Posts Tagged ‘Princeton Review’

PowerScore Bibles, FTW

Ryan
Apr 16 |15:17

I own a number of LSAT related guides and workbooks. The following is a list of the workbooks and/or guides I currently own:

I also have quite a few of the LSAC Official PrepTests which I also purchased from Amazon.com. My favorite two books of the above five, though, are the PowerScore Bibles. If you are not planning on attending a course (either in person or online), I would heavily recommend you purchase the PowerScore Logic Games and Logical Reasoning Bibles.

As your search different sites for reviews, you will see that these two books consistently appear towards the top of any favorite guides list. In my opinion, they are easily the best and are a “must read” for any student planning on taking the LSAT. After working through the guides, you’ll find that you can look at most of the Logical Reasoning questions and eliminate at least one and sometimes more of the answers before really diving into the analysis. The Logic Games Bible also teaches you how to diagram and map out a plan of attack for Logic Games questions in a quick and efficient manner that is, most importantly, repeatable on questions that are not specifically in the guides.

If anything, my biggest criticism of the other guides is that their methods are not always repeatable when you try to adapt them to something that does not specifically appear in one of their guides. I have been fairly impressed with what PowerScore has done with the two guides. I can’t attest to the other PowerScore Bible for the Reading Comprehension as I have not had a chance to open it up and evaluate it.

When I am done with all my studying, I’ll give a full evaluation of my plan of attack and I’ll revamp it after having taken the actual LSAT with what changes I think are needed. Hopefully in the end, we will have a complete guide of at least one method of tackling the LSAT that others who are in similar conditions and/or restraints as I am can follow.

 

LSAT and Admission Links

Ryan
Apr 16 |11:24

As I run into them, I’ll post interesting or helpful articles, podcasts and videos that I find on the internet.

I recently drove up to Atlanta for the weekend but did not know the University of Florida would be holding their Spring Football game that weekend as well. This made the usual 6.5 hour trip from Tampa to Atlanta into a grueling 9.5 hour trip. It did give me the luxury, though, of downloading all of the available LSAT Logic in Everyday Life podcasts from the Princeton Review. I can’t speak for the in person classes that the Princeton Review holds as I have not attended them, but I do own their review book and have listened to over 7 hours worth of their podcasts. The review book is fairly basic and there are other books that handle tha material in a better fashion. The podcasts, though, can be very helpful to a certain type of prospective LSAT examinee. If you have not taken a Logic course before going into the LSAT or are having trouble translating LSAT-based logical reasoning into word problems or vice-versa, then the LSAT in Everyday Life podcasts might be helpful to you. In the podcasts, the caster picks a contemporary event and breaks down the logic behind the arguments into LSAT-related terms. If anything, it is a good lesson in repetition to alleviate all personal biases from your LSAT answers. It is noted in every podcasts that you should reject any personal feelings on the subject and deal strictly with the material presented to you by the LSAT questions and answers. This may seem like a small problem but it is fairly easy to fall into this trap if you are not careful.

I also found an article published the other day by US News entitled “How to Get In: Cornell University.” It seems there might be a series of these, but this one was the most recently published and the Cornell admissions representative was fairly honest in his or her replies. It is a short read, but I reccomend anyone who is considering applying to a university of their caliber to give it a complete read.