Rating: Summary: Analytical Reasoning is hard; this book helps. Review: I've spent a lot of time studying for the LSAT and reading reviews people have written for different books. Having a lot of experience in this field, I would say the the Logic Games Bible is very helpful for three reasons. 1) People need extra help on the games section, and this provides a lot of practice. 2) It helps identify game types, then reinforces it through practice, so you're able to know how to approach a problem. 3) It provides games practice without having to ruin an entire practice test (or 3 or 4) by just taking the games section and not the other three. Anyway, I needed help with games, and while this book is not going to give you a 180, this book does provide a lot of help and practice where most LSAT takers desperately need it.
Rating: Summary: excellent book Review: Like many people who take the LSAT, I found the Logic Games section to be the most challenging. I splurged and purchased this book in addition to the 10 Official Prep Tests. I worked through this book from cover to cover and found it to be very thorough and clear. It clearly explains the different games types, how to set up the games with clear diagrams, and how to best approach each question. The book only uses actual LSAT questions as examples. This is a must! Some other prep books create their own, which may or maynot be like the ones you encounter on the LSAT. By the end of the book, my confidence in tackling this section was greatly improved. I was still challenged to finish all four games on my practice drills. With the help of this book, I came up with a strategy to deal with the time constraints. I just took the LSAT on Dec.6 and managed to get through the games section on time.
Rating: Summary: INSTEAD OF BUYING THIS, BUY MORE PRACTICE EXAMS Review: Nothing at all in here that you can't figure out on your own after looking at a few practice tests. Your money would be MUCH better spent on additional practice exams. [1 star] is only because it seems that [0 stars] is not an option.
Rating: Summary: Don't buy this unless your LSAT is lower than 150 Review: Ok, I can see how this book can help somebody who has very limited logical mind. If you are comfortable with logics, it would be far faster and easier to figure out the games in your own way. Try solving the old test problems and you will definitely find your own best diagrams to solve them efficiently. This book can even slow you down by making you follow the given steps which, I think, is a waste of time for those who can find their easiest way themselves.
Rating: Summary: Most Helpful Review: Out of all the LSAT prep books I have purchased and studied, the LSAT Logic Games Bible was by far the most helpful. Although some say that it is too methodical and complicated it is the ONLY prep book that provides students with a concrete basis on which to work through logic games. If you study the book as much as you should and practice real LSAT logic games (from previous tests) its methods will become like second nature allowing you to qucikly and efficiently attack every game the LSAT throws at you. I have purchased 4 other LSAT prep books before I purchased the LSAT Logic Games Bible (these included Kaplan, Princeton Review, and ARCO) and all of them left me further confused about the test and feeling less prepared. They focus on general strategies and familiarizing students with the LSAT, not on concrete preparation. The PowerScore books (Logic Games Bible and the new Logical Reasoning Bible) actually provide you with a workable strategy for most any type of question the LSAT can dish out. With plenty of practice and study these methods will become like second nature, with the possibility of drastically improving your LSAT score.
Rating: Summary: Poorly written Review: The premise of this book is good: to help you thoroughly breakdown the Logic Games section of the LSAT. Unfortunately this self-published book suffers from poor organization, arrogant tone, sparse explanations, and numerous gramatical errors. The techniques are useful, but there is very little feedback on WHEN to use them and HOW to use them. It makes me think that if the author wrote a cookbook, the recipe for a cake might read, "Take some flour, eggs, sugar, and other stuff. Put in bowl. Put in hot oven for a time. When it comes out (assuming you followed my instructions) it will be perfect. Practice this a hundred times until you get it right." I highly recommend "Master the LSAT" if you want a decent LSAT book. Or spend the money and take an LSAT course from a reputable company.
Rating: Summary: this one worked for me Review: There are two things to know about the LSAT before studying for it: (1) at least for native English speakers, the analytic (or "logic games") section of the test is by far the most challenging; and (2) no one can do well on the analytic section without study and practice. Thus the choice of the correct study plan geared toward the analytic/logic games section of the test can make or break your LSAT performance, which in turn can go far toward determining where you go to law school (local vs. regional, regional vs. national, top 15 vs. top 5, etc.). For some reason, I chose the PowerScore book, and now I'm sitting pretty. This guide has four huge advantages over other guides that I looked over: (1) the suggested notation is concise, thus leading to less scribbling time and more answering time in the test. This is very important insofar as the logic games section of the LSAT is the most "intensely timed" section of any test that I've ever taken. (2) the categorization of problem types is accurate and easy to understand. As any guide will tell you, the logic games featured in the LSAT fall into a small set of recognizable types. However, some guides that I've seen posit phalanx of potential problem types, including types of problems that make reference to non-essential attributes like time. This is BAD. A linear problem is a linear problem regardless of whether its linear in time or in space. Anything else is needless confusion. (3) this guide does NOT propose shortcuts to problem solving. By contrast, other guides that I encountered suggested FROM THE BEGINNING that test takers plan to skip a problem completely in order to save time. This is a supposed shortcut that actually cripples your performance before you've even begun. In reality, there are methods for solving logic game problems, but there are no short cuts. Use the methods recommended, practice alot, and then and only then consider skipping anything. (In my LSAT, I answered every problem, scored well, and had a minute or two left over to sharpen my pencil.) (3) the sample problems are mostly taken from actual LSATs, and the made up problems are true to the LSAT model. Particularly nice is the reference in the back of the book that characterizes EACH published LSAT analytic problem as regards problem type. In sum, I studied for a month and a half for the LSAT, using the Logic Games Bible as my study guide and LSAC's 10 More Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests for my practice material. I practiced the tests (both in part and in full) under timed conditions. I disregarded the reading comp. and logic sections almost entirely. Result: I scored well enough to get me where I want to go, and suffice it to say I was aiming high from the beginning.
Rating: Summary: this one worked for me Review: There are two things to know about the LSAT before studying for it: (1) at least for native English speakers, the analytic (or "logic games") section of the test is by far the most challenging; and (2) no one can do well on the analytic section without study and practice. Thus the choice of the correct study plan geared toward the analytic/logic games section of the test can make or break your LSAT performance, which in turn can go far toward determining where you go to law school (local vs. regional, regional vs. national, top 15 vs. top 5, etc.). For some reason, I chose the PowerScore book, and now I'm sitting pretty. This guide has four huge advantages over other guides that I looked over: (1) the suggested notation is concise, thus leading to less scribbling time and more answering time in the test. This is very important insofar as the logic games section of the LSAT is the most "intensely timed" section of any test that I've ever taken. (2) the categorization of problem types is accurate and easy to understand. As any guide will tell you, the logic games featured in the LSAT fall into a small set of recognizable types. However, some guides that I've seen posit phalanx of potential problem types, including types of problems that make reference to non-essential attributes like time. This is BAD. A linear problem is a linear problem regardless of whether its linear in time or in space. Anything else is needless confusion. (3) this guide does NOT propose shortcuts to problem solving. By contrast, other guides that I encountered suggested FROM THE BEGINNING that test takers plan to skip a problem completely in order to save time. This is a supposed shortcut that actually cripples your performance before you've even begun. In reality, there are methods for solving logic game problems, but there are no short cuts. Use the methods recommended, practice alot, and then and only then consider skipping anything. (In my LSAT, I answered every problem, scored well, and had a minute or two left over to sharpen my pencil.) (3) the sample problems are mostly taken from actual LSATs, and the made up problems are true to the LSAT model. Particularly nice is the reference in the back of the book that characterizes EACH published LSAT analytic problem as regards problem type. In sum, I studied for a month and a half for the LSAT, using the Logic Games Bible as my study guide and LSAC's 10 More Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests for my practice material. I practiced the tests (both in part and in full) under timed conditions. I disregarded the reading comp. and logic sections almost entirely. Result: I scored well enough to get me where I want to go, and suffice it to say I was aiming high from the beginning.
Rating: Summary: The best way to improve your LSAT Score! Review: There is nothing else on the market that is better at explaining the games secion of the LSAT. You can buy a more general book for the other question types, but for Games...this is the "Bible". This book takes you through each type of game that exists, tells you how to approach the question and set up diagrams effectively--and to get it done quickly. They use real LSAT questions...a lot of them. The explanations are easy to understand, detailed, and thorough. If you read this and work through each question, your score WILL improve. Mine did!
Rating: Summary: By far the best book I found for the LSAT Games Section! Review: This book is amazing in its detailed explanation of how to approach every type of logic game. It teaches how to identify the game types, what type of diagram to create, how to make inferences, and strategies for answering different types of questions. Most books I used were very general, but the techniques here are very specific and really work! My primary weakness in approaching Logic Games was speed. The Bible taught me what to look for and how to go faster, and gave me the confidence to proceed with certainty. Of extreme benefit to me was the fact that this book uses real LSAT games from past tests. Most of the other books I tried used fake games, and when I was practicing with real tests (a must!), I felt the difference. With the Games Bible I knew that everything I was seeing was real, and that gave me a lot more confidence that I was preparing properly. I also appreciated the drills in each section because they showed how to apply the techniques, and they provided useful notes on why certain techniques should be used at certain times. The LSAT is such a hard test that you can really get confused if you don't know what to do, and I felt this book made those decisions much clearer. This Games Bible seemed designed for people really trying to improve their score, and it worked for me. If you are at all worried about the LSAT (who isn't?), I highly recommend this book to you!
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