My students and I take advantage of a wide range of resources and practice materials, depending upon their goals and needs. Below is a broad framework outlining how we proceed in each of the three LSAT section types.
Analytical Reasoning (Logic Games)
- Learn and recognize game types
- Establish consistent and complete notation for known game types
- Practice individual game types, focusing on honing:
- Setup - Initial roster and main diagram
- Deductions - Identifying and notating rules-based deductions
- Linchpin rule scenario limitation - Identifying critical rules that result in significantly limited possibilities for all or parts of the game
- Pacing - Streamlining and accelerating standard tasks
- The largest and most score-critical component of the LSAT
- Learn and recognize question types
- Learn and establish consistent notation for formal logic questions
- Study and recognize standard wrong-answer designs on each question type
- Practice pacing
- Often considered the easiest of the LSAT components, but not for those with reading weaknesses
- Practice active and deliberate reading, honing:
- Focus - Unremitting attention to the passage and its details and meaning
- Reasoning - Active envisioning of and reasoning about the text's points and their connections to each other
- Recall - Ability to remember and reason about text points even before returning to the text to confirm or fine-tune
- Passage anatomy recognition - Ongoing attention to the passage's overall structure and the function of each paragraph or part
