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The Analytical Reasoning Section of the LSAT

The Analytical Reasoning section of the LSAT evaluates your ability to understand relationships between a group of items. This section is designed to test whether you're capable of analyzing relationships, a skill that will be needed to solve legal problems.

The 35-minute Analytical Reasoning section consists of 4 passages that each describe the relationship between a set of items. Each passage is followed by 5 to 7 questions that ask you to draw conclusions based on the relationships explained in the passage.

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