WorksheetsTMPS Mock LSAT
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 10mins
Palmistry—the art of understanding an individual's present personality and predicting his or her future state through the study of the shape, size, and lines of the hands—is an unscientific technique. In a study, most palmists' assertions about the present financial status of the individuals in the sample population were found to be mere intelligent guesses.
Which one of the following is an assumption necessary to the argument?
Individuals with the same financial status usually do not have a similar personality.
There is a stable correlation between an individual's personality and his or her financial status.
Palmistry is an effective means of predicting how personalities of individuals evolve over the long term.
There are numerous other methods for understanding the personality of an individual that are more precise than palmistry.
The financial future of a person is one of the most important concerns that palmists address.
Arguing for the acquittal of his client from the charge of murdering the client's wife, the attorney reasoned that since neither the garage nor the main door of the client's home was bolted on the night of the murder, a thief must have trespassed on the home to steal valuables, and upon an unexpected confrontation with the client's wife, murdered her.
The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following?
The city administration could not find a solution to either water shortage or waterlogging problems; thus, it had to eat a humble pie and publicly accept responsibility for its lackluster approach.
Due to the work strike of railroads and the non-availability of sufficient buses during the rush hours – the only two modes of transport used by John, he may have faced a hard time commuting during the rush hours.
In a 100-meter race, two of Amy's co-participants won Silver and Bronze and she performed exceedingly well; it follows that Amy won Gold.
The evidence collected reveals that the financial fraud was executed by neither one nor all the team members. Therefore, it can be concluded that it was executed by either some team members or a third party.
In an annual test of Midland high school students, the average score of neither the boys nor the girls is more than 50; thus, the average score of the total students is not more than 50.
A test that examines people on their memory capacity for spatial layouts has placed Jason in the top 1 percentile of all test-takers. We can conclude from this that his memory capacity for things that do not involve spatial layouts will be below average.
The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?
Jason tried hard to remember spatial layouts.
Jason has a greater proclivity to remember spatial layouts than most people.
It is possible for Jason to improve, through practice and effort, his memory capacity for things that do not involve spatial layouts.
The total memory capacity of the human brain is fixed and equal for all people.
Some people have a greater memory capacity than others.
Over the next fifty years, average sea level along the Mid-Atlantic coast is projected to rise by at least 30 centimeters. Higher coastal water tables will force salty groundwater upward, replacing fresh groundwater in many low-lying farming areas. Therefore, crop yields in those areas will probably decline, and well-water supplies there will become increasingly brackish during the summer growing season.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the hydrologist's argument?
In other delta regions where sea level has risen during the past two decades, salinity levels in shallow farm wells have risen sharply, and average crop yields have fallen, after only modest increases in the water table.
Recent studies show that overall annual precipitation across the Mid-Atlantic states is likely to increase slightly over the next fifty years.
In several inland farming districts far from the coast, groundwater salinity fluctuates from year to year, but shows no long-term upward trend.
Some salt-tolerant crop varieties can maintain normal yields even when irrigated with moderately brackish water.
Farmers in parts of the Mid-Atlantic have recently begun lining irrigation ditches with plastic to reduce seepage losses.
Melissa: In the last one year, the sale of biscuits, which are one of the cheapest retail food items, has fallen in the rural areas by more than 5 percent. This means that the rural citizens of our country are becoming poorer and are not being able to afford even the cheapest food items.
Mark: Nonsense. During the last one year alone, 10 percent of the rural population of our country has migrated to urban areas for the long-term.
Which one of the following is a point of disagreement between Melissa and Mark?
The rural citizens of the country are experiencing economic stress due to falling sale of biscuits.
The sale of biscuits in rural areas has declined due to falling rural incomes.
The affordability of the cheapest food items in the rural areas increases with increased migration of people from rural to urban areas.
Migration of people from rural to urban areas adversely impacts the poorest citizens of the country.
With the migration of people from rural to urban areas, the sale of biscuits in the urban areas is bound to increase.
