Use Free Lawhub Reading Comprehension Drill Sets to Begin Your LSAT Prep

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.

Anyone who signs up for a free account at lawhub.lsac.org will be able to access these questions and the officially sanctioned explanations by navigating to LSAT Prep on the left side navigation and then selecting the "Drill Sets" tab on the top of the screen. These drills allow preppers to ask for answer hints or peruse tips and strategy videos or documents to help learn the processes for each of the Reading Comprehension passage topics and question types on the LSAT before attempting one of those four fully timed practice exams.

How to use the Lawhub Drill Sets

First, don't hit "Submit" until the end, instead just click the next and back arrows at the bottom right of the window. Hitting "Submit" at any time during your drill will automatically end the drill wherever you are. All of the highlighting, underlining, elimination, and find text tools however should function exactly as they will on test day, so use them to become familiar with them before attempting a full PrepTest.

Timing for the drills is solely tracked by a count-up soccer (or football for anyone who isn't a native to the United States or Australia) style timer, and unfortunately the tool doesn't track individual question times. That said, for at least your first few drills, we recommend not really caring about the pace of the drill sets - accuracy before efficiency, after all. After a few untimed sets, you can aim to complete each of the 12-question sets in under 20 minutes to begin holding yourself to the approximately one minute and 20 second question average of the exam. 

The drill sets can be taken as many times as you like, and you can even skip to specific question types using our question catalog to focus on the exact types of questions or difficulties that you want to target for improvement. That said, while the explanations are absolutely viable, they are often a bit over-explained, so you'll want to highlight specific reasons each incorrect option is wrong to improve your Reading Comprehension accuracy and efficiency.

We highly recommend using these tools to give yourself a free leg up on prep for the now Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension only version of the LSAT, and please consider contacting us for a free tutoring consultation if you need help beyond what is available at Lawhub!