Announcing *new* LSAT course packages

For those of you who just got your October LSAT scores - congratulations! I hope you did great.

If it didn't go so well, sorry to hear it! Either way, I wrote these articles to help you figure out next steps:

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Announcing *new* LSAT course packages

As many of you already know, I launched LSAT course packages earlier this summer as part of my mission to make quality LSAT prep more affordable.

Although I released the first versions of my courses a few years ago, the packages are something new I tested in the lead-up to the October LSAT - I wanted to know whether it would help you to get the best resources I've created in convenient bundles.

I heard from many of you immediately after the October LSAT, and your answer was an emphatic "yes." And, after today's score release, many of you told me that, without a doubt, the packages helped you improve your LSAT scores.

So, now, I'm adding even more to each of the course packages. 

I want to do everything I can to help you get a top LSAT score and get into the law school of your dreams. 

One request I've been getting from many of you is to help with the law school admission process. In particular, you've been asking for help writing law school personal statements that will stand out. 

While private admission consulting is always an option, I understand that not everyone can afford that, and your law school personal statement is the most important factor in admissions when your numbers don't reflect your true abilities.

So, for the first time ever, I'm adding access to exclusive law school admissions resources to The Supreme package.

I'm also offering all of them with a 100% money-back guarantee.

Try the course package of your choice without risking a thing. Show me you did all the work. If you don't love it, email me within 7 days, and I'll give you a full and complete refund of your course enrollment. I'll even eat the credit-card fees.

I've made these literally risk-free to try.

Why would I offer a guarantee when I don't have to? I can offer this because I've rigorously tested my materials with thousands of students. I know they work, and I want this to be a no-brainer for you.

Sign up now to improve your LSAT score today.

-Steve

P.S. The course packages are 100% risk-free. That means you can try one, then decide if it's right for you. If you don't love it, just show me you did the work, and I'll refund 100% of your money. But I'm confident these will help you improve your LSAT score and get into the law school of your dreams.

Law School Application Process FAQ

LSAT Blog Law School Application Process FAQ
The LSAT Blog post contains links to many lists answering several law school application process FAQ.

Elisabeth Steele Hutchison, Director of Admissions at the William S. Richardson School of Law, compiled a TON of useful information to help you this admission cycle. Bookmark this page so you'll be able to easily access everything in the future.

LSAT Diary: September LSAT Update

LSAT Blog Diary September LSAT Update
This LSAT Diary is from Sharon, who took the September 2014 LSAT. Below, she shares her LSAT studying experience.

If you want to be in LSAT Diaries, please email me at LSATUnplugged@gmail.com. (You can be in LSAT Diaries whether you've taken the exam already or not.)

Please thank Sharon for sharing her story below in the comments!

LSAT Course Packages - Price Guarantee

For those of you who took the October LSAT - congratulations! I hope you did great.

If it didn't go so well, sorry to hear it! I wrote these two articles to help you figure out next steps:

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LSAT course packages - price guarantee

As many of you already know, I launched LSAT course packages earlier this summer as part of my mission to make quality LSAT prep more affordable.

Although I released the first versions of my courses a few years ago, the packages are something new I tested in the lead-up to the October LSAT - I wanted to know whether it would help you to get the best resources I've created in convenient bundles.

I just heard from many of you who took the October LSAT, and your answer has been an emphatic "yes."

You told me that, without a doubt, the packages helped you improve your LSAT scores.

So, now, I'm offering all the course packages with a 100% money-back guarantee. 

Try the LSAT course package of your choice without risking a thing. Show me you did all the work. If you don't love it, email me within 30 days, and I'll give you a full and complete refund of your course enrollment. I'll even eat the credit-card fees.

I've made these literally risk-free to try.

Why would I offer a guarantee when I don't have to? I can offer this because I've rigorously tested my materials with thousands of students. I know they work, and I want this to be a no-brainer for you.

Sign up now to improve your LSAT score today.


-Steve

P.S. The LSAT course packages are 100% risk-free. That means you can try one, then decide if it's right for you. If you don't love it, just show me you did the work, and I'll refund 100% of your money. But I'm confident these will help you improve your LSAT score.

Get started now.

September 2014 LSAT Score Release Dates

LSAT Blog September 2014 LSAT Score Release Dates
UPDATE: September 2014 LSAT scores are being released via email as of Monday, October 20, but some test-takers are having trouble logging on to LSAC.org

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Good luck to everyone taking the September 2014 LSAT!

The September 2014 LSAT scores / results are scheduled to be released via email by Wednesday, October 22, 2014, so you'll have to wait for your LSAT score.

However, the scores usually come out a bit earlier than scheduled.

Let's look at the trend over the past several years (click to enlarge):

LSAT Blog Interview: Avoid LSAT Test Day Anxiety

LSAT Blog Interview Avoid LSAT Test Day Anxiety
LSAT Blog reader Jacob recently conducted a lengthy interview with me about the strategies of top-scoring LSAT takers.

Here's an excerpt from the interview:

I know a few students who scored close to 180 on practice exams. Then, on the LSAT, they plummeted 10 points. 

How can one make sure the scores they’re getting on their practice exams are a real indicator of what they'll get on the actual exam?

Law School Admission Trends Interview

LSAT Blog Law School Admission Trends
Ann Levine is a law school admission consultant who opened Law School Expert in 2004, and has been blogging about law school application issues since 2006. She is the author of two law school guidebooks: The Law School Admission Game: Play Like an Expert, and The Law School Decision Game.

I recently interviewed her about recent trends and changes in law school admissions. Our discussion follows.


LSAT Reading Comprehension Comparative Passage Explanation - Narrative


I've written explanations for over 1,000 LSAT questions and joined forces with other awesome LSAT tutors to write even more. Below, I'm including a small free sample of the Reading Comprehension explanations just so you can see what they're like.

Get the full LSAT PrepTest explanations for LSAT PrepTest 52 (and TONS of other exams) HERE.


These are just for the second Reading Comprehension passage of LSAT PrepTest 52:



Section 4 (Questions 7-12)

These are comparative reading passages. It is important to focus on the general topic of both, the specific topic of each, and how they relate.


Passage A opens with a discussion of the joy of reading in general, and contrasts this with the lack of joy created by academic historians. The author follows with a colorful description of how these historians “sap the vitality of history.”

The second paragraph discusses the trend towards change in the writing style of historians, specifically towards narrative. The author then says that most historians still fail at accomplishing the goals of narrative.


Passage B is also about narrative, and criticizes legal writing in the same way that the author of passage A criticizes the writing of academic historians. The sentence in lines 34-36 is similar to passage A’s criticism of how academic historians “leave little to the imagination.”

The second paragraph discusses the tradition of legal writing; how “lawyers write as they see other lawyers write,” in much the same way that passage A discusses how historians “visit on students what was visited on them in graduate school.” This is followed by a description in a trend towards narrative, just as in passage A.

The third paragraph here diverges from passage A in that it provides hope for the future of narrative and implies the legitimacy of the movement towards narrative, whereas passage A lacks such hope.


7. Tests your ability to find attitudes justified by each passage.
A) The effectiveness of teaching methods isn’t really mentioned in either passage.
B) This is also unmentioned in either passage.
C) Too extreme to be justified by either passage (“cannot be”.)
D) Correct. This can be inferred from the second paragraph of passage A, and can be inferred from the last paragraph of passage B.
E) Quite the opposite. Both passages look to narrative fiction, another discipline, as a way of rectifying the problem they see in their respective fields.


8. An inference question about both passages.
A) “I started teaching,” in line five of passage A is enough to negate this choice. The term “we” in passage B would also be enough to negate this choice.
B) Correct. For the same reasons choice A was wrong, choice B is right.
C) This choice is half right, but we already found justification for the author of passage B being a member of the profession he discusses.
D) Passage B is about law, passage A about history. While these disciplines are related, they are certainly different.
E) Passage B does not even mention history, the topic of passage A.


 9. This question requires you to understand the tone of both passages. In addition, it tests vocabulary. It is not an easy question.
A) Correct. “Abstract” is mentioned in line 10 and again in in line 49.
B) Hyperbole is a literary technique employed in narrative fiction.
C) “Subversive” is mentioned in passage B, but as referring to the movement toward narrative. It is not in passage A.
D) Narrative is discussed as atypical, not typical.
E) Imagination is currently lacking in both disciplines discussed.


10. This question asks about the difference between the two passages.
A) Passage A does not do this.
B) Both passages make evaluative claims.
C) Correct. See lines 20-25 in passage A; there are no examples in passage B.
D) Both passages criticize the writing in their respective professions.
E) Both passages discuss narrative theory.


11. Method of argument.
You need to find the correspondence between two lines in analogous arguments. “Sap the vitality,” is a criticism of the current standard of writing in the author’s profession. The author of passage B discusses the same topic with regard to his profession in lines 34-38. Let’s look for a choice that quotes something in those lines.

A) Not a criticism.
B) Correct. This choice matches what we were looking for.
C) In the right area of passage B, nonetheless the criticism of this trend is later in those lines.
D) This is analogous to a completely different part of passage A.
E) This indicates hope for the future, not criticism of the present.


12. Inference.
We are asked to infer the author’s expectation of the current prevailing standards of legal writing. This is discussed in lines 34-36; let’s look for something similar to that.

A) Poorly written perhaps, but that would be according to the professors’ advice.
B) Quite the opposite according to the lines we reread.
C) “Well crafted” contradicts “write badly.”
D) Correct. If you join the lines referenced above with lines 48-49, the choice becomes clear.
E) This may actually be true of legal writing.


Authored by Robert Brind


If you want complete LSAT PrepTest explanations, go HERE.



Is the LSAT Relevant to Law School? Question Writer Answers

LSAT Blog Relevant Law School Question Writer Answers
I recently interviewed Stephen Harris, former LSAT question-writer and author of Mastering Logic Games. (He's written hundreds of the questions that appear in your books of LSAT PrepTests.)

Our discussion follows.

You can also:

1. Read ALL of my interviews with him (more than 5!)

LSAT Reading Comprehension Passage Explanation - Ousmane Sembene


LSAT Reading Comprehension Passage Explanation - Ousmane Sembene
Below is a complete explanation for the first Reading Comprehension passage of LSAT PrepTest 52 (September 2007 LSAT) and associated questions. It's an excerpt from Complete Reading Comprehension Explanations for LSAT PrepTests 52-61.

Should You Diagram LSAT Logical Reasoning? Question Writer Answers

LSAT Blog Should Diagram LSAT Logical Reasoning Question Writer Answers
I recently interviewed Stephen Harris, former LSAT question-writer and author of Mastering Logic Games. (He's written hundreds of the questions that appear in your books of LSAT PrepTests.)

Our discussion follows.

You can also:

1. Read ALL of my interviews with him (more than 5!)

Read Question Stem or Stimulus First? LSAT Question Writer Answers

LSAT Blog Read Question Stem Stimulus First LSAT Question Writer Answers
I recently interviewed Stephen Harris, former LSAT question-writer and author of Mastering Logic Games. (He's written hundreds of the questions that appear in your books of LSAT PrepTests.)

Our discussion follows.

You can also:

1. Read ALL of my interviews with him (more than 5!)