Sunday, April 29, 2007

LSAT Courses

Here's my LSAT course primer:

The LSAT is a learnable skill. As such, most people should take an LSAT class. The few exceptions know who they are. LSAT courses help you focus, force you to study for the LSAT.

There are 4 major LSAT courses out there, and they can be divided into two subsections. There are few differences within the subsections.

Kaplan and Princeton Review

No one I know that has taken these has been overly happy. Compare to the endless praise given by PowerScore and Testmasters folks. They're supposed to do a good job on most everything but the logic games section. Most people I know that took Kaplan or Princeton Review recommended buying the Powerscore Logic Games Bible to supplement.

PowerScore and Testmasters
PowerScore is becoming the most recommeneded LSAT course, in no small part because of its LSAT Bibles it releases. Powerscore is an offshoot of Testmasters. Their methods are similar, if not the same in almost every respect. Each of these companies are praised by everyone I've talked to. A final note, Testmasters is known as ScorePerfect in Texas. Something about copyright infringement?

Bottom Line

Take an LSAT course. It's more important to take the course and do the practice stuff than to take the right course. It's better not to take a course and take practice exams than to take a course and think classroom time is going to save you.

Hope that helps.

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