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[TheLastBestWest]

I'm currently in my third-year of university and am looking for some advice regarding the LSAT.

I would like to write it this summer and would like to know how long I should study for and how to go about studying. How did you (people who took the LSAT) prepare for the test and for how long did you prepare. I've seems advertisments for prep courses; are these worth it or should I just study myself with an LSAT bible? Which leads me to another question: which books are best?

[staffer]

Did this really need to be titled "Help Please"?

The most reputable courses are Princeton Review, Kaplan, and Oxford Seminars. Many people on this site, including me, credit the PowerScore books combined with a strict practice regiment of regular practice tests and daily drills over the course of 1-2 months with effectively lifting our scores.

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[antioppressivepractice]

The time needed varies by person. I personally found the Powerscore Bibles very helpful. I also visit the LSAT Blog and have gotten the study guide which comes in various forms (3 month, 4 month etc). Another thing I like is the Cambridge Logical Reasoning and Logical Games by type. Basically it has all the games from PT 1-39 I believe grouped by type. Of course you can group them yourself too. I think starting off reading the Powerscore bibles is good, and working through the exercises in each chapter. Also do drills once you group all the questions. One thing you have to do is go through all the questions you got wrong and make sure you know exactly why you got them wrong. After you do enough drills do the full PT eventually timing yourself and always add in an extra session so it seems more like test day.

[whereverjustice]

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[Fletcher Reed]

I'm gonna chime in and recommend using www.acethelsat.com. It's the only thing that helped me substantially and was also the simplest and most natural way of thinking when it comes to a test like this. That and the Powerscore Logic Games Bible.

[KER_2012]

Whether you go the self-instruction route is take a course is really a mater of personal preference. But regardless of how you start, you need to get your hands on as many practice tests as you can (you can buy them in books of 10 at Chapters) and do them under timed conditions.