source for unofficial logic games Forum
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alexroark
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source for unofficial logic games
Can anyone suggest a good source out there to practice unofficial logic games so as not to waste valuable PT games? Hopefully these unofficial games are very similar in nature to the real thing!
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Christine (MLSAT)
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Re: source for unofficial logic games
You should change your mindset on this, stat.
You should be practicing either exclusively, or almost exclusively, with real LSAT games. Seriously, there are over 300 available real LSAT games, and you can (and should) replay these games many times in the course of your practice. It is a waste of valuable time and energy to practice extensively on games that are not real LSAT games, for the most part.
The vast majority of your studying should be spent in drilling and repeating good processes on real LSAT questions. While I appreciate that you don't want to adulterate PTs that you intend to take as full length LSATs, you should not be "saving" most of the PTs for full-length exams anyway.
Build a schedule for yourself, today, that has a reasonable number of PTs as full lengths between now and test day. Don't plan to do more PTs than you have the time and capacity to review deeply and thoroughly in their entirety, including the replaying of any games therein multiple times. After you've done that, you have the games from every OTHER preptest at your disposal to practice on outside of the full length exams, and you should begin to take full advantage of them immediately.
To repeat myself: it is more valuable to replay a real LSAT game for the 6th or even 15th time than it is to play most other games that are out there.
That being said, there are some okay faux games out there - but DO NOT TREAT THIS AS SERIOUS STUDYING. All games, even poorly written ones, have a minimal value in forcing you to think on your feet and think flexibly. However, because these games are inherently unLSATlike, you won't learn nearly as much from these games that will be useful to you in the future. Treat faux LSAT games the same way you treat sudoku - it's not harmful, as long as you don't fool yourself that it's really similar to the real thing, and it does 'work the brain'. But just as it would be silly to play sudoku *instead* of working on real LSAT games, it is silly to opt for faux LSAT games *instead* of real ones, unless you have absolutely MASTERED every real LSAT game in existence outside of the ones you've reserved for full-length exams.
You should be practicing either exclusively, or almost exclusively, with real LSAT games. Seriously, there are over 300 available real LSAT games, and you can (and should) replay these games many times in the course of your practice. It is a waste of valuable time and energy to practice extensively on games that are not real LSAT games, for the most part.
The vast majority of your studying should be spent in drilling and repeating good processes on real LSAT questions. While I appreciate that you don't want to adulterate PTs that you intend to take as full length LSATs, you should not be "saving" most of the PTs for full-length exams anyway.
Build a schedule for yourself, today, that has a reasonable number of PTs as full lengths between now and test day. Don't plan to do more PTs than you have the time and capacity to review deeply and thoroughly in their entirety, including the replaying of any games therein multiple times. After you've done that, you have the games from every OTHER preptest at your disposal to practice on outside of the full length exams, and you should begin to take full advantage of them immediately.
To repeat myself: it is more valuable to replay a real LSAT game for the 6th or even 15th time than it is to play most other games that are out there.
That being said, there are some okay faux games out there - but DO NOT TREAT THIS AS SERIOUS STUDYING. All games, even poorly written ones, have a minimal value in forcing you to think on your feet and think flexibly. However, because these games are inherently unLSATlike, you won't learn nearly as much from these games that will be useful to you in the future. Treat faux LSAT games the same way you treat sudoku - it's not harmful, as long as you don't fool yourself that it's really similar to the real thing, and it does 'work the brain'. But just as it would be silly to play sudoku *instead* of working on real LSAT games, it is silly to opt for faux LSAT games *instead* of real ones, unless you have absolutely MASTERED every real LSAT game in existence outside of the ones you've reserved for full-length exams.
