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

Whenever this kiln overheats, its alarm sounds. The alarm sounded last night, so the kiln must have overheated. Which argument exhibits the same flaw?

Every express parcel has a tracking code. This parcel is express, so it has a code.
Every express parcel has a tracking code. This parcel has no code, so it is not express.
Some express parcels arrive late. This parcel is express, so it will arrive late.
Either a parcel is express or standard. It is not express, so it is standard.
Whenever a parcel is express, it has a tracking code. This parcel has a tracking code, so it must be express.

3. Practice

An association surveyed only members who renewed early. Most favored the new dues policy. Its chair concludes that most members favor the policy. The reasoning is most vulnerable because it:

Assumes the policy is unpopular merely because some members did not respond.
Treats a sufficient condition for renewal as a necessary one.
Concludes that every member supports what a majority supports.
Infers a causal relationship solely from a temporal sequence.
Generalizes from a subgroup whose renewal behavior may be associated with its view of the policy.

4. Practice

A critic argues that a poem cannot be valuable because it imitates earlier work. A reviewer replies that many admired paintings reinterpret earlier paintings, so derivation alone cannot settle artistic value. The reviewer proceeds primarily by:

Establishing that the poem is as valuable as the admired paintings.
Denying that the poem imitates earlier work.
Inferring that every imitation improves its source.
Explaining historically why the poem resembles a painting.
Using a comparable artistic practice to challenge a proposed sufficient reason for dismissal.

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.