Retaking Manhattan LSAT Logic Challenges

[Acing LSAT]

Hi,

many people (including Manhattan LSAT) suggest that to improve on games it is best to replay one game many times as opposed to playing many games.

I have been doing this and find it to be helpful. I am wondering if you suggest that for the Manhattan LSAT Logic Challenges too?

The reason I ask I that although they are a very good work out for certain features of the games I sense that they have a different style than real LSAT games. So I was thinking that if I replayed them they would effect my skill set in games and I would lose some of my attuneness to real game features.

[ohthatpatrick]

Great question.

In part, this might be a moot point since the Manhattan Logic Games, once you submit your answers, always show your answers.

You might be able to get TechSupport to clear your answers (I'm not sure if there's any other way).

If you can't do that, then the effectiveness of replaying the game is definitely somewhat compromised by the fact that the correct answer is staring you in the face.

In terms of the Manhattan games straying from true LSAT style and thus getting the wrong flavor in your mind-tongue (yeah, I'm sticking with that painfully stretched metaphor), I think you have a partially legitimate concern.

Here's why I say partial:
For about 70-80% of the games we have on there, I could tell you specifically which real LSAT game we ripped off. So for those, in which we basically scramble the names/rules/ingredients just enough to elude copyright infringement, I think you still have a pretty darn realistic LSAT game setup.

However, some of the game setups are a little more exotic or invented. While these are meant to represent the various "curveball" or "one-off" games that show up from time to time, they are less likely to be a faithful replica of the LSAT experience.

Finally, some of the questions we put with the games are not entirely realistic. (A minority, for sure, but maybe 1 question per game on average).

For instance, there are a bunch of questions in which we ask for how many possible arrangements there are, and sometimes the correct answer is 5 or more.

I don't think I've ever seen a real LSAT question exceed 4 for that type of task.

In summary, here's my advice:
since you probably won't be able to clear your old answers easily
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since some of the questions we write are just meant to challenge your mind w/o being totally realistic
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since most of the game setups are pretty closely spiraled from real games
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I would suggest just setting up our games multiple times and then checking the forum explanations to see if your setup was effective and as thorough as you'd like it to be (you certainly don't need to always get every deduction, but sensing when it might be worthwhile to set up frames vs. not is a very important intuition/skill to develop).

It seems like you probably already have real LSAT games still left to do, though, so I would prioritize doing those multiple times before rinsing & repeating with ours.

Good luck!