Even though the questions here are good practice because they are so difficult, the explanations offered are incomplete or unenlightening or both. As a study guide, it is a resounding failure. Some answers are unreasonable and some questions --like one about pushing buttoms to get certain results, and then figuring out how to do the same if one button stops working-- are ridculous because there is no way to answer a question like that in the alloted time unless you are a computer. As such, it has no practical value for the LSAT.

Do not buy this book to learn about the LSAT because you won't - you will only be confused and discouraged. One "piece of advice" that I found inappropriate (and symbolic of the attitude in the entire book) was where it says something like "let's face it, not everyone can score a 170." That may be true but it is the wrong thing to say in a book that purports to help you get there.
Some of the answer explanations read something like: "Yuck! Luckily the answer is "A" so you do not have to go further down the list."
Overall, I would only recommend this book if you are doing so well in practice tests that you are bored, it is a Sunday, there is nothing to do, you want a good challenge, and can tell the difference between difficult questions and absurd ones.

I recently decided to take the LSATs (and possibly apply to Law School). I have virtually no prior knowledge about anything related to LSAT but just went out and purchased this book b/c it was published recently and the Princeton Review's familiar name. Let me just say that I was in for a shock. This book starts you off w/ several drill sections starting w/ logical reasoning. Like any good future lawyer, I just started working through these w/o reading any of the prefaces and/or tips section. I scored above 95% in my GRE verbal section so I did not think the LSAT would be that hard. I was throughly shocked because I could not even get 1/2 of drill questions right. The explanations did little to help me see the "right" answer. I've since taken a practice exam (a real test from prev years) and was surprised once again to find that the questions are indeed much easier(I can't stress this enough) than the ones found in this book. At this point, I'm not sure this book will help b/c some of questions are so convoluted (I'm convinced some of the questions deliberately try to mislead you which supposedly LSAT questions are not) that you will scratch your head for days.

This book reminds me of high school baseball. Let me explain.

I'd always warm up and practice using a bat that weighed about 8 pounds. My game bat weighed 30 ounces, a little less than 2 pounds. I'd hit cage balls with the heavy bat, pitched nearly full speed. After this routine, hitting with the regular bat was as easy as reality evasion for a schizophrenic. In fact, it took a little while to adjust to game conditions.

It's the same way with this book, except the bat would equate to about 25 pounds. After the reaming you experience trying these args and games, the actual test will feel like falling off a log.

Even if you, like I, disagree with several of the correct answers presented herein, the fact remains that you have to devote so much of your cpu to consideration of every possible nuance. It's like playing Warcraft III and Everquest at the same time while watching the first two LOTR dvds (LSAT workout) and running a graphics editor using an old Intel Celeron and 256 MB of RAM, and then playing beginner minesweeper (the actual preptests) on a machine with dual 3GHz and a gig.

Get this book, but not before Oct. 1, 2005. Dig?

The toughest collection of LSAT questions I've ever seen. Not for the faint of heart, but if you're shooting for a top score, this is definitely the book to get. If you can work these logic games, then anything you see on the real LSAT will seem tame by comparison.