Advice for LSAT preparation?

finnah
Sun, 01 Jun 2014 21:54:09 +0000

Hi all,

I’m a rising senior at a top 20 university, planning on taking the September LSAT and applying to law school in the fall. I’m trying to figure out the best course of study, since I’m not sure the traditional class route is the way to go for me. I bought a book of old LSAT exams, and took one of them (timed, and excluding the writing sample) without any kind of preparation. I scored a 165-- just barely finishing the two logical reasoning sections in time (and scoring ~ 20/21 out of 25 on both), not having enough time to get through the games section (I got through 3 of the 4 games, got around 16 correct), and finishing the reading comprehension section with time to spare (and getting 23/25 right).

I have the powerscore bible book on logical reasoning, and am going through that, but at this point I’m not sure if it’ll be helpful for me. I find the method kind of contrived and think it might be taking away from my studying. Would I be better off just doing a lot of practice exams instead?

I’m planning on using the powerscore book for the games section- do you think that would be helpful, or is there something else I should try? I saw that powerscore has weekend courses, and was thinking about doing one of those.

Do you have any advice on how I should prep for the LSAT, given my performance on a practice test?

Thanks!