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The PowerScore LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible

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I am a BIG fan of power score products. I utilized this series for GMAT and now for LSAT and each time I saw results. I am fortunate to have a small budget to purchase these basic prep books and followed a stringent 3 month self study plan (I didn't have 1500 to spend on a professional prep program) and I did well on the test. It takes focus , discipline and great prep books, such as POWER SCORE!

Ok I love Power score can you tell?! BUT this is my least fav in the LSAT series but it is still a great book. I just believe that RC is well the easier of the sections to study for that is why I am "iffy" about the need for this book. I worked my way through the entire book and I did walk away with some decent knowledge but honestly I only applied about 1/3 of it on the test simply because of time. I just found their approach to be really time consuming however I also tend to be a fast reader so the thought of doing the breakdown they suggest was just overwhelming for me. I will say this, if this is a section you are struggling with buy the book but if you are a-ok put your pennies toward more lsac preptest's.

It's not perfect, but it's the best available book to help with Reading Comprehension for prospective LSAT takers.

Much of this material is the same as you will get in the $1,000+ face to face course. As long as you have the self motivation to study hard, this book will pay for itself in a few weeks.

Still, this is the weakest of the three bibles - after all, it's not going to teach you how to read and comprehend 220 words of really dense text in under four minutes. Instead it will teach you how to focus your reading so you get the most useful information as quickly as possible.

Before buying this book, you'll probably also want the Logical Reasoning and Logic Games bibles and a good selection of past tests to complete your study materials.

As a professional LSAT tutor/blogger, I was skeptical when PowerScore published this a few years ago. I didn't think PS would be able to follow up on the success of the previous 2 bibles with another truly useful study guide. In some respects, I was right, but in others, PS exceeded my expectations.

If you're already scoring decently on Reading Comprehension, this book will repeat much of what you already know. It won't do much to help you get those last few questions.

If you're struggling on Reading Comprehension, this book will make this section much more manageable.

Note: PowerScore once again exhibits its tendency to over-classify. The book goes into detail on every question type, every passage type, etc. If you majored in biology, you might find these taxonomies interesting, but most folks won't benefit from thinking about RC in this degree of detail.

Use (if at all): If you decide Reading Comp is a weak area worth focusing on, complete this book before doing several RC passages.

This book is long and filled with over-classifications that do very little to help you improve on the Reading Comprehension. Dividing the RC into content types and addressing them with separate strategies is unnecessary because you want to identify the structure.

A much better investment would be Manhattan's Reading Comprehension book.

Avoid this one.

Great overview of the reading comprehension section! Highly recommend. Definitely purchase the other two bible books in the series! Also, make sure you purchase practice tests to do in addition to this review

The first couple chapters are fairly informative. Their method of diagramming is useful. However, most of the information that you get from the book (such as question types) is not only in the logical reasoning bible, it is barely explained in the reading comprehension bible. Additionally, the explanations for answers are less than stellar. Example for a main point question: "This is an accurate description but does does not reflect the main point of the passage, so this answer is incorrect." Personally, I did not find this incredibly illuminating, but I also don't know how else they could explain this better. I would suggest buying the other two powerscore bibles (they are incredibly helpful) and only buying this is if you are really uneasy about the RC section (and i would suggest buying it used because the raw information in it is a lot more useful than the practice and explanation info). Deserves little more than a rough skim.

The "LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible" offers modest support in helping improve reading comprehension. I'm traditionally good at reading comprehension so I didn't find much of the material helpful. However, I can see how some of the methods could help.

Buy this if you do poorly on the reading comprehension section of the LSAT or have the money for somewhat superfluous supplements.

This is a good class room substitute as it does provide detailed instructions on how to tackle the passages. Only thing is, if you're having trouble, the analysis must be done by you.

There are lots of drills included, thus, you may not need to buy many more full exams to get practice outside simply needing to take FULL exames. All the examples are licensed from LSAC. This DOES make a difference. I have other books that used their own made-up examples and you can tell that these would not have been used on a real exam.

It also has a lot of supplemental information that I found helpful. Ex: If you must guess, what letter shows up must often ( do not guess unless you MUST though...)

This book gives you a very thorough introdutcion to the reading comprehension sections and goes on to elaborate on a strategy. Even though they outline a very good reading strategy, I believe that the reading comprehension section is far more dependent on each person for a strategy. It does help you reflect on that and possibly get a good reading strategy of your own. Overall, a good buy!!!

This was the first of the bibles that I bought and used, and it was very helpful for me. Reading comprehension was a struggle for me during the GREs, and I wanted to pay extra attention to it for the LSAT. I went from missing half the questions in a reading comp section to missing 4-5 questions. If you are fairly good at reading comp already this book may not be worth it for you, but if you struggle it will definitely help!