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Hi everyone. I'm currently studying for the September LSAT and am in a predicament. While I've gotten down 3/4 sections, I have used up all the RC passages from the earlier prep tests and am unfortunately still scoring in a range that I am not satisfied with. In order for me not to exhaust materials from fresh prep tests, I was going to ask if anyone knew of any websites/journals that I could use to practice these skills. I feel like reading through articles/passages similar to the ones on the LSAT and finding tone, point, conclusion, etc. will be beneficial. Anyone know where LSAT draws their articles from? Or where I could find articles that would be useful here? Thanks.

Scientific American. The Economist. Or really any academic journal.

I recommend The Economist, in print format only. I used to read/use The Economist for work and for some reason their articles used to kind of frustrate me because it's just bits and pieces of information, not enough to cite for research sometimes. However I've recently noticed that The Economist is super helpful in knowing a general gist of what is happening around the world. Have you ever encountered people who seemed to know what was going on everywhere in the world? Many of them tell me that they read The Economist to keep up with things. The first section of The Economist is full of short blurbs on daily global news.

The next sections of The Economist really mirrors the LSAT. I picked up a couple of copies of it at airports to keep myself busy and the print version is extremely similar to the LSAT RC section when it comes to length and format (the online version's html is not really conducive the the LSAT format). I have not really read enough to give you more details on exactly where they are similar and dissimilar, but each short article has a somewhat strong author opinion, tone, examples, conclusion, etc. I have seen TLS members recommend The Economist as well.

For the natural science section, I have read other peoples' recommendation on Scientific American, but I don't really read that so I don't have any opinion on that.

I think the GMAT has an RC section...might look into that.

Could be totally off though, never messed with the gmat.

Clearly wrote:I think the GMAT has an RC section...might look into that.

Could be totally off though, never messed with the gmat.

Works in a pinch, I tried it with one of my students who used up all the RC passages on his first take.

OP, there see also RC passages in the India exams (though I think they only have four answer choices per question). Could be worth reading the Times, not because the articles resemble passages (they don't), but because it can help you get comfortable with topics you may find challenging (science - science times, art criticism - art section, literary critique - times book review, economics - business section etc).

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India test 1 is the same as the June 2007 test, 2/3/4 should be fresh. By the way, make sure you get to June 2007, as well as February 1997 and SuperPrep.

Thanks for all the great advice everyone- I'm definitely going to check out the economist/times and see how they play out. I was actually referenced this: http://www.economist.com/debate/archive by a friend who said it was the most similar to LSAT passages cause there are arguments.

I'll have to check out those Indian LSATs. It' seems as though the questions on the Indian ones are very similar to US ones. Any idea of the difficulty level on those vs. US?

Also, I never took the SAT, but does anyone think the RC there is comparable? Or is it too easy?

ladenmysogony wrote:Thanks for all the great advice everyone- I'm definitely going to check out the economist/times and see how they play out. I was actually referenced this: http://www.economist.com/debate/archive by a friend who said it was the most similar to LSAT passages cause there are arguments.

I'll have to check out those Indian LSATs. It' seems as though the questions on the Indian ones are very similar to US ones. Any idea of the difficulty level on those vs. US?

Also, I never took the SAT, but does anyone think the RC there is comparable? Or is it too easy?

The SAT is for high schoolers, not grad students. It's WAY too easy.

ladenmysogony wrote:Thanks for all the great advice everyone- I'm definitely going to check out the economist/times and see how they play out. I was actually referenced this: http://www.economist.com/debate/archive by a friend who said it was the most similar to LSAT passages cause there are arguments.

I'll have to check out those Indian LSATs. It' seems as though the questions on the Indian ones are very similar to US ones. Any idea of the difficulty level on those vs. US?

Also, I never took the SAT, but does anyone think the RC there is comparable? Or is it too easy?

The four LSAT India tests currently available are modified previously administered non-disclosed US/N. America LSATs (except the June 2007 modified one), so the RC from those tests is authentic LSAT RC good for practice/prep use. To modify the original US versions of those tests, LSAC lowered the difficulty level of the LR and RC sections though by removing the hardest RC passage from the US version and replacing it with a different passage of lower difficulty level. Same thing in the LR sections, the hardest LR questions from the original US versions of those tests were removed and replaced with easier questions. Also, some of the sections only have four instead of five answer choices for questions, which also makes those sections a bit easier. Otherwise, it's authentic LSAT questions useful for practice. Just don't get super excited if/when you do way better on the RC or LR sections than usual, you should because the sections overall are lower difficulty level than US LSATs.