Online course from testmasters.net? Forum

[june2014]

Has anyone taken or is taking the online course from testmasters.net? Can anybody tell me how helpful their online videos/LR and RC explanations are?

I'm okay with LG, but I'm having a tough time with LR and RC, and I'm wondering whether their explanations take you step by step and really help you understand why the correct answers are correct and why the wrong answers are wrong.

I got a lot of help from Manhattan LSAT forums and 7sage, but I still have some LR questions I don't fully understand even after reading 7sage's explanations and all the posts on the Manhattan lsat forums, and I often take way too long trying to fully understand a single LR problem..

How would you compare the LR/RC explanations provided by testmasters.net to those of 7sage or the Manhattan lsat forums?
Any insight into the online testmasters course would be much appreciated.

[MadwomanintheAttic]

I just signed up for their online course. I had intended to take the live course, but it was canceled in my area The online course is way more lecture based than I was expecting. The videos consists of Robin Singh in front of a live class working through different problems. You do, however, get the benefit of hearing students questions since it is a recorded live class. I find some questions I have are covered since someone in that class will ask it. A lot of the explanations are written as well, including the LG explanations. I prefer finding those on 7sage and watching the explanation there opposed to reading the explanation. I can't speak to the RC explanations as I haven't covered that yet. I think the LR explanations are pretty decent. The harder questions usually have a video that accompanies the explanation. He spends a lot of time on the why the wrong answer is wrong which is helpful.

My advice, for what it's worth: Figure out what types of problems trouble you the most. Have you tried Powerscore? It sounds like you've already done a lot of prep, if that's the case and you're only having trouble understanding a few problem types, I would go back to the MLSAT forums and explain your logic then wait for someone to respond. I would also see about finding a tutor and spend the $950 on that. TM access is lesson released. You must go through all the lessons before you can have full access to all the explanations of every LSAT problem. It's a pain, if you don't want the lessons and just the explanations. You can skip through all the lessons to get immediate access, but again still time consuming.

[june2014]

I just signed up for their online course. I had intended to take the live course, but it was canceled in my area The online course is way more lecture based than I was expecting. The videos consists of Robin Singh in front of a live class working through different problems. You do, however, get the benefit of hearing students questions since it is a recorded live class. I find some questions I have are covered since someone in that class will ask it. A lot of the explanations are written as well, including the LG explanations. I prefer finding those on 7sage and watching the explanation there opposed to reading the explanation. I can't speak to the RC explanations as I haven't covered that yet. I think the LR explanations are pretty decent. The harder questions usually have a video that accompanies the explanation. He spends a lot of time on the why the wrong answer is wrong which is helpful.

My advice, for what it's worth: Figure out what types of problems trouble you the most. Have you tried Powerscore? It sounds like you've already done a lot of prep, if that's the case and you're only having trouble understanding a few problem types, I would go back to the MLSAT forums and explain your logic then wait for someone to respond. I would also see about finding a tutor and spend the $950 on that. TM access is lesson released. You must go through all the lessons before you can have full access to all the explanations of every LSAT problem. It's a pain, if you don't want the lessons and just the explanations. You can skip through all the lessons to get immediate access, but again still time consuming.

Thank you for your response. I didn't know you can't have full access to the explanations of every LSAT problem until you go through all of their lessons.. Just to make sure--so you need to have completed watching all of their video lessons to gain access to all the explanations to every LSAT problem on their website, and it's possible to just skip through their lessons to get to all the explanations and then get back to the lessons later?

I read all the Powerscore bibles, and MLSAT forums are great but it seems like they often take a long time (sometimes up to months) to respond to questions/posts. One thing I'm looking forward to from the Testmasters online course is that they'll respond within 24 hours to emails/any LSAT questions, and I thought that itself would be like having a tutor for $950, plus all the other resources and lessons they provide.
Thanks again for the info and advice!

[MadwomanintheAttic]

I believe to skip the lesson you just need to mark each section of the lesson as complete. Normally there's four check boxes per lesson that you would just click to open the next lesson. Once all lessons are complete you would have full acces to the LSAT question database and all resources.