Passage - General Questions

[JSLSAT]

Hi PowerScore,

Apologies for the general question, but could someone advise on how they broke this passage down? I keep running into trouble and having trouble eliminating the questions' wrong answers. The below is extremely simplified:

I saw this as P1 - cohesiveness is good in principle and non-cohesiveness can eventually become more cohesive.

P2 - cohesiveness can be bad by resulting in Groupthink

P3 - researchers show that groupthink is detrimental, and since cohesion isn't a sufficient cause, more research should be done to figure out what causes groupthink.


Thanks so much for any advice

[Claire Horan]

Hi JSLSAT,

Your process is a good one. Now try to be more specific in the ways that you summarize paragraphs. For example, your summary of paragraph one begins with, "cohesiveness is good in principle." I would ask, "For whom? For what? What does cohesiveness result in?" Similarly, your summary of how cohesiveness relates to groupthink is not specific enough. The author is not arguing something as pointless as "cohesiveness can be good or bad." Does cohesiveness generally lead to Groupthink? In sum, you have the right idea, but your summaries need to be much more refined to really do much work for you. LSAT test-makers look for nuanced understandings of the passages. Very general understandings will usually leave you with a few contenders.

[JSLSAT]

Awesome - thank you for the help!