
Anyone studying for the LSAT should start by signing up to use the free preparation tools at lawhub.lsac.org that include lessons, drill sets, and practice tests. However, research shows that taking full practice tests is the most effective way to prepare for the LSAT and should be a cornerstone of your study plan.
The current LSAT is taken on a computer, either remotely or in a testing center, and there are a variety of ways to use the online interface to increase your chances of answering the questions correctly, such as: ruling out answers, highlighting passages, setting screen preferences, and more. By watching the videos in this course, you will not only learn the reading comprehension, logic, critical thinking, and test-taking skills necessary to succeed on the LSAT, you will most importantly learn how to most effectively and efficiently use the online interface to boost your performance.
The videos in this course explain how to answer each and every question in LSAT practice test 157 which contains one scored Reading Comprehension section, two scored Logical Reasoning sections, and a third experimental Logical Reasoning section with no logic games section. Every explanation provides instruction on how to solve the individual question task of the problem as well as identifying discrete reasons to eliminate each incorrect option in the answer choices.
Identify the primary purpose from highlighted sentences and evaluate answer choices for Question one, focusing on how the Freedom Rides and sit-ins transformed the civil rights movement.
Analyze why the discussion highlights the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee as an outgrowth of the sit-ins in the third paragraph of the first passage, within LSAT prep reading comprehension.
Identify the author’s view on the Freedom Rides in LSAT Prep Test 157, Passage 1, Question 5 by using highlighted main idea sentences to evaluate options and eliminate distractors.
Compare prescriptive and descriptive grammarians and their language views, noting data as singular and the two descriptivists’ objections to prescriptivism: scientific and egalitarian.
Explore how the prescriptivist defense of language standards is strengthened in LSAT prep test 157, passage 2, through prediction and evidence addressing descriptivist objections and standard language usage.
Turn no reference questions into a main idea task by focusing on highlighted sentences; compare prescriptivists and descriptivists, using data as singular and etymology to reveal persuasion in language regulation.
Analyze why the author uses 'article of faith' to signal the lack of evidence about descriptivists, contrasting with prescriptivists and the laws of linguistic change versus physics.
Explains prescriptivist views on language, highlighting that a word's origins should inform current usage and that prescriptivists seek to distinguish correct usage.
Tackle hidden main idea questions in LSAT reading by using highlighted sentences to eliminate options, while examining prescriptivism versus descriptivism in grammar and data as a singular noun.
Explore the final passage question on prescriptivists vs descriptivists, showing that descriptivists fail to recognize how their approach may undermine egalitarian ideas; the correct answer is option C.
Master this upfront, passage-first approach for LSAT dual passages by reading each text, highlighting main ideas and background, as shown with a sunken treasure article and a UNESCO UCH draft.
Analyze which option strengthens critics of for-profit archaeology and the draft convention, arguing that selling artifacts harms scholarly analysis and public display.
Analyze a dual-passage LSAT question by identifying which policies regarding UCH Passage B supports and highlighting the single exception to determine the correct answer.
Identify the distinction between cultural items and coins that recurs across passages to guide LSAT main idea analysis. Illustrate how underwater cultural heritage governance clarifies applying this distinction to choices.
Analyze a dual passage LSAT question on passage A and B, identifying the best company response to the UNESCO draft convention, specifically regarding selling recovered coins to fund the project.
Identify the best analogy in LSAT reading comprehension by comparing a newspaper article's current circumstance to the codes that govern building projects.
Explore how to read the final passage of LSAT Prep Test 157's reading comprehension section, highlight main ideas, and assess the exports promotion hypothesis and its weak supporting evidence.
Explore how environmentalists argue that international debt depletes natural resources and harms spending, examine the exports promotion hypothesis, and evaluate the weak evidence for these claims.
Explore the author's attitude toward reductions in domestic spending to repay international debt, highlighting how fiscal discipline and economic restructuring may rein in potentially harmful spending.
Explain the exports promotion hypothesis, which argues that producing export goods diverts resources from domestic sectors to boost foreign trade. Highlight how this approach yields more goods produced.
Critically examines the environmentalist arguments about international debt, showing weak evidence in the second paragraph and guiding readers to evaluate the author's critique.
Analyze how debt shapes a nation's quality of life by connecting environmental health to indicators like pollution and resource depletion in LSAT reading passages.
Analyze passage 4 question 27 by identifying the author's view on government policy and the debt-environment link, using targeted elimination and highlighting to improve LSAT reading comprehension.
Learn to identify must-be-true in LSAT inference questions by highlighting each statement, marking the task, and systematically eliminating choices to select the correct option.
This LSAT prep walkthrough shows how to weaken the economist's reasoning about overseas capital; option B reveals that restricting capital removal discourages new investment, undermining the recommendation.
Identify the conclusion that learning about other cultures probably will not satisfy the longing for emotional connection, as the internet is used primarily for acquiring information rather than developing interconnectedness.
Compare moon mesons traveling near light speed to laboratory mesons nearly at rest, and identify the most logical completion in LSAT prep test 157 section 2 question 7.
Identify the parallel-structure reasoning in a buyer's argument by analyzing two necessary conditions—fashionable and not too expensive—and determine the conclusion that the buyer will not buy the dress.
Analyze section 2, question 9 of LSAT prep test 157 using a highlight technique to identify the conclusion and flaw in memory-retention reasoning between one-month and three-month break lengths.
Identify the flaw in the argument's reasoning by analyzing conditionals and distinguishing necessary versus sufficient conditions, using an LSAT-style approach to locate the conclusion and detect improper reversals.
Strengthen the argument that human-like precursors hunted by citing 400,000-year-old sharpened wooden poles found beside horses and flint-cutting implements.
Identify the conclusion by inferring from three facts in the paragraph about mass production, purchasing power, and job security, then select the option that follows.
Examine the LSAT prep test 157 section 2 lecture 16 argument about under-six children and pets, identifying the necessary assumption that animals are independent and understood before ownership.
Explore the flaw in the LSAT argument that a short olocranon process implies predation, showing why Megatherium being a predator cannot be concluded from that trait.
Analyze the principle that best justifies the essayist's reasoning, and conclude that all commitments are morally neutral because some commitments deserve no praise.
Identify necessary assumptions in LSAT prep section two lecture twenty four by linking monitoring to expensive bonuses, reading stems, and highlighting conclusions for efficient analysis.
Learn to tackle LSAT logic reasoning questions from Prep Test 157 section 3 by identifying the argument's conclusion, predicting how to strengthen it, and efficiently eliminating answer choices.
Identify the conclusion in LSAT Prep Test 157, section 3 by distinguishing facts from opinions and highlighting the conclusion. Cross-check the answer choices to determine which expresses that conclusion.
Practice identifying what must be at issue in PrepTest 157's logic section by highlighting each speaker's statements to find where they disagree.
Identify the task and strengthen the link between the principle and its application by evaluating which choice shows all the use intended in an LSAT prep test 157 scenario.
Highlight the conclusion, make a mental prediction of a weakness, and evaluate answer choices to weaken the argument in LSAT prep test 157 section 3, lecture 6.
Practice inferring facts from a news report using color-coded highlighting to differentiate statements. Evaluate answer choices to determine what is guaranteed true about compound and non-compound television screens.
Explore the method of argument test in LSAT prep, analyzing how the statement about early humans transitioning to agriculture functions as a premise supporting the anthropologist's conclusion.
Analyze the flaw in extending the trespass law to cyberspace, showing the analogy rests on verbal similarities rather than substantive evidence.
Identify how the claim that increased genetic variation is not advantageous for individuals serves as support for the conclusion about sexual reproduction in an LSAT prep method-of-argument question.
Analyze LSAT Prep Test 157 section 3 question 12's flaw that vagrancy laws transform innocuous occurrences into crimes, revealing the term shift from criminal activity to crimes.
This lecture identifies the assumption that people who pursue their own welfare in a reasoned way injure others less, linking it to the claim that government power should be reduced.
This LSAT prep section shows how to identify the conclusion that ants improve orchid health and how to find an alternative explanation, leading to the correct choice (C).
Highlight the question stem in this section on parallel reasoning, identify three facts as statements of fact, then color-code and use process of elimination to select the matching principle.
Learn to solve LSAT Prep Test 157 section 3 question 18 using highlight colors to distinguish the affirmative resolution from exception and explain why PC margins stay low despite demand.
Identify an assumption the argument depends on, using the negation test to narrow options, as a study links coffee intake to processing speed and integration.
Identify and evaluate logical inferences in LSAT Prep Test 157 section 3, focusing on moral excellence and moral virtue, using highlight-based analysis to select the conclusion that follows logically.
Identify the role of the claim there is no language for describing how one joy differs from another in the philosopher's argument, using color-coded highlights to mark conclusion and premise.
Examine a parallel flaw in a LSAT logical reasoning argument, focusing on identifying conclusion, tracking quantifiers, and highlighting patterns to compare short documentary and full-length science fiction film success.
Plot passages, prioritize questions, and use upfront reads with highlights to identify the main idea. Motown example illustrates Gordy, Detroit public schools, and electric instruments shaping music history.
Learn efficient LSAT reading strategies for section 4 passage 4: upfront highlighting, identifying main ideas, and mapping the author's stance on copyright versus software patents.
In this LSAT video review course MyGuru's Director of Instruction, Stefan Maisnier, an expert with more than a decade of LSAT tutoring experience, demonstrates how to engage and address each individual question from LSAT PrepTest 157, one of four official practice tests available for free at the LawHub resource offered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) which administers the LSAT. PrepTest 157 is a new format LSAT Preptest with no logic games section. Its sections come from Preptest 93 (Sections 1, 2 and 3) and PrepTest 91 (Section 4). These preptests were administered in June 2020* and May 2020* originally. Section 4 is the experimental section, which does not count towards your score. It is included in order to let you simulate a four-section practice test – the questions themselves are no different in style than the scored sections. Before viewing any explanations in this course, you should complete PrepTest 157 using the official digital interface at provided at LawHub, but you can watch the introduction to this course first for instructions on how to maximize your practice at the LawHub using blind test review.
In each of the Logical Reasoning explanation videos, Stefan discusses how to use logic and critical thinking to predict what correct answers should broadly do to accomplish the question task or use the highlighting tools to track facts for valid inferences without wasting time by engaging scratch paper to diagram conditional logic. As for Reading Comprehension, for the scored first section, four passage up-front read videos illustrate how to use the highlighting tools provided by the official exam interface to force engagement and understanding of the obscure content that the LSAT features before individual videos for every question demonstrate how to effectively engage with each individual Reading Comprehension question task. Then for the experimental Section 4 Reading Comprehension, four long-form videos showing how to fully engage each passage from the up-front read to the last question of the passage provide a comprehensive demonstration of how to engage a Reading Comprehension passage. We also explain how to use the highlighting tools to focus not only on why the correct answer matches the construct of each scenario, but why each incorrect answer is definitely wrong to encourage a high level of accuracy on future practice exams and the official LSAT.
This course is an unparalleled feedback tool to help you identify what you did wrong when you missed a question, and/or how to more efficiently and effectively approach questions that you may have actually answered correctly. It is not a replacement for LSAT prep materials from LawHub or other test prep providers, but it is a valuable, low-cost way to get video instruction on how to approach actual LSAT problems in the online platform you'll be using when you take the actual LSAT.