LSAT 144 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q5

LR Question 5 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Most people who have taken a seminar for building organizational skills…

QUESTION TYPE: Paradox

PARADOX: People who take an organizational seminar tend to become more organized, but they usually don’t become more efficient.

ANALYSIS: We associate organization with efficiency, but they’re not the same thing. I knew someone who carefully planned every day, and got nothing done.

The best answer will show that the seminar somehow causes people not to gain efficiency.

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1. ‘Some’ is a very vague word, it can refer to one person out of 150,000. Not a useful word in most cases. One person’s case can’t explain what happens to an entire group.
2. The question talked about people who do take organizational seminars. This answer talks about people who do not take seminars.
3. This just tells us a random fact about people who take organizational seminars. It’s not clear how management training relates to efficiency.
4. This might explain why those people took organizational seminars – those workers knew that they were poorly organized. But this answer adds no information about efficiency.
5. CORRECT. Efficiency refers to how much you can get done in a certain amount of time. This answer helps explain why better organizational skills don’t make you more efficient: you now have to spend a lot of time organizing yourself. So you have less time to actually get things done.