1. LSAT EXAM
Test Day Instructions

2. LSAT: The Day Before Your Exam
Print Your LSAT Admission Ticket (from your LSAC.org account). It has the most recent test center information.
Read all five pages of the admission ticket.
Expect the test day to cover up to seven hours.
Assemble what you must take to the test center.
Organize and pack your 1 gallon ziplock bag.
Get a good night’s sleep!

3. LSAT: Required Materials
LSAT Admission Ticket: Present and sign page 1 at the check-in table; do not bring pages 2-5.
Valid, Government-Issued Photo ID: Bring a current ID that has a recognizable photo; first and last name must be identical to your admission ticket.
Recent, Passport-Type Photo: Glue or tape the 2 x 2 photo in the designated box on your admission ticket. It must be different than the government photo.
Pencils: Bring three or four sharpened No. 2

4. LSAT TEST DAY Expect the test day to cover up to seven hours.
Don’t forget required items and bag of personal items.
Know where to go, where to park.
Arrive early.
Use the restroom before checking in.

5. Logical Reasoning Introduction
TWO SECTIONS! That’s HALF of your score!
35 minutes per section
About 24—26 questions in EACH section
Usually one question per passage, but occasionally two

6. Logical Reasoning Skills
Understand how to construct or conclude an argument
Understand how to evaluate an argument
Know how to draw well-supported conclusions
Know how to reason by analogy
Determine how additional evidence affects an argument
Apply principles or rules to an argument
Identify argument flaws

7. Similarities to Reading Comprehension
Same reading strategies: read actively, visualize, paraphrase, analyze
Same attack strategies, but always pre-read the question
Always consider every answer choice
Use the same elimination strategies
The BEST answer is always the credited response

8. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions

9. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions
Don’t judge the actual truth; test the logical soundness of what’s presented

10. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions
Don’t judge the actual truth; test the logical soundness of what’s presented
Understand WHAT the conclusion is and WHERE it is located

11. Differences from Reading Comprehension
Fewer factual questions, more hidden level questions
Don’t judge the actual truth; test the logical soundness of what’s presented
Understand WHAT the conclusion is and WHERE it is located
Understand the progression of the passage: order of premise, evidence, conclusion

12. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea Questions

13. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions

14. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences

15. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument

16. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument 5. Method of Argument

17. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument 5. Method of Argument 6. Conclusion / Deduction

18. Logical Reasoning Question Categories
1. Main Idea 2. Assumptions 3. Inferences 4. Strengthen or Weakening an Argument 5. Method of Argument 6. Conclusion / Deduction 7. Flaws

19. Practice Test Questions and Review
Logical Reasoning
Practice Test Questions and Review

20. Verbal Section Final Advice
Practice daily, concentrate on improving accuracy before efficiency
Analyze why non-credited answers are wrong
Analyze your own “misses”
Analyze your own strengths and weaknesses
Keep practicing!

21. You Can Do It!
GOOD LUCK
ON THE
LSAT EXAM!