This question seems to give quite a lot of students trouble. So I am posting a quick solution of how to attack this question from LSAT prep test 83, in section 1 of the Logical Reasoning section of the test.

Question 23:

Line Reference: The traditional view of the Roman Emperor Caligula

Strengthen: Strengthening an argument means to cement the connection between evidence and conclusion. In other words, it means to make the conclusion more likely to follow from the evidence.

Conclusion: Some modern historians do not think that Roman Emperor Caligula was a cruel and insane tyrant

Evidence: There is not a lot of documentation of the alleged cruelty and the histories that we do have were written by his enemies

Analysis: Lack of evidence (documents) does not prove something did not occur. Perhaps the documents of his cruelty were destroyed by the Emperor? However, we are looking to strengthen this argument and help prove this Emperor was not necessarily cruel. So, the right answer could eliminate ideas that would hurt the argument (disprove point I made above). But, they just have to be any piece of evidence that would make it less likely this Emperor was cruel. Often strengtheners can be hard to predict

A) Having less documentation from his era than others does not help our argument. If anything, it would weaken it – it could be pointing out that he destroyed documents! This is likely a weakener

B) We do not know how the people who lived under this Emperor viewed him for sure. So this point would not help or hurt the argument – it is just irrelevant

C) CORRECT – if the cruel acts assigned to this Emperor are almost identical to the acts assigned to other rulers that are labelled a tyrant then it makes it less likely the Emperor actually did these things. It increases the chance that the alleged acts are actually made up, if documents all say the same thing about everyone. This is increasing the chance that all these documents are suspect if they say the same stories about everyone. Feels more like a story than fact. Keep in mind, this is a weak strengthener – it definitely does not prove he definitively was not a tyrant, but that is okay. A strengthener only has to increase the chance the conclusion is true by 1%

D) If the documents believe this Emperor was crueller than most that would weaken the likelihood that he was not a tyrant

E) It does not matter if there are worse tyrants out there today. Just because someone is more cruel than you does not make you nice.

Many people are wondering how they convert their 3 section LSAT test into a percentile. So, instead of the test being out of 100 or 101 it is now out of 75 or 76. So the equivalent percentiles are listed below (this is from the May 2020 LSAT Flex) – so it would likely vary a bit based on your particular LSAT but this will give you a good idea of what percentile you are scoring in on your practice tests:

Reported Score	Lowest Raw Score	Highest Raw Score
180	75	76
179	74	74
178	**	**
177	73	73
176	**	**
175	72	72
174	71	71
173	70	70
172	69	69
171	68	68
170	67	67
169	66	66
168	65	65
167	64	64
166	63	63
165	61	61
164	60	60
163	58	59
162	57	57
161	55	56
160	54	54
159	52	53
158	51	51
157	49	50
156	48	48
155	46	47
154	45	45
153	43	44
152	42	42
151	41	41
150	39	40
149	38	38
148	37	37
147	36	36
146	34	35
145	33	33
144	32	32
143	31	31
142	30	30
141	29	29
140	28	28
139	27	27
138	26	26
137	**	**
136	25	25
135	24	24
134	23	23
133	**	**
132	22	22
131	21	21
130	**	**
129	20	20
128	**	**
127	19	19
126	**	**
125	18	18
124	**	**
123	17	17
122	**	**
121	16	16
120	0	15