October 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 1

By referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as "purely programmatic" (line 49) in nature, the author mo...

olivias1127 on July 19, 2022

Knowing whether a question is strengthen w/ necessary or strengthen w/ sufficient

Hello! I am struggling to decipher questions that are strengthen w/ necessary premise vs. strengthen w/ sufficient premise. How can you know which type of question is being asked on the test? Are there any key words or phrases that could be helpful? Thank you!

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Emil-Kunkin on July 27, 2022

Hi Olivia,

Strength with necessary premise questions tend to ask for answer choices that would be "necessary" "required" "depends on," while sufficient assumptions questions typically ask for an answer choice that would "justify" "enable to be properly drawn" the conclusion or the argument.