Go with Powerscore Logic Games Bible and Logical Reasoning Bible instead!

I wasted one whole week on this book (and that was four weeks before the LSAT) before I realized it was doing nothing for me. The chapters on the arguments section are worthless--the simulated LSAT questions in this book are much more difficult than the real ones, which serves only to confuse and discourage you. The chapter on the games section will help you with the most simple games, which account for one or two out of four games on the real test. Don't make the same mistake I did (I wish I had read some reader reviews before buying the book). In my opinon, the only LSAT prep books worth buying are the two PowerScore bibles. Plus, of course all the real LSATs you have time for. After working through the Princeton book, I was scoring 10 of 24 on the games. After practicing hard with the PowerScore Games Bible, I scored 22/24.

This book is like driving on a West Virginia highway. You're going along fine and WHAM-THUDDA-THUDDA... pothole city. The book has a unified tone and style, but sections, and even analysis of question types goes from good and detailed to hurried and worthless. Have just about thrown this book out the window a couple of times in frustration at the breezy and conversational, yet empty and repetitive text that fills pages but gives absolutely no insight into the test.

This prep book is a mixed bag. It's strongest on the Arguments and Games sections, weakest on Reading Comprehension. PR's method of diagramming Games is better than the methods found in other prep books: it's clear, intuitive, and easily and quickly grasped; helps avoid confusion during the panic of a real live test. PR's strategy for tackling the Arguments section is also very effective. But PR is WAY OFF in its advice for attacking the Reading Comprehension section. Do NOT follow PR's advice about reading the questions before reading the passage during the test. This stupid strategy wastes precious time and you probably won't be able to keep the six or seven questions in mind as you read the passage. Instead, in the four or five weeks before you take the test, familiarize yourself with the half-dozen TYPES of questions asked in the RC section of the LSAT (Main Idea, Description, Extension, Application, Structure, and Tone). Once you have internalized them, you will automatically mark the passage as you read it (by circling the Pivotal Words and annotating briefly in the margins), so that you can quickly refer to it as you answer the actual questions during the test.

Do not waste your time with the silly CD-ROM: the LSAT is a paper-and-pencil test, so get used to working in that medium. (Besides, PR's CD-ROM is full of bugs.) Get a whole bunch of Actual, Official LSATs, xerox them, and practice, practice, practice.

So, to recap: PR is good for diagramming Games, good for Arguments, and lousy for Reading Comp.

If you have to choose only one prep book, I'd recommend Jeff Kolby's "Master the LSAT". I also like PowerScore's "Logic Games Bible": its classification scheme is a little complicated at first, but if you learn it well, it will pay off handsomely come test time. Using these three prep books, plus Kaplan's "LSAT 180", and studying hard every day for two months, I was able to score a 174 on the last LSAT.

This LSAT Prep book is boring!!! If you want a general overview of the LSAT and a brief overview of some techniques, then maybe this would help you a little bit. The strategies they recommend are too time-consuming for me. Beware, this book didn't help me that much, if any, and the strategies are a little weird. I'd recommend buying PrepTests from LSAC and practicing with real tests rather than the ones provided here. There are plenty of better prep books than this one.