The bundles don't appear to come with explanations, and the Kaplan Mastery book's explanations are lacking (they're the same explanations Kaplan gives out in its course, which often explain wrong answer choices as simply being "out of scope").

However, my site has a variety of detailed LSAT explanations covering most PrepTests available for PDF download.

I'm just confused as to which 3 "more LSAT tests" to buy because there are 4 on their website --> https://os.lsac.org/Release/Shop/Publications.aspx

Also, where do I find the 10 most recent PTs?

Sorry, I'm new here and trying to order this stuff ASAP.

Here are the 4 books of 10 PrepTests each (when pithy wrote his guide, only the 1st 3 books below existed):

10 Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests (PrepTests 7, 9-16, 18)

10 More Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests (PrepTests 19-28)

The Next 10 Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests (PrepTests 29-38)

10 New Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests (PrepTests 52-61)

You can also get many of the PrepTests, including the newest ones, for instant PDF download. 62 and up are not yet in a book of 10.

Hope this helps!

Thank you so much!

Just purchased everything...a little over $200 from Amazon which I don't think is bad considering that most of them are new. I didn't want to buy books with lots of markings and notes.

I haven't even began studying for the LSAT and I know very little about it. I hope this method will prepare me by June 2012. Is this feasible?

Pithypike,

Do you have an ISBN for the Kaplan Mastery? There's plenty out there under the same title, so I'm trying to find which one is best.

Thanks

I just wanted to thank everyone (especially Pithypike, obviously!) so much for the help. I have the LG and LR bibles and finally finished making copies of all of the LG's and now I'm off to the coffee shop to study.

I was really intimidated by the test before I found this thread, now I see it as a tough, but beatable challenge. It's time to put in the work. Thanks again guys!

Hello everyone, it seems Pithy has been absent for a little while so I could really use your help. I bought all of the recommended books on this guide, and I started studying yesterday for about an hour...I'm still completing my undergrad so I don't have free hours daily yet but that will soon change.

Anyway, am I supposed to be studying all three (LG, LR, RC) every day or study them in blocks? Someone asked this on here earlier but no one answered. I assume I should go through the entire LRB and LGB but do I do this simultaneously or finish one and move on to the other?

Also, what exactly do I photocopy? Every single game? Between the Kaplan mastery, the four Top 10 PT books and the practice games in the LGB, that's a lot of photocopies. If someone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. Testing in February!

Thanks

I did all of one then all of the other. And yes, it's a lot of photocopies, but that also means a lot of practice for you to get a consistent -0.

Okay, thanks for clearing that up! I'm currently going through the LRB and LGB simultaneously. I'm planning on doing some RC at the end of this month but I'm trying to go month-to-month like this was laid out. I have about 4 months until the February LSAT so I think that's a sufficient amount of time.

Just a quick question - would it be better to use the first booklet of tests that pithypike recommended when he created this thread, or to accumulate ten of the newer (40-49) practice tests instead? Does it make a difference? I thought it would be better to work with the newest tests consistently, but I am looking for some feedback.

Thank you!

Anyone do pithypikes? How does it compare to LSATBLOGs 5 month day by day? I'm taking the June test

So should I read all 3 bibles first then attack this guide? Or am I understanding it correctly that you read for ex a chapter in the LR bible then do the corresponding problems? Then read the next ch, and so on?

Sorry if this has been covered before, but what can sub in for the Kaplan Mastery book?

So, do you take the first 30 tests and do the sections corresponding with the bibles for the first 2 months, and then spend the last month exclusively doing the most recent 10 & reviewing?

I was just going to go through the bible first, and then just do all 40 PTs with review in between.

Halfway through the first group of LG games (linear), when do I start reviewing games I've done, or do I just go through all 20 or so of them for the 1st time, then review all of them. Probably do a few, review those few, do a few more, review those, then when done with the whole 20 of them, go through them a second time, chunk by chunk, with reviewing them like the first time, right?

Thanks

nvm

So where it says "PT-44" are you suggesting we practice LG during month 1 only using PT 44?

Perfect time to buy all this stuff on Amazon right now, they're offering free 2 day shipping if you have a .edu email. Just make sure you disable autoupgrade in your account after you purchase, otherwise they'll charge you for an Amazon Prime membership in 6 months.

Now that there are 65 prep tests available, does anyone prefer the Cambridge bundle that includes the first 38 tests grouped by type within LR, LG, and RC over the Pithypike advice to get Kaplan Mastery and the preptests separately? Would the optimal study plan now include an additional month to account for the ~10 Preptests that have been released since his study plan?

With 31 full-length tests (including Superprep A, B, and C, and "51.5") how many do you put aside for individual sections and how many do you take as PT? I was thinking to either leave 12 or 16 for PT and then fill a fifth section from the other tests and take the rest as individual sections. That leaves 12 or 16 five-section PT and 16 or 11 preptests that include four remaining sections. I am just not confident about whether I will need more PT or individual sections for my self-study. The Pithypike method leaves ample sections available for timing, but then how much spoilage exists across LR sections and Kaplan Mastery? I don't see the value in timing sections with questions that you have already gone through whilst drilling.

Also, if you are going through the RC as grouped by Cambridge, would you go through the different types of passages all at once or separately (i.e. work on the first passage for each type before the second for each type and so on and so forth, or complete all the Humanities (or whichever section you choose) before doing the other types)?

And finally, does anyone know the conversion for Powerscore and Cambridge classifications for LR and LG? I still intend to consult the LRB and LGB throughout.

How do you guys handle games that you just didnt get the first time around. I've completed the logic bible and am doing drills now from the PTs and occasionally come across a problem I am having difficulty setting up/drawing inferences.

Sure you have the right answers at the end of the test booklet but theres no explanations of how a proper set up should be ect? Do you somehow just work backwards with the answers? Or there any explanatory materials for the prep tests?

Manhattan LSAT's forum has explanations for every game. Good resource. Should always try and work it through yourself though!

Just want to throw in another drop of support for this method for LG - I did the first two months over 3-4 months (I am a full time student with a full time job, so I had to spread it out). I was worried at first, because there was a large period of time in which I hadn't taken any full LG sections, but now that I am focusing on the LSAT and taking full LG sections I am finishing 5-10 minutes early on each section and getting 0-1 wrong every single time (before I was typically getting perfect scores but not finishing the last game).

This shit works. I didn't try the LR and RC methods that he prescribes, though.

The Kaplan Mastery book uses questions from many old PTs from the earliest exams up to the 40s. From what I've seen, it doesn't include any questions from the 50s and up, but some folks may be looking to use the 40s for timed sections for full-length practice exams closer to Test Day.

(Keep in mind that Mastery Practice fails to make some important distinctions. It doesn't differentiate between "Must Be True" and "Most Strongly Supported" questions (it lumps them together under "Inference"), nor does it distinguish between "Necessary Assumption" and "Sufficient Assumption" questions (it lumps them together under "Assumption"). Let me know if you'd like details on the differences between these question-types.)

In my study plans, I reserve questions from the older exams for untimed practice so that you can use questions from the newer exams for timed practice (to avoid mixing). I agree that there wouldn't be much value in drilling LR Qs to which you've already been exposed.

I'm very confused as to how Pithypike is dividing the LG categories. He says the categories are:

Basic Linear - Balanced (23)
Basic Linear - Overloaded (5)
Basic Linear - Underfunded (5)
Advanced Linear - Balanced (25)
Advanced Linear - Overloaded (4)
Advanced Linear - Underfunded (7)
Grouping - Defined - Fixed - Balanced (10)
Grouping - Defined - Fixed - Overloaded (11)
Grouping - Defined - Fixed - Underfuned (5)
Grouping - Defined - Moving - Balanced (14)
Grouping - Defined - Moving - Overloaded (2)
Grouping - Partially Defined (9)
Grouping - Undefined (6)
Rare Game Types:
Grouping/Linear Combination (8)
Pattern Games (6)
Pure Sequencing (6) Note-much more common in modern games - pay attention
Mapping (3)
Circular Linearity (2)


Then he says to ") Do each LGB section in order and work on the respective game types as you progress. "

I don't understand what he means by "Respective" games. For example, the first section of the LGB is "Rule Origin"...but he doesn't list "Rule Origin" as one of the LG classifications, so how do I know what Logic Games to work on for this section? The same applies to Question Stem and Two Rule Inference..

Can somebody explain this to me?