> A history exam might ask a question like "When was the US Constitution ratified?" Suppose you pick answer "(a) 1776". Then you look at the answer key and you see that the correct answer was actually "(b) 1789".
This is great. My tip: don’t spend money on LSAT prep (unless you have no impulse control and can’t learn from a book). Just take practice tests, and when you get an answer wrong, carefully articulate exactly why each of the wrong answers was wrong and the right answer was correct. At least when I took it (17 years ago now) there was always a clearly right answer and three clearly wrong answers. I’ve never seen a single LSAT where that wasn’t the case. During the test you should be able to not only identify the correct answer, but articulate in your head why each other answer is clearly wrong.
Completely agree. Iny experience commercial prep was not of the same quality and the actual LSAT questions and doing actual true historical LSAT practice tests was cheap and effective.
Thanks! And agreed. There is exactly one right answer. And you can learn a lot about the test by figuring out why it was right and the wrong ones are wrong. But I say that with the caveat that it's not "clear" for everyone. I often had students who came up with very convincing but completely incorrect reasons for why they thought the right answer was right.
This was because of a lawsuit brought by a blind student. IMO they should let students who are blind, and perhaps dyslexic, have an accommodation that skips this section and grades them just on the remaining sections. Getting rid of the section for everyone seems like an extreme reaction, and may have contributed to the LSAT inflation in recent years.
This looks fantastic! I work in test preparation myself (though not for the LSAT) and this ticks all the boxes for the best approaches. I also really appreciate it being direct and opinionated without the obnoxious tendency of a lot of guides to denigrate alternatives.
Speaking of these standardised tests, I think it's ridiculous that even for someone like Elon Musk, who read for up to 10 hours a day for most of his of pre college days and learned how to build rockets with the use of books och instruction manuals, only scored 730 on the Math section and 670 on the Verbal section for a total composite score of 1400. The fact that he couldn't get higher score means something is wrong with these tests. They are mirroring a very narrow frequency of aptitude.
the only secret to the LSAT is to grind practice tests. back in the day (~10 years ago) i torrented all the available tests (~70) and all the practice books. I did one of the books to learn the "tricks" and then just took all the tests. scored a 178 (and then never went to law school lol).
This works if you're already smart. Have seen plenty of people grind through all the tests while barely improving their score or ending well below their goals.
Don't bother with the writing section. Leave it blank, turn in your test and leave early. The proctor might say you can't do that but you can. Nobody cares about it. No one ever has. It's only there to deflect criticism from LSAC.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 38.9 ms ] threadWasn't the constitution ratified in 1788?
In 2024 they dropped the analytic reasoning section. Now it just tests logical reasoning and reading comprehension.