PREPTESTS 72-81, Slides of Reasoning

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• P R E P T E STS 72 -

Instructions

Page 3

Study Schedule

Pages 4 - 15 (unmarked)

Appendix

Pages 16 - 21

Assignments By Week

Here are all of your assignments, divided up by week. These assignments are also listed on your biweekly to-do pages.

Week One

Lesson 1. Introduction to the LSAT

Lesson 2. Logical Reasoning

Lesson 3. Logic Games

Lesson 4. Reading Comprehension

Take Diagnostic (Practice Exam #72)

Week Two

Lesson 5. Flaws

Lesson 6. A Piece ≠ The Puzzle

Lesson 7. Apples Oranges

Lesson 8. 1 + 1 ≠ 3

Lesson 9. Flaw Review

Lesson 10. Diagramming

Week Three

Lesson 11. Categories & Subsets

Lesson 12. Numbers Issues

Lesson 13. Conditional Rules

Lesson 14. Or Rules

Lesson 15. Diagramming Review

Drill Ordering Games from Set 1

Drill Grouping Games from Set 1 Drill

Ordering + Grouping &

Assignment Games from Set 1

Lesson 16. Problem Solving Process

Week Four

Lesson 17. Flaw & Match the Flaw

Questions

Drill Flaw , Match the Flaw, and Useful to

Know from Set 1

Lesson 18. Sufficient Assumption &

Supporting Principle

Drill Sufficient Assumption & Supporting

Principle from Set 1

Lesson 19. Required Assumption,

Strengthen, & Weaken

Drill Required Assumption, Strengthen,

& Weaken from Set 1

Lesson 20. A Review of Subjective

Questions

Lesson 21. A Brief Return to Games

Lesson 22. Reading for Reasoning

Structure

Lesson 23. General Reading Strategies

Week Five

Lesson 24. Reading Practice One

Lesson 25. Reading Practice Two &

Comparative Passages

Drill Reading Comprehension from Set 1

Lesson 26. General Question Strategies

Lesson 27. Minor Question Strategies

Lesson 28. Good and Great Solutions

Lesson 29. The Mastery Challenge

Week Six

Drill Ordering Games from Set 2

Drill Grouping Games from Set 2

Lesson 30. Argument Structure

Questions

Drill ID the Conclusion, ID the Role,

Reasoning Structure, & Match the

Reasoning from Set 1

Lesson 31. LSAT Vocabulary

Lesson 32. Inference & Example

Drill Inference & Example from Set 1

Lesson 33. ID the Disagreement &

Explain a Discrepancy

Drill ID the Disagreement & Explain This

from Set 1

Week Seven

Lesson 34. Logical Reasoning Strategy

Review

Lesson 35. General Question Strategies

Lesson 36. Comparative Passage

Question Strategies

Practice Exam

Week Eight

Drill Reading Comprehension from Set 2

Drill Flaw, Match the Flaw, &

Useful to Know from Set 2

Drill Sufficient Assumption & Supporting

Principle from Set 2

Drill Required Assumption, Strengthen,

& Weaken from Set 2

Drill ID the Conclusion, ID the Role,

Reasoning Structure, & Match the

Reasoning from Set 2

Drill Inference from Set 2

Drill Explain This from Set 2

Lesson 37. Reading Comprehension

Review

Lesson 38. Reading Comprehension

Sample Section

Drill Reading Comprehension from Set 3

Week Nine

Lesson 39. Logic Games Review Drill

Mixed Logic Games from Set 3

Practice Exam

Week Ten

Drill Mixed Logical Reasoning from Set 3

Lesson 40. Logical Reasoning Review

Practice Exam

Week Eleven

Practice Exam

Week Twelve

Practice Exam

Weeks 1 & 2

To-Do’s For Week 1

R Lesson 1

R Lesson 2

R Lesson 3

R Lesson 4

T Practice Exam 72

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

Notes

To-Do’s For Week 2

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

R Lesson 5

R Lesson 6

R Lesson 7

R Lesson 8

R Lesson 9

R Lesson 10

Use extra study time to

review!

R = read, T = take practice exam, D = drill

Weeks 5 & 6

To-Do’s For Week 5

R Lesson 24

R Lesson 25

D Reading Comp Set 1

R Lesson 26

R Lesson 27

R Lesson 28

R Lesson 29

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

Notes

To-Do’s For Week 6

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

D Ordering Games Set 2 D Inference & Example Set 1

D Grouping Games Set 2 R Lesson 33

R Lesson 30 D

ID the Disagreement &

Explain This Set 1

D

ID the Concl., ID the Role,

Reasoning Structure, &

Match the Reasoning Set 1

R Lesson 31

R Lesson 32

R = read, T = take practice exam, D = drill

Weeks 7 & 8

To-Do’s For Week 7

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

Notes

To-Do’s For Week 8

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

R Lesson 34

R Lesson 35

R Lesson 36

T Practice Test 77

R = read, T = take practice exam, D = drill

D Reading Comp. Set 2 D Inference Set 2

D

Flaw, Useful to Know, &

Match the Flaw Set 2

D Explain This Set 2

D

Suff. Assumption & Supp.

Principle Set 2

R Lesson 37

R Lesson 38

D

Req. Assumption, Str. &

Weaken Set 2

D Reading Comp. Set 3

D

ID the Concl., ID the Role,

Reasoning Structure, &

Match the Reasoning Set 2

Weeks 11 & 12

To-Do’s For Week 11

T Practice Exam 80

Use extra study time to

review!

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

Notes

To-Do’s For Week 12

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

T Practice Exam 81

Use extra study time to

review!

R = read, T = take exam, D = drill

Weeks _ & _

To-Do’s For Week _

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

Notes

To-Do’s For Week _

Daily Schedule

S M T W T F S

PT S # S

I.D. the Conclusion Set 1

PT S # S

I.D. the Role Set 1

PT S # S

• = response

Reasoning Structure Set 1

PT S # S

Match the Reasoning Set 1

PT S # S

Inference Set 1

PT S # S

Give an Example Set 1

PT S # S

I.D. the Disagreement Set 1

PT S # S

Explain This Set 1 Reading Comp Set 2

PT S

Solve All

Problems

75 2

Drill Sets in Detail

Ordering Games

Set 2

PT S Games

Grouping Games

Set 2

PT S Games

Reading Comp

Set 1

PT S

Solve All

Problems

73 1

Drill Sets in Detail

PT S # S

Sufficient Assumption Set 2

PT S # S

• = conform to principle

Supporting Principle Set 2

PT S # S

Strengthen Set 2

PT S # S

• = except

Weaken Set 2

PT S # S

Required Assumption Set 2

PT S # S

• = response

Flaw Set 2

Useful to Know Set 2

PT S # S

Match the Flaw Set 2

PT S

PT S # S

I.D. the Conclusion Set 2

PT S # S

I.D. the Role Set 2

PT S # S

• = response

Reasoning Structure Set 2

Appendix

This appendix contains a summary of assigned work, as well as some general advice

about learning, drilling, practice exams, and reviewing your work.

Introductions

1. Introduction to the LSAT

2. Logical Reasoning

3. Logic Games

4. Reading Comprehension

Logical Reasoning Set One

5. Flaws

6. A Piece ≠ The Puzzle

7. Apples Oranges

9. Flaw Review

Logic Games Set One

10. Diagramming

11. Categories & Subsets

12. Numbers Issues

13. Conditional Rules

14. Or Rules

15. Diagramming Review

Logical Reasoning Set Two

16. Problem Solving Process

17. Flaw & Match the Flaw Questions

18. Sufficient Assumption & Supporting Principle

19. Required Assumption, Strengthen, & Weaken

20. A Review of Subjective Questions

21. A Brief Return to Games

Reading Comprehension Set One

22. Reading for Reasoning Structure

23. General Reading Strategies

24. Reading Practice One

25. Reading Practice Two & Comparative Passages

Logic Games Set Two

26. General Question Strategies

27. Minor Question Strategies

28. Good and Great Solutions

29. The Mastery Challenge

Logical Reasoning Set Three

30. Argument Structure Questions

31. LSAT Vocabulary

32. Inference & Example

33. Identify the Disagreement & Explain a Discrepancy

34. Logical Reasoning Strategy Review

Reading Comprehension Set Two

35. General Question Strategies

36. Comparative Passage Question Strategies

37. Reading Comprehension Review

38. Reading Comprehension Sample Section

Final Review

39. Logic Games Review

40. Logical Reasoning Review

Lessons (in The LSAT Trainer)

This study schedule utilizes exams 72, and 77-81 for full practice

tests. Both 72 and 77 are also assigned as part of your drill work.

Practice Tests

Ordering Games from Drill Set 1

Grouping Games from Drill Set 1

Ordering + Grouping & Assignment Games from Drill Set 1

Flaw, Useful to Know, & Match the Flaw from Drill Set 1

Sufficient Assumption & Supporting Principle from Drill Set 1

Required Assumption, Strengthen, & Weaken from Drill Set 1

Reading Comprehension Drill Set 1

Ordering Games from Drill Set 2

Grouping Games from Drill Set 2

Ordering + Grouping & Assignment Games from Drill Set 2

ID the Conclusion, ID the Role, Reasoning Structure, & Match the

Reasoning from Drill Set 1

Inference & Example from Drill Set 1

Identify the Disagreement & Explain This from Drill Set 1

Reading Comprehension Drill Set 2

Flaw, Useful to Know, & Match the Flaw from Drill Set 2

Sufficient Assumption & Supporting Principle from Drill Set 2

Required Assumption, Strengthen, & Weaken from Drill Set 2

ID the Conclusion, ID the Role, Reasoning Structure, & Match the

Reasoning from Drill Set 2

Inference from Drill Set 2

Explain This from Drill Set 2

Reading Comprehension Drill Set 3

Mixed Logic Games Drill Set 3

Mixed Logical Reasoning Drill Set 3

The specific problems assigned for each drill set are listed starting

on page 12. Please note that sometimes drill sets will include prob-

lems that you have seen in previous practice exams.

Drills (in order assigned)

List of Assignments

Here is a list of the lessons, drills, and practice exams to be completed.

About Drilling

Think of drilling as the LSAT equiv-

alent of the hours an athlete spends

working in the gym on different parts of

his or her skill set—it’s the less glamor-

ous part of your prep, but it’s also argu-

ably the most important—it’s the part

of the process where you actually get

good at the LSAT.

Toward the beginning of your practice,

it’s best to do smaller sets of problems,

so that when you go to review (more

on review in just a bit) the process of

how you solved a particular problem,

or a particular game, is still fresh in your

mind. If you review your work every

fifth Logical Reasoning question, rath-

er than every twentieth, for example,

your memory of how you solved any

one particular problem will be far more

accurate, and your personal critique of

this process more impactful. Later on

in your practice, I recommend that you

start drilling longer and longer sets of

problems, so that you can ramp up the

development of habits, and strengthen

your mental endurance.

Similarly, I recommend that at the be-

ginning of your prep, you mostly drill

small sets of like problems—Logical

Reasoning questions all of one type,

for example, or Logic Games that all

share a lot of characteristics in com-

mon. As you get deeper into your prep,

you want to start mixing up the ques-

tion types more and more. The intent

of this progression is to first develop

specific skills that are fine-tuned for

specific instances, and then to get

gradually better and better at bringing

your skills together.

MAIN GOALS

develop effective skills

develop effective habits

skills that allow you to handle the big and small challenges thrown your way

habits that help you utilize the right skills at the right time

About Practice Tests

Your LSAT preparation should also in-

clude full practice exams. Let’s quickly

discuss the changing role that practice

tests should play during the various

stages of your preparation.

At the beginning of your studying ,

it’s best to take one or two practice ex-

ams so that you can start developing a

more accurate sense of what the test is

actually like, and so that you can start

to develop a sense of which areas you

need to work on most.

For most students, the initial score

is not of very much importance—it’s

about as predictive as your first at-

tempt at bowling or playing chess.

So don’t worry about it too much (I

know—easier said than done). Cor-

rectly allocating study time is an im-

portant part of studying well, and prac-

tice exams are extremely clarifying in

terms of helping you determine where

you need to invest your time and ener-

gy. So, make sure you use your practice

exams to figure out what you need to

work on most.

I also recommend taking one or two

practice exams in the middle stages

of your preparation , so that you can

keep the ultimate end task—the big

challenge that you’re up against—as

visceral as possible. The tests you take

in the middle of your preparation also

serve to help you assess where you are

making more progress and where you

are making less.

Keep in mind that it’s very, very com-

mon for scores to fluctuate in these

early stages—you should not take such

fluctuations to mean dramatic shifts

in your abilities (“Yes, I got much bet-

ter! Oh no, I got much worse!”); rath-

er, they are more indicative of the fact

that you are changing your processes

(as you should) and, because you are

in the middle of a transformation, you

should expect inconsistent results. Of

far more concern would be a series of

practice exams with very similar results

(which would be a fairly strong indica-

tion of you not changing).

Toward the end of your prepara-

tion , practice tests (and the review of

them—more about review on the next

page) should become your first priori-

ty. Up to this point, you’ve spent a lot

of time building up individual skills, and

now you’ll want to work on bringing

them together. The challenge of know-

ing when to utilize particular skills, and

the challenge of jumping from one type

of task to another, are not easy ones,

and practice exams are the best way to

get better and better at bringing your

various skills together.

Additionally, you’ll want to make sure

to utilize these final practice exams

to firm up your overall test strategies,

especially your timing strategies. The

vast majority of test takers go into the

exam with half-baked timing strate-

gies, and utilize their time inefficiently

during the exam. If you can go in with

practiced and habitual test strategies,

it will give you a significant advantage.

Especially as you get closer and closer

to the exam, you want to take every

practice test as realistically as possible.

A common issue, and something to

avoid, is developing one set of “prac-

tice habits” and one set of “real-time

habits;” that is, one way of solving

questions when you are relaxed, and

a different way of solving them when

you are under pressure. Do your best to

mimic the pressure of the exam during

your practice exams as realistically as

possible, and you can mitigate this is-

sue.

MAIN GOALS

to evaluate

to prepare for test day

develop a more accurate sense of the exam and of your own strengths and weaknesses

get ready to represent your skills at their best