Week One

Logical Reasoning

Goal:
∙ Learn the core logical concepts and practice extracting them from the
subject matter.
To do:
□ Start your LR training by diving into one of the most important concepts:
conditional statements.
Two □ Why? This is one of the most commonly tested concepts in LR, show-
ing up in roughly 20% of the LR questions on a given exam. But it
Month takes time to master these.
□ Start by learning what conditional statements are (they are, in short, just

LSAT “if-then” statements), how to diagram them, how to make inferences

using them.

Study
□ Focus especially on the words and phrases that express “sufficiency” and
“necessity.” Make flashcards, use quizzing apps, construct a “memory pal-
ace” — do whatever you have to do to master conditional language. Then
Plan take it to actual questions.
□ So-called Must Be True and Soft Must Be True questions frequently
involve conditional statements.
□ While you are at, practice the Must Be True and Soft Must Be Trues that
don’t involve diagramming as well.
Week □ To do that, you’ll need to brush up on another common LR concept:
One logical force. (By the way, whenever you’re learning a new technique,
like diagramming or logical force, or practicing a new question type,
focus on accuracy. Don’t worry about how long these questions are
taking you at first. Just make sure you’re practicing sound approaches
that help you get the right answer.)
Week □ Extra credit: Master diagramming’s cousin, quantified logic.
Two
Key ideas: Conditional statements, inferences, Must Be True, Soft Must Be ?
True, logical force.
Week
Three Reading Comprehension
Goal:
∙ Learn to think about the author.
Week To do:
Four □ Focus on just one part of the passage: the author.
□ Don’t worry about all the nitty, gritty details in that passage. Try to ask
yourself:
□ What does the author think about the topic?
□ Does the author have a viewpoint?
Week □ Are they expressing any opinions about the topic? Disagreeing with
Five any alternative viewpoints? And, how strongly are they expressing
their views?
□ Make sure you can answer all the questions that relate to the author’s
view, main point/main idea, primary purpose, attitude, and beliefs for
Weeks each passage you work through.
Six &
Seven Key idea: Author’s viewpoint.
 Week Two

Logical Reasoning

Self-check:
∙ You should feel comfortable working with conditional statements at this
point.
Goal:
∙ Learn to apply conditional statements in arguments.
To do:
Two □ First you need to learn how to break down arguments, so you can identify
their premises (evidence) and conclusions (main points).
Month □ To do this, learn the language of premises and conclusions. This is a fun-
damental skill for the vast majority of LR questions, so make sure you’re
LSAT taking this step seriously.
□ Study common argumentative strategies, including analogies, applying

Study principles, and using counterexamples

□ Main Point, Role, and Describe questions are great practice for getting

Plan used to arguments. (If you can consistently find the conclusion on a Main
Point question, the role played by a given statement on a Role question,
or the argumentative strategy employed on a Describe question, you can
do this on any other question too.)
□ Practice Flaw questions. These are the most common questions in LR,
and the tools you use to figure them out apply to all other question types.
Week □ Use each Flaw question as an opportunity to identify which common
One fallacy is being committed in that argument.
□ Make sure you have the most common fallacies — causation, exclusivity,
equivocation, and comparison fallacies — down pat.

Week Reading Comprehension

Two
Self-check:
∙ You should be very comfortable discerning the author’s opinions in these
passages.
Goal:
Week ∙ Learn how to break down and annotate the structure of a passage.
Three To-do:
□ Practice annotating the structure of the passage.
□ Each paragraph has a role, and your ability to identify the role is tested in
organization questions. To figure out the role, you can ask:
□ Is this paragraph introducing a viewpoint?
Week □ Providing evidence that supports an earlier viewpoint?
Four □ Discussing an alternative viewpoint?
□ Making a concession?
□ Discussing the implications of new scientific discoveries?
□ Practice “tagging” the answer to these questions as succinctly as you can.
□ Making these “tags” in your passage will help you answer all the orga-
Week nization questions, and they should also help you reference parts of the
Five passage to collect the information you’ll need to answer the questions
about specific details from the passage.

Weeks
Six &
Seven
 Week Three

Logical Reasoning
Goal:
∙ Learn about Parallel, Parallel Flaw, Strengthen, and Weaken questions.
To do:
∙ Learn about Parallel Flaw questions and Parallel questions.
∙ These questions lend themselves to diagrams, usually through condition-
al statements.
Two ∙ Practice diagramming each argument and apply conditional statements.
∙ Next up are Strengthen and Weaken questions.
Month ∙ Strengthen/Weaken questions either focus on the causal relationship or
a flaw in the argument.

LSAT ∙ Study up on cause and effect to learn how to strengthen and weaken
causal relationships.

Study ∙ When there’s a flaw, practice anticipating how to fix the problem (on
Strengthen questions) or exploit that problem (on Weaken questions).
∙ Extra credit: Practice doing an uncommon relative of the Strengthen
Plan and Weaken questions: the “Crux” question (which asks you to find the
answer choice that would be most “useful” or “helpful” in evaluating an
argument).

Week Reading Comprehension

One Goal:
∙ Practice identifying the sub-structures used in reading comprehension.
Learning these sub-structures will help you answer the detail oriented
questions way more consistently.
Week To do:
Two □ Learn about how the LSAT uses cause and effect relationships in reading
comp.
□ Learn how examples can illustrate the speaker’s point.
□ Practice with an eye out for the way the LSAT is illustrating the general
point. Look specifically for examples and C&E relationships, but there are
Week more to come!
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 Week Four

Logical Reasoning
Goal:
∙ Learn to tackle Sufficient and Necessary assumption questions.
∙ Start working on your timing
To do:
□ Practice Sufficient and Necessary questions
□ These questions are hard, but here’s a Pro-Tip! Keep an eye out for any
Two new information presented in the conclusion — new info often points
straight to the answer
Month □ The LSAT is a timed test, so it’s important to practice with realistic time
constraints.

LSAT □ Ramp up to full timed sections gradually

□ Start by trying to do ten LR questions in 20 minutes. It might feel fast!

Study □ If you can still answer the questions accurately at that pace, try ten ques-
tions in 18 minutes. The goal is to get through 10 questions in 15 minutes
without losing any accuracy. If you’re losing accuracy, slow it down!
Plan
Reading Comprehension
Goal:
Week ∙ Learn how to work through comparative passages — reading compre-
hension passages based on a pair of passages that have some sort of
One relationship.
To do:
□ Practice comparative passages
□ Comparative passages require you to keep a few more things in mind,
Week but you should work on sorting out where the passages agree and dis-
agree with each other.
Two □ Look out for specific details that occur in both passages.
□ Look for contradictions or disagreement between the passages.

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 Week Five

Logical Reasoning

Goal:
∙ Ease into full LR sections. If you’re able to do 10 questions in 15 minutes,
you’re ready to start doing full, timed sections.
To do:
□ Give yourself 35 minutes to complete a section from an old exam.
□ Feel out your timing strategy – typically it’s important to get through the
Two easier questions at the beginning of the section faster, so you have some
extra time to work through the harder ones at the end.
Month □ Practice strategically skipping questions – wasting five minutes on one
question is never worth it!
LSAT Reading Comprehension
Study Goal:
Plan ∙ Work on timing.
To do:
□ Ease into timing by starting with two passages in twenty-four minutes.
□ If you can keep your accuracy, reduce the time a bit.
□ Your target is to do two passages accurately in about seventeen or eigh-
Week teen minutes.
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Week Six and Week Seven

Goal:
∙ Figure out your testing strategy – there’s not one approach for everyone,
Week and you need to experiment with different strategies to find what works
Two best for you.
∙ Get ready for test day!
To do:
□ Practice tests!
Week □ After each exam, follow the same procedure.
□ Score the exam, and then put it away for the rest of the day.
Three □ The next day, try the LR questions you missed again, and re-do the
games and passage you did worse than usual. (untimed, without know-
ing the answers)
□ If you’re able to get most of those questions right on try number two,
Week that’s a sign that it was just the time pressure that led you to miss those
questions. Which means you should get some more timed practice.
Four □ If you miss a question on attempt number two, that’s a sign that you
should review the approach to that question, passage, or game, and get
some untimed practice.

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