LSAT Answers: Unauthorized, Unofficial & Unsurpassed Explanations [Paperback]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 0974853348 | ISBN-13: 978-0974853345 | Publication Date: August 1, 2004

Those in the know recommend that you prep with real LSAT tests-specifically "10 More Actual Official LSAT PrepTests." Unfortunately, they will caution you, "10 More Actual Official LSAT PrepTests" contains NO explanations for why the correct answers are correct and why the wrong answers are wrong. So, when the answer key says (C) is correct, and you do not understand why, you will be frustrated. Also, the "10 More" book gives no advice for how to solve the problems, how to diagram the games, how to eliminate wrong answers, or how to use simple strategies and shortcuts to find the correct answers. "LSAT Answers" solves this problem. It explains all 1010 question in "10 More Actual Official LSAT PrepTests." It has detailed analysis and contains the vital strategies, techniques, tricks, and tips you need to achieve an excellent score. It reveals the testing patterns that are repeated year after year. Use LSAT Answers and learn how to: Analytical Reasoning Puzzle Games- Choose and execute the correct diagram (hint, there are only four common diagrams) Skip the diagramming step for many questions. You will save time, yet still answer them correctly 100% of the time. Significantly and quickly improve your score in the puzzle games. Logical Reasoning: Find the correct answer, faster, by identifying the key issues. Avoid the red-flag words that fool most test takers. Master the three question types that account for 65% of your logical reasoning score. Reading Comprehension: Read for the only three issues that are tested. Maximize your efficiency if you are a slow reader. Thousands of Get Prepped classroom students have used "LSAT Answers" to raise their scores. Now you can obtain the same time-tested strategies and techniques for the price of this book. If you buy only two LSAT prep books, buy "LSAT Answers" and "10 More Actual Official LSAT PrepTests."

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

"Practicing with actual LSAT questions is necessary but not sufficient. In 10 More Actual LSATs, Law Services provides actual LSATs and answers, but no analysis and no commentary. In this book, Get Prepped provides the missing link–exceptional analysis and complete commentary–for all 5 (right and wrong) answer choices to the 1010 questions in 10 More Actual LSATs. In my 25 years of teaching and creating LSAT courses I have seen many LSAT prep books. This is one of the most accurate, well organized and helpful books that I have encountered, and a bargain to boot!"
John Richardson J.D. – Author, Mastering The LSAT.

About the Author

Get Prepped is the only national test-prep firm that exclusively teaches the LSAT. In working with thousands of LSAT students Get Prepped has developed effective, easy to learn, and easy to use test-taking strategies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 325 pages
• Publisher: Get Prepped (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974853348
• ISBN-13: 978-0974853345
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #876,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK if you're struggling to understand wrong answers, July 6, 2005

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EJR (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LSAT Answers: Unauthorized, Unofficial & Unsurpassed Explanations (Paperback)

If you are taking LSAT tests 19-28 and are able to figure out why your incorrect answers are wrong then do not waste your money on this book. I immediately purchased this book when I bought tests 19-28 assuming that I would need the book to improve my performance. The book has turned out to be unnecessary. Of the dozen or so old LSATs I have taken I have yet to find an incorrect answer that didn't become apparent within a minute or so of reflection. When I initially consulted this book for help in understanding my mistakes I was very disappointed with the superficial reasoning and, in some cases, by the text's failure to actually explain the reasoning behind some of the answers. I gleaned some useful tips (ie, save parallel reasoning questions for the end of the section, etc.) but otherwise it was a wasted thirty bucks. If you understand your mistakes save yourself the cash.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Be Careful Assuming It Actually Has All the "Answers", September 11, 2005

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Joshua Brown (Smithfield, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LSAT Answers: Unauthorized, Unofficial & Unsurpassed Explanations (Paperback)

Because there aren't comparable books out there with explanations for every test question in every released LSAT Preptest included in "10 More Actual, Official LSAT Preptests," I would still consider buying this book for lack of a better option. However, calling the explanations "Unsurpassed" is reaching quite a bit.

The reasoning given for why wrong answers are wrong is often not helpful, and sometimes even incorrect. The book occasionally makes a correct answer sound like it should have been chosen as the best selection among poor choices, but if someone understands the actual logical basis behind a correct answer, then the correct answer is clearly the only choice that would satisfy a question.

For example, the book has a habit of dismissing incorrect answers with the terribly unhelpful explanation, "So what?" That is not a paraphrase; the book will actually analyze an incorrect answer choice with the words, "So what?"

Now, if someone picked that answer choice, and needed help understanding why it was wrong, "So what?" would not even begin to help him or her. "So what?" is not a sufficient explanation because, if it were that obvious, no one would have ever been tempted to choose an incorrect answer choice in the first place!

Regarding the inaccurate reasoning given for eliminating wrong answer choices and selecting the right one, an example wouldn't be very clear here because it would be totally out of context for someone who didn't have the Preptest questions in front of him or her to examine. However, consider looking through the book at a bookstore after taking a Preptest, and carefully reading the explanations that "LSAT Answers" provides for why any of your correct answers are correct. You won't have to read many before you'll find one that is really nothing but fluff.

As I said, because it suffers from a lack of competition, the book still might be worth buying. But don't make it your only source of reference because there are better explanatory texts out there, even if they don't cover all of the questions from all of the Preptests in one of the 10-Preptest volumes.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an important part of your balanced test prep, October 29, 2004

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tom bund "tom bund" (Sunny New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LSAT Answers: Unauthorized, Unofficial & Unsurpassed Explanations (Paperback)

This book does a good job of explaining every question in the "10 More Actual LSAT" book. Everyone should use real LSAT questions to prepare for the big day, using fake questions-which are found in most books-is a bad use of you time. Finally this books explains real LSAT questions, so lawyer wanna-be's can finally get real LSATs exaplained-which used to mean taking an expensive prep course just to look at their test libraries. Note that this book doesn't contain any overview info, it only explains the questions. So if you need a overiew book, pick up "Master the LSAT" or a Princeton or Kaplan book. So you need to buy "10 More Actual LSAT" and probably one extra overview book, but then you have everything a person who paid for a thousand dollar course has.