Having trouble figuring out what you should read to really beef up your LSAT RC skills? Here are some places where you can start:

Editorial and Opinion: The Editorial or Opinion pages of any major US Daily newspaper, such as The New York Times, the Washington Post, or the LA Times.

Law, Politics, and Economics: Magazines such as Legal Affairs, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Economist.

History: The Journal of American History.

Science: Magazines such as Scientific American and Popular Science.

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When answering Logical Reasoning questions, should you read the question stem before reading the stimulus? No! Understanding the stimulus is the key to answering any question, and reading the question stem first tends to undermine the ability of students to fully comprehend the information in the stimulus. On easy questions this distraction tends not to have a significant negative impact, but on more difficult questions the student often is forced to read the stimulus twice in order to get full comprehension, thus wasting valuable time. Literally, by reading the question stem first, students are forced to juggle two things at once: the question stem and the information in the stimulus. That is a difficult task when under time pressure.

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How do you register for the LSAT? To register for the test, visit Law Services, the administrators of the test. While registering for the LSAT, you will come acorss CAS, the Credential Assembly Service. This data collection and standardization service is required for application to most schools, and more information can be found here.

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The LSAT is designed not only as a test of conceptual abilities–it is also a test of intimidation. How do the test makers ensure that the reasing comprehension passages are challenging? Often by choosing subjects that seem daunting; many passages are based on esoteric topics, filled with sophisticated-sounding scientific or technical terms. It is vital that you avoid intimidation as a response to words or phrases which you have never seen. Since the makers of the LSAT do not expect or require outside knowledge with regard to Reading Comprehension passage topics, unfamiliar terms or phrases will almost always be surrounded by context clues.

To read more about the Reading Comprehension section of the LSAT, check out this excerpt of  The PowerScore LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible. 

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LSAT By The Numbers:
The LSAT is administered four times a year.
LSAT scores are valid for five years from the date of testing.
You can take the LSAT a maximum of three times every two years.

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The most common logic game type on the LSAT are linear games (both basic and advanced). The least common are circular linearity games.

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Each administered LSAT contains approximately 101 questions, and each LSAT score is based on the total number of questions a test taker correctly answers, a total commonly known as the raw score. After arriving at the raw score, a unique Score Conversion Chart is used for each LSAT to convert the raw score into a scaled LSAT score. Since June 1991, the LSAT has utilized a 120 to 180 scoring scale, with 120 being the lowest possible score and 180 being the highest possible score.

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Thinking about applying to law school this summer? Consider taking the LSAT this June. Taking this LSAT gives you the ability to submit your application at the very start of the admission cycle, in mid- September or early October, which is a huge advantage. In addition, if you don’t do as well as you’d like on the June LSAT, you can retake it in September/October or December, should you want to improve your score. Also, taking the June LSAT frees up your summer so that you can work on the other aspects of your law school application. Keep in mind, though, that if you’re still in school you’ll have to spend part of your spring semester studying for the LSAT, which may be the last thing you want to do (or have time to do).

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 Because the LSAT does not assess a scoring penalty for incorrect answer choices, you should always guess on every question that you cannot complete during the allotted time. However, because some answer choices are historically more likely to occur than others, you should not guess randomly. Statistically speaking, the most common LSAT answer is “D.”

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 Starting in October 2011, Law Services continued the practice of using test forms that gave different experimental section numbers to different students, but they removed the limitation that the experimental section must be among the first three sections, and allowed the experimental to appear among the final two sections. For example, some October 2011 test takers had scored sections 1, 2, 3, and 5, and had the experimental as section 4.

What this means is that there is no longer a reliable way for individual test takers to predict or determine their experimental section number. It is possible to narrow it down to two (if Games or Reading Comprehension is experimental) or three sections (if Logical Reasoning is experimental), but with the test makers potentially placing the experimental section as any of the five it is essentially impossible to determine the specific section that is unscored.

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