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Why Tutoring Matters for Your LSAT Test Prep Journey

Self-study and private tutoring are excellent companions. Struggling with the questions on your own teaches you intangibles about your unique way of thinking and the test-taking process, while tutoring gives you the precise tools you need to compete with other smarties in the standardized exam Hunger Games. They are often pitted against each other, but the truth is that self-study and private tutoring are like peanut butter and jelly—successful separately but even better when combined. (If you don’t like the combination of peanut butter and jelly, I’m sorry to say, you can’t be helped.)

Three Common Sense Tips to Improve Your LSAT Score

There’s no shortage of advice on how to improve your LSAT score. A fair number of score improvement methods tend toward the draconian, from “take two practice tests every single day” to “create a Kafkaesque reward-punishment system” to “start studying four years before we started having this conversation.” That sort of attitude might work—I have no idea, and I will, thankfully, never need to find out.

Why do some LSAT students struggle with reading comprehension?

In teacher Kelly Gallagher’s acclaimed book Readicide (2009), he warns against what he candidly and unsparingly defines as “the systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.” Many of us who grew up in the early-aughts post-NCLB standardized-testing era in America were young victims of readicide (NCLB is short for the “No Child Left Behind” Act signed by President Bush in 2002). 

Mastering 'Exception' Questions in LSAT Reading Comprehension

Navigating the LSAT Reading Comprehension section can be challenging, especially when encountering "exception" questions. These questions require you to identify the one answer choice that doesn’t match the given reasons or examples in a passage. The video “Finding the Exception to a LSAT Reading Comp Purpose Using LSAT PrepTest 158 Section 1, Question 13” provides a step-by-step approach to tackling these tricky questions.

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