Driven by direct demand from Ogden Elementary school parents, MyGuru is proud to announce a summer tutoring program for grades 1-3 in the near north area of Chicago.   Although MyGuru typically begins working with students at the high school level (and then continues on through college and beyond, helping with all standardized tests along the way), we have a variety of highly qualified tutors who are educated, trained, and certified to work with much younger students as well.

MyGuru is excited to announce that during 2011, a year that saw us work with 4 to 5 times more students than we worked with in 2010, no customer complaints were filed with the Better Business Bureau.  Now, that's not to say everyone student/tutor relationship worked perfectly; that's not the case.  However, when there wasn't a great fit, we fulfilled our promise to find a different tutor option, provide a refund, or refund unused tutoring hours.

MyGuru is excited to announce a new partnership with BenchPrep.

MyGuru is excited to announce that John Easter has joined the team as Managing Tutor for Test Prep.  John is a seasoned tutor who has been helping students prepare for the ACT, SAT, GRE, and GMAT for the past 10 years.

Every once in a while, students who work with us on GMAT prep will ask for advice about business school options (especially if they don’t do well on the GMAT). From time to time, the topic of online MBA school options will come up. MyGuru’s founders attended the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, which is a top 10 MBA school. However, we still wonder whether the extremely large investment in an MBA will ultimately be worth it. For that reason, we encourage potential online MBA school students to be extremely careful before investing large sums of money in going to an MBA school online. Our recommended options for online MBAs are those that come from well-respected schools that also offer traditional in-person programs. One such example would be Indiana University’s online MBA program.

Understanding common logical fallacies is critical to LSAT success.

Logical reasoning involves the ability to construct and deconstruct an argument. Across the four scored sections of the LSAT, you can assume that approximately half of the questions you encounter will involve logical reasoning. It is directly tested in the LSAT's logical reasoning section, and since there are two logical reasoning sections, one reading comprehension section, and one analytical reasoning section, all of which have 35 questions, 50% of the LSAT questions you see will involved logical reasoning.

But, wait, there's more to it than even that. The ability to use logic when understanding an argument is also tested indirectly in the reading comprehension section and the writing sample. Because logical reasoning is such a commonly tested skill on the LSAT, quickly identifying and understanding flawed arguments is critical to achieving a high LSAT score.

One way to understand weaknesses of an argument is knowledge of common logical fallacies.

Although the makers of the LSAT are clear that you do not need to memorize the specific terminology related to flawed arguments below, such as "Ad Hominem" or " Ad Populum," it is important to have a deep understanding of concepts like: argument, premise, assumption, and conclusion.

If you are studying for the LSAT you may consider our private LSAT tutoring. However, we also offer a weekly online small group tutoring option for where you submit logical reasoning question and have them explained to you before or during a live online LSAT review session each week.

What follows are descriptions and examples of 10 common logical fallacies, most of which are likely to appear in the logical reasoning section of the LSAT at one point or another.