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Overview

If you want to be a lawyer, you first have to face the LSAT. This savvy guide gives you the skills and confidence you need to get your head around LSAT question types, including those infamous "logic games." It's packed with proven problem-solving techniques and test-day tips that'll help you score your best - and get into the law school of your choice.
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Overview

If you want to be a lawyer, you first have to face the LSAT. This savvy guide gives you the skills and confidence you need to get your head around LSAT question types, including those infamous "logic games." It's packed with proven problem-solving techniques and test-day tips that'll help you score your best - and get into the law school of your choice.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764571947
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/8/2004
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 99,052
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Product dimensions: 10.84 (w) x 8.14 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Meet the Author

Amy Hackney Blackwell is an attorney and writer. She holds a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, an MA in history from Vanderbilt University, and an AB from Duke University. Her past occupations include various teaching jobs — LSAT test-prep, paralegal training, and two years of teaching English in Japan on the JET Program; several years as a researcher in the UVA Law Library; and a stint as a theatrical technician and lighting designer. Oh, yes, and she is a member of the South Carolina Bar and worked as a lawyer for several years, but doesn’t do that now. Her writing credits include Mythology For Dummies (written with her husband, Christopher W. Blackwell, and published by the folks bringing you this volume), The Everything Book of Irish History and Heritage (Adams Media, 2004), and The Essential Dictionary of Law (Barnes & Noble Books, 2004).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 2
What You're Not to Read 2
How This Book Is Organized 2
Icons Used in This Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part I Taking the LSAT Plunge 5
Chapter 1 The L Team: The LSAT and Its Sponsors 7
Getting to Know the Enemy 7
Taking a Quick Look at the Types of Questions 8
You Gotta Score! 10
Registering for the LSAT 11
Preparing for the LSAT 12
What Have You Done for Me Lately? The LSAC 14
Chapter 2 Test-Taking Basics: Setting Yourself Up for Success 17
Planning Your LSAT Test-Taking Tactics 17
To Guess or Not to Guess 21
Readying Yourself for Battle 22
Life After the LSAT: What to Do Now? 24
Chapter 3 The Lowdown on Law School Admissions 27
Choosing a Law School 27
Filling Out All the Forms - Applying to Law School 31
Part II Analytical Reasoning: Players, Rules, and Logic 35
Chapter 4 Zen and the Art of Analytical Reasoning 37
Analyzing the Analytical Reasoning Section 37
Taking the Zen Approach to Analytical Reasoning Problems 38
Setting Yourself Up for Success Step-by-Step 40
Tackling the Questions - Finally! 44
Zen...and a Bit of Practice 46
Chapter 5 Analyze This: A Walk through Four Analytical Reasoning Problems 47
Introducing... The College Singers! 47
The Contractor's Workers 52
Pizza Anyone? 57
The Photography Museum 64
Chapter 6 Give It a Try: An LSAT Analytical Reasoning Section 71
Who's Teaching What at the Yoga Studio? 71
The End of the Roman Republic 73
Planning the Theater Festival 74
Working in a Law Firm 76
Chapter 7 The Mysteries of Chapter 6 Solved 79
Figuring Out the Yoga Studio 79
Ending the Roman Republic 81
Performing at the Theater Festival 84
Working in a Law Firm 86
Part III Logical Reasoning: Arguing Well 89
Chapter 8 Stay on Your Toes: The Basics of Logical Reasoning 91
What You Can Expect in the Logical Reasoning Sections 91
Just the Facts, Ma'am: Arguing for Logic 92
Elementary, My Dear Watson: Reasoning Logically 94
Logical, Reasonable Vocabulary 97
Chapter 9 Conclusions, Assumptions, and Flaws in Logical Reasoning Questions 101
Jumping to Logical Conclusions 101
Making Assumptions 104
Knowing the Role Played by a Claim 106
Finding Flaws in an Argument 108
Chapter 10 Strengthening, Weakening, and Supporting Arguments 111
How These Questions Work 111
Build It Up: Strengthen/Support Questions 113
Tear It Down: Weakening Questions 115
A Twist: EXCEPT Questions 116
Chapter 11 Patterns of Reasoning, Explanations, and Resolving Discrepancies 119
Demanding an Explanation 119
Reconciling Discrepancies and Paradoxes 121
Reasoning by Pattern 123
Arguments Based on Principles 125
Figuring Out an Argument's Structure 127
Chapter 12 Be Reasonable! - Logical Reasoning Practice Questions 129
Chapter 13 Check Yourself! - Answers and Explanations for Chapter 12 141
The Beloved Answer Key 141
Methods to the Madness: The Explanations 142
Part IV Reading Comprehension: Read 'Em but Don't Weep 151
Chapter 14 Everybody's Got an Axe to Grind: Reading Comprehension 153
Grinding That Axe 153
Reading Incomprehensible "Gibberish" 157
Talking Technique 158
Chapter 15 Getting Acquainted with Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions 161
Giving Passage 1 a Shot: Influenza Vaccination 161
Conquering Passage 2: Manifest Destiny 167
Chapter 16 Comprehending the Incomprehensible: Practice Passages and Questions 173
Passage 1 Pondering a Japanese Poet 173
Passage 2 Saluting the Sea Urchin 176
Passage 3 Fun with the FMLA 178
Passage 4 Considering Cloning 180
Chapter 17 Answers and Explanations for Chapter 16 183
Your Handy-Dandy Answer Key 183
Explaining the Answers 183
Part V The Writing Sample: No Score but Can Count 191
Chapter 18 No Right or Wrong Answers Here: Just Pick a Side 193
Pick a Side - No Ridin' the Fence 193
Walking through a Practice Essay 194
Considering Essay Practice 198
Chapter 19 Practice Writing Samples 199
Topic 1 Choosing a Law School 199
Topic 2 The Sporting Goods Store 201
Part VI The Real Deal: Full-Length Practice LSATs 203
Chapter 20 Some Rainy-Day "Fun": LSAT Practice Exam 1 207
Section I208
Section II215
Section III226
Section IV238
Writing Sample 249
Answer Key for Practice Exam 1 251
Computing Your Score 252
Chapter 21 Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations 253
Section I253
Section II263
Section III267
Section IV272
Chapter 22 Some More Rainy-Day "Fun": LSAT Practice Exam 2 279
Section I280
Section II292
Section III303
Section IV315
Writing Sample320
Answer Key for Practice Exam 2322
Chapter 23 Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations 323
Section I323
Section II327
Section III331
Section IV335
Part VII The Part of Tens 343
Chapter 24 Ten (or So) Habits of Highly Successful LSAT-Takers 345
Getting a Good Night's Sleep 345
Eating Breakfast 345
Planning Ahead 346
Envisioning Success 346
Guessing Well 346
Making Notes and Drawings 346
Concentrating 347
Ignoring Irrelevancies 347
Staying Relaxed 347
Managing Your Time Well 347
Steadily Moving to the Finish 348
Chapter 25 Ten (Plus One) Myths About the LSAT 349
The LSAT Doesn't Have Anything to Do with Law School 349
You Can't Study for the LSAT 349
You Must Take a Prep Course in Order to Do Well on the LSAT 350
Some People Just Can't Do Analytical Reasoning Problems 350
You Can Spot Difficult Questions Before You Work Them 350
B Is the Best Letter to Guess 351
No One Reads the Writing Sample 351
Finishing a Section Is Better Than Concentrating on Two-Thirds of It 351
A Great LSAT Score Guarantees Admission to a Great Law School 351
The LSAT Is Used Only for Admissions Purposes 352
Your Score Won't Improve if You Retake the LSAT 352
Chapter 26 Ten Kinds of Law You Can Practice 353
Business/Corporate 353
Criminal 353
Domestic Relations/Family Law 354
Employment/Labor 354
Intellectual Property 354
International 354
Personal Injury/Insurance Defense 355
Real Estate 355
Tax 355
Trusts and Estates/Probate 356
Index 357

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 11, 2006

    There are better books out there...

    The book was okay...but I feel like her sample questions in the practice tests are not representative of those that are actually asked on the LSAT (I took the test like a week ago). And, the way she words certain questions in the games section are ambiguous bc she leaves out some key words. If you really want a good guide to the LSAT, try the Princeton Review book or the LSAC Super Prep.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2011

    An easy read

    This book was a request from my son to assist ind making his pre-entry into Law school an easier transition

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2011

    Great!

    The Judge that wrote this did a really great job. I have been using at least six different LSAT practice books and this is the best!

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