LSAT Fun? Help!

Ok. The LSAT is now officially less than a week away and I'm still basically clueless when it comes to logic games. I'm great with reading comprehension, and my logical reasoning score is... well, ok. But then it comes to logic games, my brain shuts down. I look at them and it's like the page starts swimming and I get tense and my heart beats faster and I know I'm going into the preliminary stages of complete meltdown. This is not good.
Here's an example of the kind of thing that turns my brain to mush:

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A five-week education course consists of exactly five lectures with a different lecture given each week. No lecture is given more than once. Each lecture is delivered by a different speaker. The following conditions are true about the speakers and their lectures:

• Each speaker lectures ona philosopher in whom he or she specializes.


• No two speakers lecture on the same philosopher.


• The first week's speaker specializes in Kant, Locke, and Mill, and no other philosophers.


• The second week's speaker specializes in Kant, Locke, Mill, and Nietzsche, and no other philosophers.


• The fird week's and fourth week's speakers each specialize in Mill and Neitzsche, and no other philosophers.


• The fifth week's speaker specializes in Neitzsche, Ockham, and Plato, and no other philosophers.

The questions are largely irrelevant because the hard part is the setup, which, if you do it right, will give you all the answers. But the questions are typically along the lines of: "Which is the maximum possible number of different schedules for the five lectures in which those philosphers who are discussed are discussed in alphabetical order?"

Doesn't that sound like fun? But the real point is: How would you do this? Any tips? Hints? Great tricks that got you through LSAT logic games? Bring them on!

Posted September 29, 2002 08:49 AM | law school