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Entry checkpoint: first-look questions

Try this optional sample before the lessons; use mistakes to choose a starting point.

Paper packet. Every task here also exists on screen, where it is checked automatically; answers written on paper are not assessed by Nydus. When you are back at a device, enter your answers there.

1. What you will learn

Use this optional checkpoint before reading worked examples. It samples only a few skills and does not decide placement. Record your initial answer and confidence before submitting; use feedback to choose lessons to study. Treat later attempts at these same questions as review, not new assessment evidence. No result converts to an LSAT scaled score.

2. Practice

A district introduced free breakfast, and late arrivals fell. The superintendent attributes the decrease to breakfast. That same month, the district also moved the start of school later. Which finding most strengthens the superintendent's explanation?

• Parents liked having both changes introduced together.
• Breakfast participation was higher than lunch participation.
• Late arrivals were counted with the same software throughout.
• The district had considered breakfast the previous year.
• Schools that moved their start time but did not offer breakfast had no comparable decline in late arrivals.

3. Practice

A publisher found that readers of its short email summaries renewed subscriptions more often than readers who did not open them. It concludes that sending summaries causes more renewals. Which fact most weakens the causal inference?

• Some readers who opened summaries did not renew.
• Preparing the summaries requires staff time.
• Renewing readers also valued the full articles.
• Summaries covered several different topics.
• Readers with the strongest prior commitment were much more likely to open the summaries.

4. Practice

A shop expects replacing its help desk with a searchable guide to reduce total support costs. A guide lookup costs less than a staff interaction. Which question most helps evaluate that expectation?

• Do customers prefer alphabetical or topical headings?
• Are guides common among larger shops?
• How many years has the current desk operated?
• Will the guide describe the shop's newest products?
• How often will an unsuccessful lookup lead to a staff interaction as well?

5. What you can do now

Keep a record of the first attempt, the error explanation and the lesson to revisit. Repeated questions are review rather than fresh evidence.