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kirsch wrote:i've been out of college for years and my study skills are rusty. i'm willing to shell out some money and study hard. the prep courses seem to get mixed reviews. would i be better off studying on my own?

CRJC wrote:

BlackJack wrote:I think most people prep in the same way, regardless of whether you do the following consciously or unconsciously and whether you take a course or not.

Phase 1: Accuracy
You basically need to learn the theory of the LSAT and then do drills of a certain concept (whether it is LG/LR/RC) until you are accurate, untimed. Prep courses have the theory and questions already laid out for you. Self-preppers will need to buy the bibles, study them and photocopy and sort questions themselves. Some self-prep don't do drills and go straight to doing sections, albeit untimed. I think you'll reinforce the concepts better if you do drills while learning the theory.

Phase 2: Speed
Hopefully, you didn't use up all of the LSATs on drills and you have some whole sections you can do, timed. But only one section at a time. You are just now working on timing because hopefully, your accuracy and understanding of LSAT theory is sound.

Phase 3: Endurance
At this point, you should be able to finish any section in less than 35 minutes (with bubbling) and so you need to build endurance to be able to do 5 sections in a row.

That's the way I see it anyway.

i really wish i would have realized this before starting to study, as it is a really important point. there is an order to those factors, and i've just been bombarding myself with everything at once..

Voyager wrote:OP:

Well done. Looks similar to the study guide I wrote up several years ago. It really helps people to have a structured approach to preparation. Using something similar to the above I've seen students dramatically improve their scores to include several 30 point increases (admittedly, their diagnostics were around 130... but still, 130-160 is pretty good).

PKSebben wrote:
Hey, dude. What's up?

kirsch wrote:thanks for your response. i suspect a class would be a good idea, given that my study skills have atrophied. i've gotten the impression that testmasters is pretty intense. that's fine. but it makes me wonder if some sort of "pre-prep prep" might be a good idea. i have PR's 2009 "Cracking the LSAT." Do you think that would be useful or would PR's approach be too different from testmasters'? again, thanks for your response. John Kirsch

Voyager wrote:

PKSebben wrote:
Hey, dude. What's up?

Getting through this 2L deal. You?

Voyager wrote:OP:

Well done. Looks similar to the study guide I wrote up several years ago. It really helps people to have a structured approach to preparation. Using something similar to the above I've seen students dramatically improve their scores to include several 30 point increases (admittedly, their diagnostics were around 130... but still, 130-160 is pretty good).

NuanceSpecialist wrote:where can we get the preptests 36 to present? I cant find them.

slw wrote:Help! (I posted this question several different places- and have received no answers. Maybe this means there is no good supplement?)

My situation/ question...
I am re-taking in June & I completed the games sections from all Prep Test prior to the Feb Exam. Although I'm retaking to improve on RC/ I still want to keep game skills sharp & have found that I remember most of the games from all of the PTs.

Can anyone suggest a good supplemental book for simulated logic games? (that are close in nature to real lsat LGs).

Thanks for any thoughts.

pithypike wrote: Ace the LSAT Logic Games has some that are vaguely similar.