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Core Skills Drill Pack

Ten medium-difficulty questions across every major question type. The workhorse pack for regular practice.

Core Skills Drill Pack

10 original LSAT-style questions. Work at your own pace. Answer key on the last page.

Question 1

The new drug must be safe. It was approved by regulators, and regulators never approve unsafe drugs.

The reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism because it

  1. A. ignores the drug's effectiveness
  2. B. assumes regulators are infallible, which is the very point at issue
  3. C. attacks the regulators personally
  4. D. confuses safety with effectiveness
  5. E. relies on too small a sample of regulators

Answer: ______

Question 2

A university found that students who attended review sessions scored higher on finals. Administrators credit the sessions.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the administrators' claim?

  1. A. Review sessions are voluntary.
  2. B. The students who attended were already the strongest students before the sessions.
  3. C. Attendance was recorded accurately.
  4. D. Within each prior-achievement band, attendees outscored non-attendees by similar margins.
  5. E. Finals are difficult.

Answer: ______

Question 3

A hotel chain claims its new booking site increased reservations, pointing to a 15 percent rise since launch.

Which of the following, if true, most weakens the claim?

  1. A. The site is easy to use.
  2. B. The rise coincided with the start of peak travel season, and the same seasonal rise occurred the previous year.
  3. C. Some customers prefer calling.
  4. D. The site cost little to build.
  5. E. Reservations are important to hotels.

Answer: ______

Question 4

Lowering the speed limit will save lives, because higher speeds make crashes deadlier.

The argument depends on the assumption that

  1. A. drivers obey speed limits
  2. B. crashes currently happen
  3. C. lowering the limit will actually reduce driving speeds
  4. D. speed limits are currently too high
  5. E. police enforce speed limits

Answer: ______

Question 5

Most of the committee members voted for the proposal. The chair voted against it.

Which of the following must be true?

  1. A. The chair is not a committee member.
  2. B. The proposal passed.
  3. C. At least two members other than the chair voted for the proposal.
  4. D. The chair's vote does not count.
  5. E. Every member voted.

Answer: ______

Question 6

The project will finish on time. All remaining tasks are minor, and the team has two weeks.

Which of the following, if assumed, guarantees the conclusion?

  1. A. The team is motivated.
  2. B. Minor tasks always take less than two weeks for this team, and no new tasks will appear.
  3. C. The deadline is flexible.
  4. D. The team has finished early before.
  5. E. Minor tasks are easy.

Answer: ______

Question 7

Tara: "The new mall will revive downtown because shoppers will come for the stores and stay for the restaurants." Umar: "Shoppers may come, but the mall's chain stores will drive local shops out of business, so downtown will be worse off."

Tara and Umar disagree about whether

  1. A. shoppers will visit the mall
  2. B. the mall will, on balance, help downtown
  3. C. restaurants benefit from nearby stores
  4. D. local shops matter
  5. E. the mall will have chain stores

Answer: ______

Question 8

Ancient peoples built the pyramids without modern tools, so modern claims that the task is difficult must be wrong.

The reasoning is flawed because it

  1. A. ignores how much time and labor the ancients used
  2. B. attacks modern engineers
  3. C. confuses pyramids with other structures
  4. D. relies on ancient texts
  5. E. assumes the pyramids were built quickly

Answer: ______

Question 9

A town replaced its streetlights with LEDs and saw nighttime accidents fall 12 percent. The mayor credits the LEDs.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the mayor's claim?

  1. A. LEDs use less electricity.
  2. B. The drop was largest on the darkest roads, where better lighting matters most.
  3. C. Residents like the new lights.
  4. D. LEDs last longer than old bulbs.
  5. E. The town also repaved several roads that year.

Answer: ______

Question 10

Employees with standing desks take fewer sick days, so standing desks improve health.

Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument?

  1. A. Standing desks are adjustable.
  2. B. Health-conscious employees are both more likely to request standing desks and less likely to get sick.
  3. C. Sick days are costly for employers.
  4. D. Some employees dislike standing desks.
  5. E. Standing all day can cause foot pain.

Answer: ______

Answer Key

  1. 1. B — The argument assumes regulators never err, but that assumption is exactly what a skeptic would question. It begs the question.
  2. 2. D — D rules out the self-selection worry in B: even comparing equally strong students, the sessions helped. That is the key alternative killed.
  3. 3. B — Seasonality explains the rise without the new site. The "since launch" timing is a coincidence.
  4. 4. C — A lower limit only saves lives if speeds actually fall. If everyone keeps speeding, the deadliness of crashes never changes.
  5. 5. C — "Most" means more than half. Even on a three-person committee, most means at least two, and the chair voted no, so at least two others voted yes.
  6. 6. B — B locks in both the time estimate and the "no surprises" condition. With those guaranteed, on-time completion follows.
  7. 7. B — Umar grants the foot-traffic point but disputes the net effect. The disagreement is the bottom line for downtown.
  8. 8. A — Doing something with huge labor over decades does not make it easy. The argument ignores the cost in time and workers.
  9. 9. B — The effect is strongest where the mechanism (better lighting) should matter most. That dose-response pattern is strong causal evidence.
  10. 10. B — A third factor, health consciousness, explains both the desk choice and the sick days. The desks may do nothing.

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Last updated October 12, 2026