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Kaplan LSAT Advanced: Your Only Guide to a 180 (Kaplan LSAT 180)

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This will be a very good study tool for some students and it will depend on what you hope to achieve from using it.

What this book is:
This book is a collection of what Kaplan believes are the more difficult questions that have been used on previous lsat exams. To the best of my knowledge, they are exactly word for word and the book contains only real lsat questions. In each of the three sections, questions as posed and followed by a brief explanation as to why the right answer is correct and the others wrong.

What this book is NOT:
You will not find strategies outlined in this book. Kaplan expects you to be well versed in being able to deduce the correct answer. In a number of the question explanations the author will state that this answer choice failed the "so and so test" and is therefor not correct. For someone like myself who has used the Powerscore books exclusively, these explanations prove pointless.

Major Problems:
The author of this book absolutely terrible, and the apparent lack of an editor is very apparent. There are multiple instances where the correct answer stated is actually wrong. Most of the time the correct answer is explained, and just the answer key is wrong. This can prove detrimental if you believe the wrong answer to be correct and you do not bother reading the explanation to see the correction. This seems to be a constant theme with previous editions of this book.

The second major problem throughout the book is that for many of the questions, the answer is printed directly below the question. You simply cannot help but see the answer and bothering to work the problem is absolutely pointless. I am just amazed that the author did this.

All in all this book had significant potential, especially for others like myself who are hard working to score in the 98th or 99th percentile. The major problems I mentioned become obstacles in helping you understand those two or three questions you are missing per section.

This book is useless since the answers/explanations do not line up with the questions meaning you can work through questions only to read explanations from who knows what other questions. This book actually might lower your score if you work through it and confuse the wrong answers like it suggests. It appears that the editor copied and pasted from past books but got many of the answers mixed up, especially on the logical reasoning section. I would hope that this book would be pulled from stores and refunds given to those who bought it. I have had this problem with other Kaplan products too. I think they make horrible books so people will have a deflated since of what score they might get in order to trick people to take their classes to boost their "low" scores.