What should I be memorizing? Forum

[Lying Lawyer]

I am going through the PS Bibles and there is a lot of info here. Just finished logic games. How much should I be memorizing? Should I be memorizing the types of games or just focus on knowing if it's a grouping, linear or combo game and focus on what group works best as my base and then making the deductions. I've been drilling with PTs 1-40 by LG group. I've done plenty of each group and still have more. I've done plenty of LGs where I feel comfortable. Whatever mistakes I make are more a stupid mistake from overlooking stuff, which I know I have to pay closer attention to. Even though I'm starting LR I'm going to do some occasionally to "stay fresh"

I also have the LR by group. I have PT's 1-40. For LR I know that conditional reasoning indicators are a must. Should I be trying to memorize conclusion and premise indicators too? Anything else? I'm saving tests from 40 and on for actual practice tests and for doing sections during the week to keep me in shape for Saturdays.

[ilikebaseball]

memorize nothing. seriously. just attain good question attacking habits from your study materials, drill them until its second nature, and there ya go.

[Gray]

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[Lying Lawyer]

memorize nothing.

Agreed. Trying to remember the name of a type of game will never be helpful. Understanding how to respond to the various questions types will.

So focus more on things like identifying the conclusion when there's one and when you have for example a must be true question, know that outside info that isn't a logical result of the statement is wrong.

[BillPackets]

you don't need to be able to label games, maybe loosely at best (i.e. grouping, distribution, ordering). you just need to understand how to diagram a game given the rules, which it's typically pretty apparent with ordering and grouping, and with distribution there is usually one group that is being assigned to another group, and i usually keep that group that has things being assigned to it static and distribute the other game pieces.

[BillPackets]

memorize nothing.

Agreed. Trying to remember the name of a type of game will never be helpful. Understanding how to respond to the various questions types will.

So focus more on things like identifying the conclusion when there's one and when you have for example a must be true question, know that outside info that isn't a logical result of the statement is wrong.

identifying the conclusion is like step 1 in LR. always identify the conclusion. then the premise. then the flaw. if you cannot identify those three things in every question that contains such an argument you will have a very hard time getting answers right

[Colonel_funkadunk]

memorize nothing.

[chimera]

You might want to memorize or understand some things like vocabulary that signals a conditional relationship (Whoever=sufficient, ect) and the relationship between some, all, and most.

This is small stuff though, I agree with the above that the best use of your time is forming the right habits when approaching questions.