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Summary: Only if you're bored and desperate. Get Practice Tests 1st.
Review: First--completely ignore the logic games section in this book and get "LSAT Logic Games Bible." Second, order 10 ACTUAL LSATs and 10 MORE ACTUAL LSATs from Amazon, and do at least 4 or 5 argument sections and 3 or 4 reading comprehension sections. If you're still desperate enough to buy everything you can concerning LSAT preparation, just to see if you can scrounge up tips from everywhere possible, waste $10 on a used copy if your library doesn't have a Cracking the LSATs (Mine had a 2003 copy). The major mistakes (and few benefits) in this book are this: Logic Games: completely useless (refer above) Arguments: tells you to read the question stem first, which, in my opinion is a waste of time. But the one redeeming factor is that it breaks the question "types" into more categories than most books do, which can be helpful; when you're studying for this section of the test, don't get too caught up in "strategizing," just get familiar with the types of questions that you will see, anticipate them, and practice so many that when you're there on Test Day you can say to yourself "hey, I've seen many questions just like this one before on the practice tests" Reading Comprehension: This section tells you to preview the questions, which, again, is a total waste of time, and it also tells you to try to attempt reading the passage in 90 seconds, which is good advice if you're mildly retarded. On second thought, ignore the whole reading comprehension section, too.
Rating:
Summary: Only if you're bored and desperate. Get Practice Tests 1st.
Review: First--completely ignore the logic games section in this book and get "LSAT Logic Games Bible." Second, order 10 ACTUAL LSATs and 10 MORE ACTUAL LSATs from Amazon, and do at least 4 or 5 argument sections and 3 or 4 reading comprehension sections. If you're still desperate enough to buy everything you can concerning LSAT preparation, just to see if you can scrounge up tips from everywhere possible, waste $10 on a used copy if your library doesn't have a Cracking the LSATs (Mine had a 2003 copy). The major mistakes (and few benefits) in this book are this: Logic Games: completely useless (refer above) Arguments: tells you to read the question stem first, which, in my opinion is a waste of time. But the one redeeming factor is that it breaks the question "types" into more categories than most books do, which can be helpful; when you're studying for this section of the test, don't get too caught up in "strategizing," just get familiar with the types of questions that you will see, anticipate them, and practice so many that when you're there on Test Day you can say to yourself "hey, I've seen many questions just like this one before on the practice tests" Reading Comprehension: This section tells you to preview the questions, which, again, is a total waste of time, and it also tells you to try to attempt reading the passage in 90 seconds, which is good advice if you're mildly retarded. On second thought, ignore the whole reading comprehension section, too.
Rating:
Summary: Only if you're bored and desperate. Get Practice Tests 1st.
Review: First--completely ignore the logic games section in this book and get "LSAT Logic Games Bible." Second, order 10 ACTUAL LSATs and 10 MORE ACTUAL LSATs from Amazon, and do at least 4 or 5 argument sections and 3 or 4 reading comprehension sections. If you're still desperate enough to buy everything you can concerning LSAT preparation, just to see if you can scrounge up tips from everywhere possible, waste $10 on a used copy if your library doesn't have a Cracking the LSATs (Mine had a 2003 copy). The major mistakes (and few benefits) in this book are this: Logic Games: completely useless (refer above) Arguments: tells you to read the question stem first, which, in my opinion is a waste of time. But the one redeeming factor is that it breaks the question "types" into more categories than most books do, which can be helpful; when you're studying for this section of the test, don't get too caught up in "strategizing," just get familiar with the types of questions that you will see, anticipate them, and practice so many that when you're there on Test Day you can say to yourself "hey, I've seen many questions just like this one before on the practice tests" Reading Comprehension: This section tells you to preview the questions, which, again, is a total waste of time, and it also tells you to try to attempt reading the passage in 90 seconds, which is good advice if you're mildly retarded. On second thought, ignore the whole reading comprehension section, too.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing Effort from Princeton Review
Review: Given the relatively high quality of the Princeton Review organization, this book has a surprising number of inadequacies. The explanations of many of the so-called "correct" answers on the practice tests are illogical or wrong. This is particularly notable in the reading and and argumention sections. The Essay section gives smart tips and and is fully adequate, given how little weight schools put on it. I found the games section the strongest part of the book, both the text and the practice test questions. To maximize your score, You would be far better served by practicing on the official LSATs realeasesd by ETS and sold as 10 More Actual, Official LSAT Preptests ISBN: 0942639804. If you want an full-length official explanations of selected questions, get LSAT Official Tripleprep Plus put out by ETS ISBN 0942639758.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing Effort from Princeton Review
Review: Given the relatively high quality of the Princeton Review organization, this book has a surprising number of inadequacies. The explanations of many of the so-called "correct" answers on the practice tests are illogical or wrong. This is particularly notable in the reading and and argumention sections. The Essay section gives smart tips and and is fully adequate, given how little weight schools put on it. I found the games section the strongest part of the book, both the text and the practice test questions. To maximize your score, You would be far better served by practicing on the official LSATs realeasesd by ETS and sold as 10 More Actual, Official LSAT Preptests ISBN: 0942639804. If you want an full-length official explanations of selected questions, get LSAT Official Tripleprep Plus put out by ETS ISBN 0942639758.
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Summary: Jason
Review: I have the 2003 version of the book. It isn't a really good resource. The section on arguments is mediocre. The section on logical games is pretty bad with complicated diagram designs that are probably inapplicable at this point. I bought a book from NOVA Press that was a little better. However, I found that nothing beats
actual practice on the tests and recognizing the common types of flaws in the answer choices. I bought the logic games bible book, but I still haven't found much aid with those pesky games.
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Summary: Not the most stunning entry in the genre.
Review: I will admit upfront that I used the 2003 edition of "Cracking the LSAT" rather than the 2004 edition. But this one isn't a whole lot different. In summary, I'm very glad I used a lot of other books besides this one. The first, main complaint is that the Princeton books use made-up LSAT questions because Princeton Review didn't feel like licensing real ones from LSAC. It's essential that you train using actual LSAT questions. The ones offered here are sort of abstracted to show you the right "types" of questions, but end up not really being that similar to questions you actually get. Since there are literally thousands of real LSAT questions available, why settle? Secondly, this book is deliberately slanted to help you get a high-ish mediocre score, assuming you're starting with a low-ish mediocre one. The advice about skipping questions is absolutely fatal if you want to do really well. There are better discussions of time management in other books. In fact, if you take an initial practice test and score anywhere in the high 150s or above, this book will be nearly worthless to you.
Rating:
Summary: Not the most stunning entry in the genre.
Review: I will admit upfront that I used the 2003 edition of "Cracking the LSAT" rather than the 2004 edition. But this one isn't a whole lot different. In summary, I'm very glad I used a lot of other books besides this one. The first, main complaint is that the Princeton books use made-up LSAT questions because Princeton Review didn't feel like licensing real ones from LSAC. It's essential that you train using actual LSAT questions. The ones offered here are sort of abstracted to show you the right "types" of questions, but end up not really being that similar to questions you actually get. Since there are literally thousands of real LSAT questions available, why settle? Secondly, this book is deliberately slanted to help you get a high-ish mediocre score, assuming you're starting with a low-ish mediocre one. The advice about skipping questions is absolutely fatal if you want to do really well. There are better discussions of time management in other books. In fact, if you take an initial practice test and score anywhere in the high 150s or above, this book will be nearly worthless to you.
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Summary: A very poor choice.
Review: The Princeton Review LSAT book suffers from many deficiencies. Chief among them are poorly constructed, badly worded, or just plain incorrect practice problems. This stems, in large part, from their tendency to generate their own practice problems, ('similar' to LSAT problems), rather than using actual LSAT questions from old exams released by the testing agency.
Buying volumes of old, actual LSATs, as suggested by previous reviewers, is certainly a better strategy. But if you want explanations, instructions and analysis, in addition to just questions and answers, I suggest the two Kaplan LSAT books. Their basic LSAT book provides a good overview of the test, and it uses real questions from previous exams. Their LSAT 180 book explores a number of particularly difficult questions from old LSATs and explains how to tackle them. This is useful for the advanced student aiming to turn a good score into a great one.
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Summary: Very poorly edited, and just plain wrong at times
Review: The text of the book isn't that bad, although admittedly simple. But the CD, which has 4 of the practice tests on it, is terrible. Some of the questions have missing answer options or leave out essential information that you would need to solve the problem. I spent far too long on this, wondering what I was doing wrong, before I finally realized that it was a problem with the question itself.
Save your money, and save yourself the aggravation.
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