Examkrackers LSAT Logical Reasoning [Paperback]

David Lynch (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 433 pages
• Publisher: Osote Publishing; 1 edition (January 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893858537
• ISBN-13: 978-1893858534
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #425,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly What It Should Be, April 14, 2008

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This review is from: Examkrackers LSAT Logical Reasoning (Paperback)

I'm a private LSAT tutor who uses a mix of past LSATs, commercial books, and my own material for my students. I have to say I really like this book and the others from Examkrackers.

I respect the opinion of the previous reviewer (AW), who has written a lot of quality reviews for many LSAT books, but I disagree that with the opinion that this book is overly simplistic. For example, the book advises you to ask yourself for flaw questions, "Is this a flaw in the argument?" While this sounds obvious, this advice is followed by a discussion of why answer choices for flaw questions can be wrong, and it turns out that there are only two kinds of wrong answer choices for flaw questions: choices that don't describe real flaws, and choices that don't accurately describe the argument. Thus, this simple question reminds you to check whether each choice really describes a flaw and really describes the argument. Only the correct choice will do both. So, yes, this approach is simple, but it gets you to the right answer, so why make things more complicated? I like the simplicity. Of course, the book also provides a lot more advice about how to spot common flaws as well.

The point about conditional reasoning is analogous. The LRB has tons of material regarding this topic, and while it is all true, about half of it is beyond the scope of any question that would appear on the LSAT more than once a decade. I started advising my students to skip large portions of this book when they came to me utterly confused. If you can handle All, Most, and Some, including combining these concepts, you're golden for the LSAT. The EK book has a great approach for doing so, and you can forget all about powerscore's double not arrows, negative logic ladder, and the dreaded "complete table of formal logical additive inference relationships."

Bottom line: I now use the EK series with my students, along with the home study regimen available on their site and a bunch of past LSATs. My students like it a lot.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Princeton Review, December 14, 2010

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This review is from: Examkrackers LSAT Logical Reasoning (Paperback)

As I prepared for the LSAT, I bought the Princeton Review general prep book that covered all three areas of the test. I found that it was less descriptive than what I needed in order to do well on the practice tests. My biggest area of difficulty was logical reasoning, so I checked out what other books were available. ExamKrackers is great! The author scored in the 99th percentile for the LSAT, MCAT, and, I believe, the GMAT (not completely sure on the last one though). It clearly went through each type of logical reasoning question (with visual aids for you visual learners!) and addressed strategies for effectively and efficiently eliminating wrong answer choices and identifying the stronger answer possibilities.

This book greatly improved my practice score, which increased my confidence as I headed into the test. I got the score that I wanted to get and I got into my top choice for law school. I definitely recommend ExamKrackers over some of the other publications out there.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best logical reasoning book, February 7, 2008

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I was really impressed with this book. Really thorough, but surprisingly efficient. Unlike the power score bible, this doesn't make everything unnecessarily complicated. I know the LSAT is hard, but I like how it showed me how answering every problem is just a matter of using the same small set of skills in slightly different ways. This also has a lot more example problems, timed quizzes, and drills.