Hello! This is the creator of the document, 2 years later. I want to say thank you for all the feedback, and I am so glad this has helped others as it helped me. For context, I ended up accepted at all of HYS and got the Ruby (and many other offers) as a direct result of my LSAT, IMO.

I’d like to ask that you please not copy/paste this for sharing, but rather send people here. I’m considering monetizing this in some way, with more detail and thoughts and such, and would greatly appreciate those who use it doing so kindly. Good luck to all of you on the LSAT, and in law school!

  • Tips/Tricks/Thoughts
  • The best way to improve is to take Practice Tests. “PrepTests” are what they sell as online
  • Buy the most recent bundle of 10, then whatever the most recent individually available tests are (or the 2 most recent available bundles of ten if they just finished a bundle)
  • The most recent tests are the ones most similar to the test you’ll take - I took them so that I did the oldest tests first
  • Take a test in conditions as close to the real thing as possible—this means a timer, quiet but not too quiet, and take two extra sections  from another test so that you have a total of 6 (the length of the real test)
  • The reason you need 2 extra is because when you take a practice test, you shouldn’t bother with the writing section, and you want an extra section to build stamina.  So one extra replaces writing, and the other helps you build stamina.
  • Make sure you tailor your efforts to your weak points once you find them.  By week two of studying you should start to see where you need the most help.
  • Reading Comp is best improved by reading dense material more often, and taking practice test passages to see how the answers work
  • Study Schedule
  • I studied 3 hours a day, from 6:00-9:00 AM, M-Th
  • I studied more on Sundays, and took either Saturday or Friday off (but not both)
  • I had a very regimented calendar:
  • Day 1: Full 6-section practice test under test-like conditions
  • Later in the day, grade test
  • After grading, write down every question I missed in a journal and then write the correct answer.  Included why I put what I did, why it was wrong, and why the correct answer was correct. THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT AND USEFUL THING I DID TO GET BETTER AT LEARNING THE TEST
  • Day 2: Half the time doing Logical Reasoning study, Half the time doing Logic Games
  • Day 3: Half the time doing Reading Comprehension, Half the time doing Logical Reasoning
  • Day 4: Restart the cycle!
  • I set up my calendar so that Sunday was always Day 1.  
  • Study Materials
  • PowerScore “Bibles” (Games, Reasoning)
  • Cambridge Question Drills
  • PrepTests
  • Can be bought on Cambridge, but I found Amazon to be cheaper especially because of the bundle option for 10 together
  • I think right now you can just buy 2 packs of 10 and that would include all of the most recent ones.  When I bought I had to buy 6 individually and then 10 because there wasn’t a new ten-pack yet
  • Spiral Notebook
  • I prefer college ruled
  • This is where you will write down every single question that you miss, write down why you put the answer you did, and then also write down what the correct answer is and why it is correct.  I formatted like so:
  • Question: ………….
  • My Answer: C - because ______.  It was wrong because ______
  • Correct Answer: A - because _____________.
  • #2 wooden pencils
  • I had 24 -> it was massive overkill.
  • Nice erasers
  • The pink ones work best -> don’t skimp on an eraser.  Even nice ones don’t cost much more (we’re talking like a quarter) and it makes such a difference if you have a bubble error or need to get back white space on a page
  • Hand operated pencil sharpener
  • Get a really simple one that’s easy to use
  • Analog watch
  • This will be your only way to keep time during the test
  • After every section I set the time to exactly 12:00 so it was easy to tell when I was approaching 35 minutes
  • Resources
  • TLS is the single most helpful website I have ever found for anything law school related
  • The link is to the LSAT Prep forum, which is where I always went when I had a question—spend a lot of time there, it’s worth it
  • I occasionally used this site when I needed explanations to reading comp or logical reasoning questions
  • Use your google!  
  • If you need an explanation for a certain question in a certain PrepTest, then Google it!  I found explanations for every single question I missed on my PrepTests by simple Googling in conjunction with TLS.