Exactly seven professors – Madison, Nilsson, Orozco, Paton, Robinson, Sarkis, and Togo – were hired in the years from 1989 through 1995. Each professor has one or more specialties, and any two professors hired in the same year or in consecutive years do not have a specialty in common. The professors were hired according to the following conditions:
Madison was hired in 1993, Robinson in 1991.
There is at least one specialty that Madison, Orozco, and Togo have in common.
Nilsson shares a specialty with Robinson.
Paton and Sarkis were each hired at least one year before Madison and at least one year after Nilsson.
Orozco, who shares a specialty with Sarkis, was hired in 1990.
You’ve got 8.75 minutes to figure it out…welcome to the LSAT Black Hole!
***From the October 2001 LSAT, produced by Law Services***
4 Comments
5 June 2008 at 9:58 am
I’m not even sure what the question is. Good thing I just bend metal for a living.
6 June 2008 at 9:18 am
that makes my head hurt, and I don’t know what the question is.
21 June 2008 at 7:58 am
Are you supposed to figure out who was hired in what year or the order of professors hired? Good stuff… I would stick around and work with it if I didn’t have to study for my other classes ; ). Congratulations, man.
17 July 2008 at 9:19 am
That’s not even the hard part. The terror ensues when the questions are unloaded like a ton of dead rats:
Q#1: If Orozco and Togo share the same specialty, Sarkis was not hired in a leap year, Robinson was hired exactly two years following the Great Depression, Paton and Robinson’s wives had a lesbian affair and Nilsson missed work due to his hamster’s untimely death, who will be in charge of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day pot luck lunch?
Q#2: If you do not have a migraine yet, proceed to question number three and you will.