November 1st, 2011: Application Deadline
November 30th, 2011: Document Deadline
December: Last acceptable LSAT writing
February: Last LSAT for indiv. consideration
November 30th, 2011: Application Deadline
January 15th, 2012: Document Deadline
February/Dec: Last acceptable LSAT writing
Feb LSAT may prejudice admissions
Note: LSAT not required
November 1st, 2011: Application Deadline + Transcripts
February 1st, 2012: Fall 2011 Grades Deadline
June 30, 2012: Final transcripts
February: Last acceptable LSAT writing
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that
applicants write the LSAT no later than
December 2011. Since the results of
the February LSAT will not be available
until late March, applicants who write the
February 2012 LSAT may prejudice their
chance of admission.
Confused about LSAT strategies? Getting conflicting advice from friends, textbooks, blogs, and LSAT prep courses?
There is a plethora of LSAT resources out there and they don’t all agree on the best way to tackle a question, diagram a logic game or even read a passage. And with all the wonderful advice you can glean from lawyers, law students and self proclaimed LSAT experts, it can be tough to break through to the “best” strategies for the LSAT.
For the rest of the videos in this series and the full text of this LSAT logic game and questions as well as more videos and explanations check out our free trial online LSAT Prep Course.
This video explains how to set up the diagram for the third logic game in the analytical reasoning section of the June 2007 LSAT exam.
The game deals with the voyages of cruise ship Freedom to Guadelupe, Jamaica, Martinique and Trinidad.
A cruise line is scheduling seven week-long voyages for the
ship Freedom. Each voyage will occur in exactly one of the
first seven weeks of the season: weeks 1 through 7. Each
voyage will be to exactly one of four destinations:
Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, or Trinidad. Each
destination will be scheduled for at least one of the weeks. The
following conditions apply to Freedom’s schedule:
Jamaica will not be its destination in week 4.
Trinidad will be its destination in week 7.
Freedom will make exactly two voyages to Martinique,
and at least one voyage to Guadeloupe will occur in some
week between those two voyages.
Guadeloupe will be its destination in the week preceding
any voyage it makes to Jamaica.
No destination will be scheduled for consecutive weeks.
The video analyzes how to set up this game using Alpha Score’s method for setting up any logic game.
In 2010 171,500 students took the LSAT, that is the most LSATs administered in the last 20 years. Do you think more people taking the LSAT has any effect on your LSAT score?
Sleep could be the single most important factor left to affect your LSAT score. (Stress may rival sleep as a key factor at this point see more on stress reduction) At this point there’s not much time left to study, but the amount of sleep you get leading up the the LSAT is very important.
This article takes a look at how to set up your LSAT sleep schedule with some diet, and other related factors to help you get your best LSAT sleep!
Many readers have asked how to improve their reading comprehension speed and score on the LSAT. Once you have a strategy down that allows you to identify and mark-up the key elements of the passages many people still run into a wall with respect to reading faster and more efficiently and gathering the relevant information while not getting slowed down by the irrelevant.
Here’s a strategy for improving your LSAT score. It doesn’t rely on tricks or techniques while you’re writing the test but instead focuses on how you make use of your LSAT practice exams.
The way in which you take and review your practice LSATs can have a huge impact on your score improvement. Many students simply take prep test after prep test or section after section and don’t stop to really understand and learn from the mistakes they have made. Proper review is essential for your improvement on the LSAT. Here’s one thorough method of reviewing your LSAT practice tests:
Here’s a quick drill technique that can help you improve your LSAT logic games scores.
Typically students continually try new logic games sections with just a cursory review before moving on to the next. This does little to improve your score or skills. With this drill you will repeat and review logic games sections until you fully understand them before moving on to the next. This ensures that when you encounter the next logic game similar to this one, you know exactly what to do.
If you’re looking for more lessons or logic games to implement this drill with, check out our online LSAT prep course.
Watch the video below for a full explanation of the drill technique:
Here’s a few suggestions to help you improve your speed on the LSAT
1. If you’re just going straight through from question 1 to 17 or so and then running out of time you need to force yourself to pick up the pace. This may seem like a blinding glimpse of the obvious but forcing yourself to read and answer faster will help. Focus on moving through the questions faster, keep an eye on the clock (not too frequently) and force yourself to move forward faster. At first you will see a drop in your accuracy but you will at least be attempting more questions. You’re often better to attempt more questions even if it means your success rate drops. Getting 70% of 25 questions right is better than 90% of 15 questions. Once you’ve Continue reading “How to Improve your Speed on the LSAT?”
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