Reading Comp Material? Forum

[lawschoolgirl312]

Anyone have good reading comp material suggestions?

I have already tried the manhattan prep one

[ayylmao]

Powerscore is pretty good. I'd also recommend reading The Economist and Scientific American on a regular basis to train your brain.

[lawschoolgirl312]

are there certain topics on these two journals that i should concentrate on??

Thanks for your advice btw!!

[Nulli Secundus]

I second the Economist advice. Do not focus on narrow subjects, just read, read and read some more to increase your reading speed and retention rate.

[seashell.economy]

are there certain topics on these two journals that i should concentrate on??

Thanks for your advice btw!!

I actually found that the single anthropology course I took is relevant for an astounding amount of LR questions and reading comp passages. It seems that every PT I encounter has material relevant to the anthro course I took, so perhaps reading some anthro material would help. LSAT writers love to pick topics on evolution of species, ethnographers/ field studies, and ancient cultures, and this carries over into more hard science LR/RC passages with evolutionary themes on bacteria, cells, etc.

If you are still in UG, I'd highly recommend an anthro course. You will likely be reading dense nineteenth-century anthro theory, so that helps with RC. My anthro course familiarized me with many topics commonly on the LSAT. As much as some people say the topics shouldn't matter on the LSAT, I think they do. When I encounter an LR - or especially RC - with a familiar topic I can finish the passage faster and with more answers correct.

Other common LR and RC topics are: African-American history, biotech/patent passages, astronomy, environmental/pollution, and art history.

[unodostres]

I've been reading scientific American and the new republic (leaning really left). Pretty dense material when it comes to weird ass books and movie reviews of how authors hate or love something. Seeing that structure within a magazine helps focus and Rememeber big picture concepts. I usually just read the next article no matter the topic even if it's about some random thing that I've never heard of...

[tk421991]

What do you all think about the Atlantic? I checked my college's library today and they had that and Scientific American but not the Economist or the New Yorker.

[unodostres]

What do you all think about the Atlantic? I checked my college's library today and they had that and Scientific American but not the Economist or the New Yorker.

Manhattan guy said it was a good read. So did lsatblog http://lsatblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/ls ... s.html?m=1


https://www.manhattanprep.com/lsat/foru ... t4604.html

[pterodactyls]

I actually liked the LSAT Trainer's RC section. I read Manhattan's RC Guide, and then the Trainer.

The Trainer just did a great job of explaining how to find the main point, and showing the different structures that the RC passages can follow. It's point is that you approach an RC passage similarly to how you would approach an LR passage. Identify the conclusion, and find the main points supporting that conclusion. The Trainer gives you several examples and shows you where the main point usually occurs, where the supporting sentences usually occur, and identifies the fluff that you don't really need to memorize. After reading the Trainer, I realized that RC passages were a lot more predictable than I had thought.

Just my $0.02, it helped me. I was originally scoring -7 to -10 on RC. Then I read Manhattan RC and practiced and got down to -5/-6. Then after the LSAT Trainer I was around -4. Scored -3 on December test.