LSAT prep guide
Learn the current LSAT format, drill each Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension question type by name, complete LSAT Argumentative Writing, and read your score in real percentile terms before applying. The 16 guides are organized into 4 categories: Scoring & policy, Format & structure, Prep planning, Question types. Every guide is sourced directly to LSAC's own specifications, percentile tables, and policy pages, dated, and independent of any test-prep provider.
| Category | Guides |
|---|---|
| Scoring & policy | 3 |
| Format & structure | 4 |
| Prep planning | 2 |
| Question types | 7 |
Scoring & policy
Scoring & policy
3 in-depth guidesLSAT Test Dates 2026 to 2027: Registration Deadlines, Score Release Dates and Fees
Every LSAT administration from September 2026 through June 2027 with registration deadlines and score release dates, plus the $253 registration fee, the $219 CAS fee and how to choose a date.
Read the complete guide →02LSAT Scoring, Score Scale, and Percentiles: What Your Number Actually Means
How LSAT raw scores convert to the 120–180 scale, what specific scores mean in percentile terms, and how to read a score report.
Read the complete guide →03Retaking the LSAT: Limits, Cancellations, and Score-Choice Rules
LSAC's numerical limits on retaking the LSAT, how score cancellations count against those limits, and what most schools do with multiple scores.
Read the complete guide →Format & structure
Format & structure
4 in-depth guidesWhat Is the LSAT? Format, Sections, and the 2026 Testing Changes
A direct answer on what the LSAT tests, how the current four-section format is built, and the in-center testing change starting in August 2026.
Read the complete guide →02LSAT Logical Reasoning: Question Types and How to Attack Them
A breakdown of the LSAT's two scored Logical Reasoning sections: the recurring question types, what each one is actually testing, and how to build an approach for each.
Read the complete guide →03LSAT Reading Comprehension: Passage Types and Question Strategy
How the LSAT's Reading Comprehension section is built, including the comparative reading passage pair, and a working strategy for passage-based questions.
Read the complete guide →04LSAT Argumentative Writing: Format, Timing, and Why It's Required
What LSAT Argumentative Writing actually is, its exact timing, and why a missing writing sample holds your entire score.
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Prep planning
2 in-depth guidesBuilding an LSAT Study Plan: Timeline, Diagnostics, and Weekly Structure
A framework for building your own LSAT study timeline around a diagnostic, section-specific weaknesses, and full-length practice tests, without relying on a single fixed calendar.
Read the complete guide →02LSAT vs. GRE for Law School, and LSAT Testing Accommodations
Which law schools accept the GRE instead of the LSAT, how to decide between the two tests, and how LSAT testing accommodations work.
Read the complete guide →Question types
Question types
7 in-depth guidesLSAT Assumption Questions: Necessary vs. Sufficient, With Practice
How to spot a necessary-assumption question versus a sufficient-assumption question, the Negation Test, and three original practice questions with full explanations.
Read the complete guide →02LSAT Strengthen and Weaken Questions: Attack the Gap, With Practice
How strengthen and weaken questions test the same logical gap from opposite directions, plus three original practice questions with full explanations.
Read the complete guide →03LSAT Flaw Questions: Naming the Error, With Practice
The recurring flaw patterns the LSAT tests — causation from correlation, unrepresentative samples, and reversed conditionals — plus three original practice questions.
Read the complete guide →04LSAT Inference Questions: Must Be True, Not Might Be True, With Practice
Why an inference question's correct answer follows strictly from the stated facts, common conditional-chain traps, and three original practice questions.
Read the complete guide →05LSAT Parallel Reasoning and Parallel Flaw Questions, With Practice
How to match an argument's abstract logical structure across unrelated topics, ignoring subject matter, plus three original practice questions.
Read the complete guide →06LSAT Paradox and Resolve-the-Discrepancy Questions, With Practice
How to reconcile two seemingly conflicting facts without denying either one, plus three original practice questions with full explanations.
Read the complete guide →07LSAT Main Point and Method of Reasoning Questions, With Practice
How to separate a passage's ultimate conclusion from its supporting premises, and how to describe an argument's structure abstractly, plus three original practice questions.
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