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

The harbor museum's labels describe who owned its instruments but rarely how crews used them. Visitors therefore leave with an incomplete account of work at sea. The next exhibition should include demonstrations, even though these will reduce space for objects. Which claim is the main conclusion?

The labels emphasize ownership rather than use.
Visitors get an incomplete account of work at sea.
Demonstrations would reduce display space.
Displaying fewer objects would improve historical understanding.
The next exhibition should include demonstrations.

3. Practice

Critics say the station cannot justify a shelter because few people board there. But riders who avoid the exposed platform during rain are missing from those counts. The counts alone cannot establish that a shelter would serve few people. What role does the observation about riders who avoid the platform play?

It establishes that a shelter would pay for itself.
It concedes the critics' conclusion before qualifying its cost.
It explains why the recorded boardings are inaccurate counts of current boardings.
It gives an independent reason to close the station.
It identifies a reason the current counts may understate demand after a change.

4. Practice

A researcher proposes comparing identical grain samples stored in sealed and ventilated containers. A colleague points out that the ventilated containers are also cooler. The researcher revises the plan so the two groups remain at the same temperature. Which judgment best explains the revision?

It guarantees that any preservation difference is due to ventilation.
It makes the result representative of all storage sites.
It changes the outcome being measured from preservation to temperature.
It removes the need to compare the grain samples.
It reduces a competing explanation for any difference in preservation.

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.