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How to Prepare for LSAT - Law School Admission Test (Barron's LSAT)

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This is a highly poor edition to study for the LSAT. One of the main reasons has to do with the fact that, unlike the real LSAT, which has rigorous controls to ensure that 1) test questions are quite similar to past tests; 2) that there is no ambiguous language that would confuse or create potentially two accurate answers . . . but this book has no such protections to guarantee the accuracy or quality of the test questions.

Instead, I would highly recommend the LSAT takers purchase a book from the Law School Admission Council, which sells actual past LSAT exams.

What we seek to do is earn high scores on the actual LSAT test; we really do not care how Barron's will rate us. So we must take a test that is as close to a real LSAT test as humanly possible. Simply put, this book fails that test.

-- Michael Gordon
Los Angeles

This book provides great strategies for each section of the LSAT. It is very thorough in dissecting different types of problems. However, the sample exams are a big disappointment. They each contain all five multiple-choice sections, including the experimental one, but they don't tell you which one it is. You can't score yourself! After sweating for three hours on a sample exam, it would be nice to know how you scored. The CD doesn't add anything significant either. It contains the same sample tests as the book. Sure, I guess there's the added convenience of having your computer time you, but it still won't score your exam. For some strange reason, the program wouldn't even save my exam, so I can't go back and look at my answers now. If you're going to buy this book, buy it without the CD. You'll save a few bucks.

This book is not only a waste of money, but more unfortunately, a waste of one's time. The questions are very poorly put together, and often make no sense. By comparison, the series by Kaplan are far better.

This book was worse than useless. It confused me, made me feel stupid, and brought down my score. The analytical and logical reasoning sections of this book were at best irrelevant, at worst misleading, and often just wrong. Suggestions in the reading comprehension section were appalingly obvious. Do yourself a favor - do not buy this book - and tell everyone you know not to buy this book.

This was the first LSAT prep book I bought (from my college bookstore no less - I should have checked reviews on Amazon before I made the purchase). I stopped reading it after the first few exercises because the questions and answers were so screwy! I'd never seen another prep course, book, or released LSAT before this and I could tell that it was garbage.

If you want a great book for the logic games check out the book by PowerScore - Logic Games Bible. From there try the Kaplan and the actual LSATs.

One of my other books actually pointed out a few destructive models that other "instructors" will try to convince you will help you on the LSAT but do nothing but confuse you and slow you down. Guess what - Barron's is FULL OF THEM!!

I bought this book primarily as a source of practice analytical (games) questions. I didn't pay much attention to the test-taking tips, which tend to be the same in every test prep book anyway. However, the sample material is so poorly constructed and edited that it is completely useless.

Consider just the 15 questions on page 112-113. There is at least one question which cannot be answered correctly. There is another which has two correct answers, unless you make an additional assumption which is not stated in the question. There are two questions which ask exactly the same thing, with slightly different words. And there is at least one question for which the answer given (on page 121,) though correct, is accompanied by an explanation which is complete nonsense.

That's just two pages. The rest of the book is filled with similar garbage. Flipping through this book and picking out all the logical errors might actually be a good exercise for a future lawyer, but it's useless as preparation for the LSATs.

Luckily I just took this book out from the library and didn't waste my money on it.

Please, please, please do not buy or use this book. It is a waste of time. Unfortunately sometimes the only way to find this out is to use the book yourself. Please though believe my review and the others (who rate it low). I wasted about a week and a half. Perhaps I learned some basic reading comp. tactics, but that's about it.

I just bought Master the LSAT by Nova. Haven't used it yet, but the reviews (which I should have believed for this book) are pretty high.

I found this book more confusing than helpful. The test questions were not comparable to those actually on the LSAT. They were more vague and misleading than those questions on the actual test, particularly the logic games. Using poor study materials can really hurt you, so I would spend time working with more beneficial materials than this book. I would recommend Kaplan books instead or just getting the official tests produced by LSAC. Good luck on the test!

I am so mad at this book. The questions were poorly worded, the strategies weren't very helpful, some of the questions has wrong answers (I mean totally wrong)..The worst thing of all was that the last test was so easy, it was obviously an attempt to make you believe that the book helped you to improve to a near-perfect score. I thought I was a moron because I was still scoring low on real LSAT's. Then I bought Cracking the LSAT and Master the LSAT and ended up scoring where I wanted to. This book is recommnended only if you are taking the LSAT in 2 days, haven't studied, and this is the only book you can find.

Purchase the "10 practice LSATs" from LSAC instead. This book is rife with questions that have no correct answer or more than one correct answer. Explanations for "logical" reasoning are illogical, incorrect, and at times, downright bizarre.

This book serves only to confuse, not to educate. Barron's should be embarrased that it is publishing such a sub-standard study guide.