LSAT India 2017 Sample Papers

LSAT India 2017 is scheduled to be held on May 21. The exam is conducted in India by Pearson VUE on behalf of Law School Admission Council (LSAC).

LSAT India exam is divided into four sections – Analytical Reasoning, First logical Reasoning, Second Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. Aspirants are given 35 minutes to solve questions in each section of the entrance exam.

The test paper for this law entrance exam comprises of questions in multiple choice format. Each question consists of four or maximum five options from which aspirants have to select the right answer.

LSAT India 2017 is a paper-pencil test and aspirants have to mark their answers with a HB pencil on an OMR sheet.

In order to help aspirants develop an idea of the type of questions asked in the exam, we have compiled some sample questions for LSAT India 2017.

Q 1: Photovoltaic power plants produce electricity from sunlight. As a result of astonishing recent technological advances, the cost of producing electric power at photovoltaic power plants, allowing for both construction and operating costs, is one-tenth of what it was 20 years ago, whereas the corresponding cost for traditional plants, which burn fossil fuels, has increased. Thus, photovoltaic power plants offer a less expensive approach to meeting demand for electricity than do traditional power plants.

The conclusion of the argument is properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?

a) The cost of producing electric power at traditional plants has increased over the past 20 years.

b) Twenty years ago, traditional power plants were producing 10 times more electric power than were photovoltaic plants.

c) None of the recent technological advances in producing electric power at photovoltaic plants can be applied to producing power at traditional plants.

d) Twenty years ago, the cost of producing electric power at photovoltaic plants was less than 10 times the cost of producing power at traditional plants.

e) The cost of producing electric power at photo-voltaic plants is expected to decrease further, while the cost of producing power at traditional plants is not expected to decrease.  

Q2. Some legislators refuse to commit public funds for new scientific research if they cannot be assured that the research will contribute to the public welfare. Such a position ignores the lessons of experience. Many important contributions to the public welfare that resulted from scientific research were never predicted as potential outcomes of that research. Suppose that a scientist in the early twentieth century had applied for public funds to study molds: who would have predicted that such research would lead to the discovery of antibiotics—one of the greatest contributions ever made to the public welfare?

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the argument?

a) The committal of public funds for new scientific research will ensure that the public welfare will be enhanced.

b) If it were possible to predict the general outcome of a new scientific research effort, then legislators would not refuse to commit public funds for that effort.

c) Scientific discoveries that have contributed to the public welfare would have occurred sooner if public funds had been committed to the research that generated those discoveries.

d) In order to ensure that scientific research is directed toward contributing to the public welfare, legislators must commit public funds to new scientific research.

e) Lack of guarantees that new scientific research will contribute to the public welfare is not sufficient reason for legislators to refuse to commit public funds to new scientific research.

Q3. A company employee generates a series of five-digit product codes in accordance with the following rules:

The codes use the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and no others.

Each digit occurs exactly once in any code.

The second digit has a value exactly twice that of the first digit.

The value of the third digit is less than the value of the fifth digit.

Any of the following pairs could be the third and fourth digits, respectively, of an acceptable product code, EXCEPT:

a) 0, 1

b) 3, 4

c) 1, 0

d) 3, 0

Q4. Exactly three films—Gambhir, Haseen, and Lehenga—are shown during a film club’s festival held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Each film is shown at least once during the festival but never more than once on a given day. On each day at least one film is shown. Films are shown one at a time. The following conditions apply:

• On Thursday Haseen is shown, and no film is shown after it on that day.
• On Friday either Gambhir or Lehenga, but not both, is shown, and no film is shown after it on that day.
• On Saturday either Gambhir or Haseen, but not both, is shown, and no film is shown after it on that day.

If Lehenga is never shown again during the festival once Gambhir is shown, then which one of the following is the maximum number of film showings that could occur during the festival?

a) three

b) four

c) five

d) six

Q5. A cruise line is scheduling seven week-long voyages for the ship Azad. Each voyage will occur in exactly one of the first seven weeks of the season: weeks 1 through 7. Each voyage will be to exactly one of four destinations: Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, or Trinidad. Each destination will be scheduled for at least one of the weeks. The following conditions apply to Azad’s schedule:

• Jamaica will not be its destination in week 4.
• Trinidad will be its destination in week 7.
• Azad will make exactly two voyages to Martinique, and at least one voyage to Guadeloupe will occur in some week between those two voyages.
• Guadeloupe will be its destination in the week preceding any voyage it makes to Jamaica.
• No destination will be scheduled for consecutive weeks.

Which one of the following must be true about Azad’s schedule of voyages?

a) Azad makes a voyage to Martinique either in week 2 or else in week 3.

b) Azad makes a voyage to Guadeloupe either in week 1 or else in week 2.

c) Azad makes at most two voyages to Guadeloupe.

d) Azad makes at most two voyages to Jamaica.  

6. Driver: My friends say I will one day have an accident because I drive my sports car recklessly. But I have done some research, and apparently minivans and larger sedans have very low accident rates compared to sports cars. So trading my sports car in for a minivan would lower my risk of having an accident.

The reasoning in the driver’s argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that this argument:

a) relies on a sample that is too narrow

b) infers a cause from a mere correlation

c) misinterprets evidence that a result is likely as evidence that the result is certain

d) mistakes a condition sufficient for bringing about a result for a condition necessary for doing so

e) relies on a source that is probably not well-informed

Q7. Philosopher: Nations are not literally persons; they have no thoughts or feelings, and, literally speaking, they perform no actions. Thus they have no moral rights or responsibilities. But no nation can survive unless many of its citizens attribute such rights and responsibilities to it, for nothing else could prompt people to make the sacrifices national citizenship demands. Obviously, then, a nation _______.

Which one of the following most logically completes the philosopher’s argument?

a) cannot continue to exist unless something other than the false belief that the nation has moral rights motivates its citizens to make sacrifices

b) cannot survive unless many of its citizens have some beliefs that are literally false

c) is not worth the sacrifices that its citizens make on its behalf

d) can never be a target of moral praise or blame

Questions 8-12

Shanti interviews exactly five out of a total of seven job applicants—Harsh, Imran, Pooja, Nasruddin, Prateek, Rohit, and Tarun. She interviews the five one at a time, once each. Interviewing must meet the following conditions:

• Pooja is interviewed second or third.
• Nasruddin or Tarun is interviewed last.
• Harsh, if interviewed, is interviewed first.
• Imran is interviewed immediately after Rohit if both are interviewed.
• Prateek is interviewed immediately after Rohit if both are interviewed.
• Tarun is interviewed immediately after Nasruddin if both are interviewed.

Q 8. hich one of the following could be a complete and accurate list of the applicants interviewed, listed in the order in which they are interviewed?

a) Harsh, Pooja, Imran, Nasruddin, Tarun

b) Harsh, Rohit, Prateek, Pooja, Tarun

c) Imran, Harsh, Pooja, Prateek, Tarun

d) Prateek, Rohit, Pooja, Nasruddin, Tarun

Q9. Which one of the following is a complete and accurate list of the applicants each of whom must be interviewed?

a) Harsh

b) Pooja

c) Harsh, Pooja

d) Harsh, Pooja, Tarun

Q10. If Imran is interviewed fourth, then which one of the following must be true?

a) Harsh is interviewed.

b) Prateek is interviewed.

c) Rohit is interviewed.

d) Nasruddin is interviewed last.

Q11. If Harsh is interviewed first and PrateekQ2. is interviewed second, each of the following could be true EXCEPT:

a) Imran is interviewed fourth.

b) Rohit is interviewed fourth.

c) Nasruddin is interviewed last.

d) Both Nasruddin and Tarun are interviewed.

Q12. Suppose the condition that Nasruddin or Tarun is interviewed last is replaced with the condition that neither Nasruddin nor Tarun is interviewed last. If all the other initial conditions remain in effect, then which one of the following must be true if Rohit is interviewed last?

a) Exactly one of Imran and Prateek is interviewed.

b) Exactly one of Nasruddin and Tarun is interviewed.

c) Imran is interviewed fourth.

d) Tarun is interviewed fourth.

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