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What resources are there for LSAT preparation?
Home » Test Preparation » LSAT Preparation » What resources are there for LSAT preparation?The LSAC provides a free practice test and downloadable practice questions from their website, and also has official LSAT preparation books for purchase. These are a great place to start. However, if financially feasible, most law school applicants either take an LSAT preparation class or receive individual tutoring. Local test preparation specialists or individual tutors with high LSAT scores themselves and great teaching abilities may be well worth looking into, depending on where you live. The two largest national LSAT preparation specialists are the Princeton Review and Kaplan. Both offer classroom courses, online courses, and individualized tutoring either online or in person.
If you live in a city or town of decent size, or a college town of any size, you are very likely to be able to find a classroom course in LSAT preparation through either Kaplan or Princeton Review. Taking a classroom course will familiarize you with the specific types of questions on the test, help you begin to develop strategies for the various sections, and keep you on track with your practice tests and other preparation. Kaplan offers a regular course and an intensive course. In the standard Kaplan LSAT preparation course, you will take ten 3 1/2 hour classes, plus four additional practice test sessions, over the course of around eight weeks. This course costs $1249. For even more practice exams and additional class time, try Kaplan's "LSAT Extreme." It is only slightly more expensive, but is not an advantage for people who already have very busy or fluctuating schedules or who prefer to do more of the work on their own.
Princeton Review's LSAT class meets three times a week for about eleven weeks, and costs $1399. There is also an intensive class that meets three times a week for just one month. This class costs $1099. All of the classes for both Kaplan and Princeton Review are scheduled so that the class concludes just before one of the administrations of the LSAT, so that you can take the test while you still remember everything you learned.
Both companies offer online LSAT preparation courses: a great option for someone whose schedule will not accommodate a classroom course or who just wishes to study for the LSAT in the comfort of his or her own home. Princeton Review offers a wide array of online courses, of varying intensities: from a $99 mini-course to 24 hours of online tutoring for $2000. The LSAT experts at Kaplan also pride themselves on a very well organized, structured yet individualized online course. Kaplan's premium online course costs $1099.
Private, in-person LSAT tutoring can be extremely expensive, from $2000 for 16 hours with one of Princeton Review’s "Standard Tutors" to $7200 for 24 hours with a "Premier Tutor," who is an Analytical Reasoning machine, and will be available to you "around the clock" -- at least until your 24 hours run out. Kaplan's private tutoring options for the LSAT do not quite as high as Princeton Review’s, although they do not offer the three-tiered system of ranking tutors into Standard, Master, and Premier tutors. With Kaplan 35 hours of tutoring cost $4049, and 15 hours cost $2049.
Resources:
www.kaptest.com
www.princetonreview.com
www.lsac.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_School_Admission_Test
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