When to diagram

Hi @MasonDees, My go to strategy that led me through my LSAT was to diagram what I needed to. LG and MBT questions I diagrammed every single time, as those are just too involved and complex to keep things straight in your head. As for the rest of the exam, my little test was always simple: can I keep this stuff straight in my head? Yes? No need to bother diagramming. No? Diagram. The biggest time waster is, ironically, sitting there contemplating whether or not you're gonna write stuff out. This is where my test really helped, it made the decision process super simple. And of course, this applies to parallel reasoning questions as well (and FPR). Hope this helps!

Yes, thanks!

@Naryan, for best practice, would you recommend in flawed questions like this, to identify the proper conclusion if possible? It most definitely would have helped choose the correct answer here, but is that consistent with others?

I wouldn't say we need to identify the proper conclusion per se, but we should identify the flaw. By identifying the flaw, we could pretty quickly then work out how to fix it, but that isn't what this question type is asking us to do. We're just looking for the same flaw in an answer chioce.