Day 86 / 168 Week 15 of 28 Phase 3: RC Deep Dive

Strengthen, Weaken & Principle Questions in RC

🕑 ~75 min · Archetype B — RC Deep Dive

Strengthen, Weaken & Principle Questions in RC

Some RC questions ask you to strengthen, weaken, or apply a principle to an argument embedded within the passage — treat the relevant paragraph exactly like an LR stimulus once you've located it.

Switching Modes Mid-Passage

The hard part isn't the LR skill itself (you have that from Weeks 6-7) — it's correctly identifying which argument within a multi-paragraph passage the question is actually asking about. Use your paragraph map to locate the specific argument before applying LR technique to it.

Practice items on this page are curriculum-authored in LSAT style; they are not official LSAC questions. Real drilling happens on LawHub — see the assignment below.

Q1. Using Day 3's tree-canopy passage, which would most strengthen the critics' distributional concern in paragraph 3?

A. Data showing canopy gains under these programs correlate closely with which council district received planting funds, not with measured heat exposure

B. A general statement that trees are good for cities

C. Data on tree species diversity

D. A quote from a city council member

Correct answer: A. This directly supports the specific distributional claim in paragraph 3 (that funding allocation, not need, drove where canopy gains occurred) — apply LR Strengthen technique to the located argument.

LawHub drill-tier RC passage, untimed, focused on embedded-argument Strengthen/Weaken/Principle questions.

Comparative passages start tomorrow with a full dedicated day on mapping the relationship between two short passages.

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