LSAT for Dummies (with Free Online Practice Tests).

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Started with the LSAT -- Chapter 1: The L Team: The LSAT and Its Administrators -- Getting to Know the Enemy -- Taking a Quick Look at the Types of Questions -- Analytical reasoning - playing games with your head -- Logical reasoning - putting your arguing skills to good use -- Reading comprehension - concentrating and remembering what you read -- The writing sample - jumping the final hurdle -- You Gotta Score! -- Registering for the LSAT -- Preparing for the LSAT -- What really helps -- Practice makes perfect -- What Have You Done for Me Lately? The LSAC -- Creating and administering the LSAT -- Aiding in law school applications -- Providing other goods and services -- Chapter 2: Test-Taking Basics: Setting Yourself Up for Success -- Planning Your LSAT Test-Taking Tactics -- Maximizing your chances -- Taking the straight or the winding road -- Filling in the dots -- Taking the occasional break -- To Guess or Not to Guess -- The joy of statistics -- Is Choice (B) really best? -- Increase your odds: Eliminate the duds -- Readying Yourself for Battle -- What to bring -- What to leave behind -- Life after the LSAT: What to Do Now? -- Yeah, that worked for me -- Wait, I can do better than that! -- Chapter 3: The Lowdown on Law School Admissions -- Choosing a Law School -- Where to go for information -- Important considerations -- Keeping ranking in mind -- Filling Out All the Forms - Applying to Law School -- Pick more than one -- How admissions work -- Don't forget the money -- Part II: Analytical Reasoning: Following the Rules of the Logic Game -- Chapter 4: Gaming the Analytical Reasoning Questions.

Analyzing the Analytical Reasoning Section -- Setting Yourself Up for Success Step by Step -- Get the facts, decide between ordering and grouping, and set up your game board -- Consider the rules and modify your game board -- Answer the questions -- Attending to Some Analytical Reasoning Do's -- Take time to develop your game board -- Pick your battles -- Remember that four wrongs make a right -- Stay calm -- Decide which problem to confront first -- Maintain your perspective -- Keep practicing -- Chapter 5: Proper Placement: Analytical Reasoning Ordering Games -- Spotting Ordering Games -- Becoming Chairman of the (Game) Board -- Putting together the game pieces -- Drawing the box chart -- Recording the rules -- Analyzing the rules -- Answering Ordering Questions -- Substitute condition questions -- Completely determined order questions -- Ordering the Approach to an Advanced Game -- Chapter 6: Type Casting: Grouping Games -- Classifying Grouping Games -- Following the Rules of Division -- Target rules -- Joining rules -- If/then rules -- Expanding the Grouping Game Board -- Mastering Practice Grouping Games -- An in/out grouping game -- A more complex grouping game -- Part III: Logical Reasoning: Picking Apart an Argument -- Chapter 7: Analyzing Arguments: The Basics of Logical Reasoning -- What You Can Expect in the Logical Reasoning Sections -- Taking a Systematic Approach -- Reading the question first -- Reading the argument -- Formulating an answer -- Reading the answers and eliminating the wrong ones -- Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic -- Fighting fair: The elements of an argument -- Getting from point A to point B: Types of reasoning -- Chapter 8: Conclusions, Inferences, Assumptions, and Flaws in Logical Reasoning Questions -- Jumping to Logical Conclusions -- Using Your Noggin to Make Inferences -- Making Assumptions.

Knowing the Role Played by a Claim -- Finding Flaws in an Argument -- Chapter 9: Strengthening and Weakening Arguments -- How These Questions Work -- Affecting cause-and-effect arguments -- Analyzing analogy arguments -- Stabbing at statistical arguments -- Build It Up: Strengthen/Support Questions -- Tear It Down: Weakening Questions -- A Twist: EXCEPT Questions -- Chapter 10: Examining Less Common Logical Reasoning Question Types -- Reconciling Discrepancies and Paradoxes -- Looking for paradox questions -- Perusing a paradox example -- Reasoning by Pattern -- Finding pattern-of-reasoning questions -- Patterning a reasonable example -- Exploring Arguments Based on Principles -- Pinpointing principles questions -- Parsing a principles example -- Figuring Out an Argument's Structure -- Spotting structure questions -- Tackling a structure-of-argument example -- Part IV: Reading Comprehension: Read 'Em but Don't Weep -- Chapter 11: Rites of Passage(s): Types of Reading Passages and Questions -- Presenting Reading Passages -- Experimenting with natural science passages -- Observing social science passages -- Entertaining a humanities passage -- Laying down the law-related passages -- Approaching Reading Questions -- Identifying the question type -- Eliminating answer choices -- Dealing with exception questions -- Chapter 12: Safe Landing: Mastering the Approach to Reading Comprehension -- Reading Comprehension Strategy -- Skimming the questions -- Tackling the questions -- Pacing Yourself through the Passages -- What to read for -- Getting the main point -- Absorbing the author's tone -- Forming the framework: The passage's outline -- Reading with an active pencil -- Deciding whether to work in or out of order -- Giving Sample Passage 1 a Shot: Influenza Vaccination -- Skimming the questions first -- Reading and underlining -- Thinking about the passage.

Knocking down the questions -- Conquering Sample Passage 2: Manifest Destiny -- Skimming the questions first -- Reading and underlining -- Thinking about the passage -- Answering the questions - full speed ahead -- Part V: The Writing Sample: Penning a Persuasive Argument -- Chapter 13: Pick a Side, Any Side: Responding to the Writing Sample Prompt -- Pick a Side - No Ridin' the Fence -- Walking through a Practice Essay -- Organizing your argument -- One topic, two different essays -- Chapter 14: Practice Writing Samples -- Topic 1: Choosing a Law School -- Sample answer: Choosing Law School A -- Sample answer: Fighting for Law School B -- Topic 2: The Sporting Goods Store -- Sample answer: Use state funds -- Sample answer: Don't use state funds -- Part VI: The Real Deal: Full-Length Practice LSATs -- Chapter 15: Some Rainy-Day "Fun": LSAT Practice Exam 1 -- Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 1 -- Section I: Analytical Reasoning -- Section II: Logical Reasoning -- Section III: Reading Comprehension -- Section IV: Logical Reasoning -- Writing Sample -- Chapter 16: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations -- Section I: Analytical Reasoning -- Section II: Logical Reasoning -- Section III: Reading Comprehension -- Section IV: Logical Reasoning -- Example Essay -- Answer Key for Practice Exam 1 -- Computing Your Score -- Chapter 17: Perfecting with Practice: LSAT Practice Exam 2 -- Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 2 -- Section I: Logical Reasoning -- Section II: Reading Comprehension -- Section III: Logical Reasoning -- Section IV: Analytical Reasoning -- Writing Sample -- Chapter 18: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations -- Section I: Logical Reasoning -- Section II: Reading Comprehension -- Section III: Logical Reasoning -- Section IV: Analytical Reasoning -- Example Essay -- Answer Key for Practice Exam 2.

Chapter 19: Even More "Fun": LSAT Practice Exam 3 -- Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 3 -- Section I: Logical Reasoning -- Section II: Reading Comprehension -- Section III: Analytical Reasoning -- Section IV: Logical Reasoning -- Writing Sample -- Chapter 20: Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations -- Section I: Logical Reasoning -- Section II: Reading Comprehension -- Section III: Analytical Reasoning -- Section IV: Logical Reasoning -- Example Essay -- Answer Key for Practice Exam 3 -- Part VII: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 21: Ten (Plus One) Myths about the LSAT -- The LSAT Doesn't Have Anything to Do with Law School -- You Can't Study for the LSAT -- You Must Take a Prep Course to Do Well on the LSAT -- Some People Just Can't Do Analytical Reasoning Problems -- You Can Spot Difficult Questions Before You Work Them -- B Is the Best Letter to Guess -- No One Reads the Writing Sample -- Finishing a Section Is Better Than Concentrating on Two-Thirds of It -- A Great LSAT Score Guarantees Admission to a Great Law School -- The LSAT Is Used Only for Admissions Purposes -- Your Score Won't Improve if You Retake the LSAT -- Chapter 22: Ten Kinds of Law You Can Practice -- Business/Corporate -- Criminal -- Domestic Relations/Family Law -- Employment/Labor -- Intellectual Property -- International -- Personal Injury/Insurance Defense -- Real Estate -- Tax -- Trusts and Estates/Probate -- Index -- About the Authors -- Wiley End User License Agreement.

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