Law School News and LSAT Strategy

For LSAT hopefuls, the Reading Comprehension section can feel like a maze of complex details. Success often hinges on one key skill: identifying the main idea of a passage. In a recent video tutorial, “How to Identify a LSAT Reading Comp Passage Main Idea Using LSAT PrepTest 158 Section 1, Question 1,” viewers learn how to pinpoint the main idea efficiently—a critical technique for high scores. This blog post dives into the insights shared in the video and offers a practical strategy for tackling main idea questions with confidence.

For LSAT test-takers, reading comprehension can be a make-or-break section, often filled with dense, detail-laden passages. One critical strategy is the "up-front reading" method, which helps you focus on the main ideas and author's purpose without getting bogged down in every detail. This blog post covers insights from a video analyzing LSAT PrepTest 158’s first reading comprehension passage, with a step-by-step guide on how to approach such passages effectively.

As we've previously written about, this summer, the LSAC quietly ended its partnership with Khan Academy and all free official LSAT prep materials are now available only at lawhub.lsac.org. Four official PrepTests are now offered, but these PrepTests do not offer explanations. So, it might be a good idea to save them for closer to your test day as a measure of how you're performing, instead of as a tool for learning and improving.

However, another resource, the official "Drill Sets", includes an extra 168 practice problems and the vast majority of them have never been included in prior LSAT prep materials.  This article is based on our YouTube playlist on Lawhub's logical reasoning drill set #1.

One of the more astonishing things about preparing for the LSAT since the test went fully digital is how many online resources act as if it were still delivered as a pen and paper exam. Question explanations and how-tos talk about physically underlining or printing out multiple versions of a PrepTest when the test has been fully digital for five full years! In this article, we're going to talk about how you can get the most out of the 50+ LSAT PrepTests available from lawhub.lsac.org by executing the process known as a blind review for the current, computer-based version of the exam that is comprised solely of Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension sections.

With the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) retiring the Analytical Reasoning (Logic Games) section following the June 2024 official LSAT administration, the Reading Comprehension section has gained significance for all law school candidates, since it is now one of only two sections on the test. At the same time, most LSAT preppers have often spent the least amount of time focusing on Reading Comprehension believing that it is the section with the fewest techniques to learn. Unless you are used to reading and highlighting paragraphs digitally that couldn't be further from the truth.

This summer, the LSAC quietly ended its partnership with Khan Academy and all free official LSAT prep materials are now available only at lawhub.lsac.org. Four official PrepTests can be taken for free, but as most LSAT students know, those PrepTests do not offer explanations, and if you're wanting to use those practice materials judiciously, it might be a good idea to save them for closer to your test day. However, another resource, the official "Drill Sets", includes 14 additional passages and nearly 100 practice problems, the vast majority of them have never been included in prior LSAT prep materials.