LSAT 84, Logic Game 1, Question 1, LSATHacks

This question asks who can’t go in the first four spots. To solve this, look at the diagram and see who has many lines before it. Here’s the main diagram, who has the most diagrams to the left of it?

It’s L! A is CORRECT.

This is a skill you should practice doing until it is second nature. Here’s a skeleton diagram which only includes the elements to the left of L with a line. This is what I see in my head when I look at the main diagram and focus on L:

Note that if you picked M, your error was looking at a variable that was merely on the right of the diagram. It’s the lines that matter.

As for R, V and Z, they’re all equivalent: only S and O come before. Equivalent answers can’t be correct.

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