The LSAT Mindset
An 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: In your courses on the LSAT, I know you cover subjects about high scorer habits. Why is it so important to learn about high scorer habits, or about habits in […]
Free LSAT Quiz: LSAT or Kanye West?
Here’s a free, short LSAT quiz: Who said it – the LSAT or Kanye West? *** Scroll down for answers: Answers: Kanye, 1, 2, 4, 7, 9. LSAT: 3, 5, 6, 8, 10
Difficult LSAT Logical Reasoning Questions
Here’s a list of several Logical Reasoning questions in LSAT PrepTests that my students often ask me to explain. The number of questions listed per PrepTest/section should not be taken as an indication of the PrepTest’s/section’s overall difficulty. The questions I’ve listed are simply those that jumped out at me when flipping through each of […]
LSAT Reading Comprehension Passages, Categorized
There are 4 Reading Comprehension passages per section. Each section contains one passage from each of the following categories: Natural Science, Social Science, Humanities, and Law.Many prep companies group the 4 RC passages per section into those categories and stop there. I’ve gone a step further and done a more comprehensive categorization of many Reading […]
Sufficient Assumption Questions | Tips and Categorization
I’ve talked in another article about how Sufficient Assumption (Justify) questions are generally based in formal logic. This time, I’m going a bit further with this idea. I have analyzed every Sufficient Assumption question from LSAT PrepTests 19-58. I found the vast majority of these questions fall into one of the following 6 categories: […]
Logical Reasoning | Sufficient Assumption (Justify) Questions
Many of you dislike formal logic Logical Reasoning questions, particularly Sufficient Assumption (aka Justify) questions. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrating my technique on a few of these questions. Unfortunately, the folks at LSAC are very strict about their intellectual property and wouldn’t allow me to post their LSAT questions online, so I’m only posting […]
Logic Made Easy by Bennett | Interview
I interviewed Dr. Deborah Bennett, author of Logic Made Easy, via email. Our discussion follows. 1. How did you first become interested in logic, and why do many people find it difficult? I first became interested in logic as a child, when my father used to bring logic puzzles to the dinner table. The whole family discussed […]