In The Loop

The LSAT is a reading test. Your reading ability is the single greatest factor determining your LSAT score.  I recently stressed this during an interview with Steve Schwartz from the LSAT Blog:  You probably don’t think this is that big a deal. You’re literally reading this right now. You can read. But there’s a difference between the kind of reading the LSAT rewards and the kind it punishes. That difference is skimming. Skimming isn’t reading. I hate to Read more…

LSAT burn out is a special kind of problem to have. It affects only the most motivated student, and that’s what makes it so dangerous.  The student wants to do well so much that they’re willing to do anything to get their score. But anything isn’t always good. Working on LSAT every day for 8+ hours sounds like it would hypothetically lead to score improvements… but in practice it can lead to score decreases. Weird, right? This is because that level Read more…

The LSAT can be fun. And yes, making it fun will make you better at it.   Students really underestimate how much their attitude about the test affects their score. Behind work ethic, attitude is probably the single biggest determining factor of two things: How much you improve How close to your real test will be to your practice test average I’m making a huge claim here, and I’d be a hyprocrite if I didn’t Read more…

I started off teaching the LSAT just like most people do. I read the best books on the market, the Powerscore Bibles. They worked for me. I got my mid-170 and was happily “on my way to HLS” (lol). When I first started tutoring the LSAT, I didn’t know much more than what was written in the Bibles, and I seriously didn’t even know that very well. You can look at my 2011 Logic Games Read more…