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Predictions for the February 2012 LSAT
Just like that, the February LSAT is upon us. Rumors abound before each test administration, but there’s something especially dark and mysterious about the February test. It’s not released. Students get a score yet no explanation of how they fared. You know that empty feeling that you get when a girl doesn’t call you back after your first date? You thought it went well. You know she doesn’t agree. But you have no explanation for why. That’s the February LSAT.
In my circumstance, however, the February LSAT is an amazing gift. I get to make predictions about a test that will never see the light of day. If I predict that more than a handful of Logical Reasoning questions will investigate the relationship between kitty litter and global warming, no one can prove me wrong. If I claim that mapping games will make a triumphant return, any evidence to the contrary will never surface. I have never felt such freedom.
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Feb 8, 2012 - 6:36 pm - By Matt
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Predictions for the December 2011 LSAT
Here we go again. As the tryptophan-induced daze wears off, LSAT students are faced with a brutal reality. The December LSAT is just two days away.
At this point, studying is rather pointless. In fact, relying on those good old “cramming” techniques that got you through freshman biology would be counterproductive in the final days. So what can we offer you for guidance at this point?
Semi-outlandish predictions about what will appear on the December LSAT, that’s what.
1. Experimenting with the Experimental
For years, nay, for decades, the experimental (unscored) section of the test has been one of the first three sections.
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Dec 1, 2011 - 6:55 pm - By Matt
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Matt Riley’s October 2011 LSAT Predictions (With Parakeets!)
It’s time for another look into the crystal ball of logic. There’s an LSAT going down in roughly 48 hours. I have a bad habit of making predictions about impending LSAT administrations, so I figured I would give it another shot.
I have been making predictions for a couple years, with surprising accuracy. It all got really out of hand with what has been coined the “honeybee debacle.” In the middle of one of my old LSAT blog posts (one of my favorites, by the way), I made a joke about honeybees coming up during a Reading Comp passage. And then, right near the end of the third passage, what did we see? Freaking honeybees. Weird.
So here we go:
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Sep 29, 2011 - 5:37 pm - By Matt
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Maintaining Your Study Plan as the October LSAT Looms
In the wild and crazy life of an LSAT instructor, the month of September is the wildest and craziest time of all. You are probably picturing raging all-night parties filled with voluptuous video vixens and Crystal flying everywhere. (For the most part, you’re right, except substitute freaked out LSAT students and dry erase markers.)
With three weeks to go until the October LSAT, it’s important that students utilize the remaining time the best way possible. However, there always seems to be a lot of different theories about what defines the best way possible.
After working with thousands of LSAT students over the last decade, I think I have gotten a pretty good idea of what works.
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Sep 9, 2011 - 4:31 pm - By Matt
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Getting Started: Early Issues with Reading Comp
During the last few lessons I’ve spent with my current class (whom I love unconditionally), a few issues have arisen as we worked through Reading Comprehension passages. The culmination was the moment when I was asked the following question:
“If I don’t understand the words, what should I do?”
You might assume that there is no answer to such a question, but you would be wrong. Over the years of teaching the LSAT, I have found that there is an answer to every question, a solution to every problem that students confront.
So here are a few tips that deserve repeating.
Jul 25, 2011 - 4:38 pm - By Matt
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Predictions for the Impending June LSAT
So here we are again – three days out from the June LSAT. Stress abounds, rumors spread like wildfire, and personal hygiene has all but been abandoned. Of course, this also means that it is time for me to make … Read Entire Article…
Jun 4, 2011 - 5:21 pm - By Matt
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The Truth, the Whole Truth, and…Lying on the LSAT
While working through a particularly difficult slew of questions with my lovely class the other night, I noticed a few things. First, nothing gets a crowd pumped like a discussion of fractal geometry. Second, and more pertinent to our discussion here, students have a hard time knowing when they should question the truth of different claims made on the LSAT.
After some spirited discussion intertwined with some personal insults, we came around to one big distinction. There are facts, and then there is everything else.
May 6, 2011 - 4:42 pm - By Matt
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