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LSAT study
Tuesday, February 14 2012 at 07:00 PM
Hi mopark, I just saw your comment on my profile. I studied for the LSAT independently, which I don't think is right for everyone. It takes a lot of discipline to actually go through the books and study regularly. The most useful books that I bought were the PowerScore Bibles (Logic Games, Logic Reasoning, and Reading), some of the PowerScore workbooks (for Logic Games), and just a bunch of practice tests. As for practice tests, it helps to buy them in a bundle such as in the books "10 Actual Official LSAT Preptests", the "10 More...", "the next 10", and I think there is a newer one of those. These latter books bundle 10 tests into one book for your convenience. Otherwise, you would have to buy the particular preptests, which are available through the LSAC website and through the PowerScore website. I took maybe 30 or 40 practice tests. Other than that, I just browsed the PowerScore website and bought whatever books I thought would be useful. Granted, none of them were as useful or even necessary as the Bible books and the preptests. The key to doing well is practice and making sure you learn from your mistakes (i.e. checking your answers after you practice and understanding why you got the answer wrong and how to correct the error in future preptests). I scored about 6 points below my average on the actual thing. I can say that I could regularly score about a 166 or 167 on a preptest after all my preparation but ended up with a 161 on the test. Go figure. Hope this helps and let me know if you need additional info.
Hi mopark, I just saw your comment on my profile. I studied for the LSAT independently, which I don't think is right for everyone. It takes a lot of discipline to actually go through the books and study regularly. The most useful books that I bought were the PowerScore Bibles (Logic Games, Logic Reasoning, and Reading), some of the PowerScore workbooks (for Logic Games), and just a bunch of practice tests. As for practice tests, it helps to buy them in a bundle such as in the books "10 Actual Official LSAT Preptests", the "10 More...", "the next 10", and I think there is a newer one of those. These latter books bundle 10 tests into one book for your convenience. Otherwise, you would have to buy the particular preptests, which are available through the LSAC website and through the PowerScore website. I took maybe 30 or 40 practice tests. Other than that, I just browsed the PowerScore website and bought whatever books I thought would be useful. Granted, none of them were as useful or even necessary as the Bible books and the preptests. The key to doing well is practice and making sure you learn from your mistakes (i.e. checking your answers after you practice and understanding why you got the answer wrong and how to correct the error in future preptests). I scored about 6 points below my average on the actual thing. I can say that I could regularly score about a 166 or 167 on a preptest after all my preparation but ended up with a 161 on the test. Go figure. Hope this helps and let me know if you need additional info.