LSAT 82, Logic Game 1, Question 2, LSATHacks

This is a “cannot be true” question. So we should look for something hard. Something that might violate one of the ordering rules from the setup. Here are those rules:

The main thing to notice is that M and U have to be early, and O, P, G have to be late (and S has no ordering rule).

So, it is difficult to put M or U late, or to put O, P or G early. Which answer does that?

Only A, which is CORRECT. Look what happens if we put G before M. You can combine the two ordering diagrams above:

This doesn’t work. This lists four things in a row: U, G, M, O/P. But there are only three presentations.

It is very important to think in terms of what is easy, and what is hard. That lets you predict which answer is likeliest to correct. This method would have worked just as quickly if A been E instead. It still would have been the clear choice to start with. All of the other choices do things which are easy according to the ordering rules.

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