How to Ace LSAT Logical Reasoning | 7 Habits
1. Analyze the stimulus for structure, NOT content.Break apart stimulus into evidence, conclusion, filler, counterpremise, etc. It’s about the stimulus’ structure and whether or not it’s valid, not the stimulus’ topic. 2. Have an “eagle eye” for details.Read EVERY word in the stimulus and answer choices carefully. Many of the wrong answer choices are […]
Mastering Logic Games
LSAT Unplugged subscriber Jacob conducted a lengthy interview with me about the strategies of top-scoring LSAT takers. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: The logic games are probably the most feared subject on the LSAT. Yet many students are able to achieve a perfect score on the logic games. So, why are they the most […]
The LSAT Curve | Test-Equating at LSAC
There’s a lot of confusion about the LSAT’s curve. The LSAT is not actually scored to a curve, but most test-takers think it is. This series is my effort to explain LSAC’s process of test-equating, raw score conversions, percentiles, and why the test isn’t actually curved. Because I dislike statistics (and because most of you […]
LSAT PrepTest Raw Score Conversion Charts
In this article, I include the LSAT PrepTest raw score conversion charts for LSAT PrepTests 1 – 74. The below pictures show the minimum number of credited responses (correctly-answered questions) that will allow you to get a particular score. At the end, I include links to some analysis of the below data. First, some notes […]
LSAT Graph / Spreadsheet: How Many Questions to Score 170 / 160
After I compile a lot of data, I like to analyze it. When I wrote the article on Raw Score Conversion Charts for LSAT PrepTests, I decided to create a graph illustrating the maximum number of questions you can miss on every LSAT PrepTest and still get a 170. (I also made one about getting a […]
Creating the LSAT’s Raw Score Conversion Chart (aka, the Curve)
Let’s suppose that, on a given exam, the 170-scorers got 12 questions wrong altogether on the 4 scored sections. That’s an average of 3 questions wrong per scored section. Let’s assume they got an average of 3 questions wrong on the games section. However, let’s say that a subset of those 170-scorers all took the […]
The Experimental Section and Difficulty of LSAT Questions
“The LSAT is equated so that a test score obtained in the current year is comparable to scores obtained in previous years.” – LSAC (Executive Summary) Test-equating requires pre-testing. After LSAC’s elves write individual LSAT questions, they compile these questions into various 35-minute sections. If you’ve taken the LSAT before, you’ve already completed one of these sections as […]
Informal Logic by Douglas Walton | Excerpt
The following excerpt about the correlation-causation fallacy is from Professor Douglas Walton’s Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach. A study published in the journal Nature on May 13, 1999, found that babies who slept with a night-light on had an increased chance of developing myopia (nearsightedness) later in life. A subsequent study, co-authored by Professor Karla Zadnik of the […]
Should You Diagram LSAT Logical Reasoning?
I interviewed Stephen Harris, former LSAT question-writer who has written hundreds of the questions that appear in your books of LSAT PrepTests. Our discussion follows. *** How important is diagramming for Logical Reasoning questions? Is it advisable? This is a great question. My take is that, with rare exception (maybe the odd matching structure item) […]
Read Question Stem or Stimulus First?
I interviewed Stephen Harris, former LSAT question-writer who has written hundreds of the questions that appear in your books of LSAT PrepTests. Our discussion follows. *** In Logical Reasoning, do you recommend reading the stimulus first or the question stem first? Always, always, always read the stem first. To begin with, the stem typically tells […]
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