October 2010 LSAT Section 3 Question 2

Since there is no survival value in an animal's having an organ that is able to function when all its other organs ha...

natasha on August 18, 2020

How to identify the conclusion of an argument?

In the second example, I was sure that the topic sentence may have been the conclusion being that the argument is centered around the likeliness of Mars being inhabitable. However, you chose another source for the conclusion, which is was the research being done to concur with the argument. So my question is how do you identify the conclusion (main point) of an argument?

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on September 17, 2020

I had this same issue

Yanelle on October 12, 2020

I also had the same issue. I thought it was the topic sentence as well

on January 13, 2022

Me too..

Jordan-Schlinger on January 17, 2022

Hey guys! So a great way to figure out the main point is to see what everything is building up to. What is all the evidence supporting? What are they trying to argue be it with facts or symbolism? That will be the main conclusion. A way I like to "test" the main conclusion is to add the word "Thus," before it and then move it to the end. If it makes sense, then it is likely the main conclusion. Thus is a keyword- words like therefore, thus, it follows, and the like indicate that a conclusion is incoming!

I hope this helped if you have further questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks,

Jordan