LSAT 41, Logical Reasoning II, Q25, LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: Most serious students are happy students, and most serious…

QUESTION TYPE: Must be True

ANALYSIS: While you can never combine two “some” statements, you can combine two “most” statements. This can be tricky, so I’ll give an easy example. Suppose we both work shifts at a restaurant:

1. “I work most weekdays” (e.g., at least 3 of five).
2. “You work most weekdays” (e.g., at least 3 of five).

No matter what schedules we have, we will always work together on at least one day (try it). So we can say: “Some days we work together.” This is true of all “most” statements with the same term.

So since we know two things about “most serious students,” we can conclude that “some serious students are happy students and go to graduate school.”

We also know that they will be overworked, because everyone at graduate school is overworked. So “some happy students are overworked.” (Answer Choice B)

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1. Doubtful. We only know most serious students are happy. But it’s likely that non-serious, overworked students are miserable.
2. CORRECT. Yes. See the above discussion.
3. This is easy to disprove. Just find a non-serious student, and double their workload. Presto, you’ve got a non-serious, overworked student…No need to over-think this.
4. Hard to say, the stimulus doesn’t tell us anything about unhappy students.
5. This is only true of serious students who are in grad school.

Recap: The question begins with “Most serious students are happy students, and most serious”. It is a Must be True question. Learn how to master LSAT MBT questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.

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