Kaplan LSAT 2011 Premier with CD-ROM (Kaplan LSAT Premier Program (W/CD))

 (22 customer reviews)

This is actually a review of the 2010-2011 edition. I reproduce it here because almost nothing has changed in the few months between publication of the last book and this 2011 version.

The LSAT exam has rules of its own, and there is not enough time during the exam to figure out what those rules are. If you learn what they are before you go in -- you can spend your energy answering the immediate questions at hand rather than wasting valuable time trying to figure out what each question is asking.

The purpose of both the LSAT prep books and the LSAT prep courses is to teach you exactly that: the basic rules of the LSAT exam questions.

Whether you are someone who is good at learning from a book or do better in a course with a live classroom, only you can know. My experience is that the overwhelming majority of people do better in a course -- but some do better from books.

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I purchased the Kaplan LSAT Premier 2011 book a couple months ago to prepare for the October LSAT. And I found the basic information, sample questions and practice tests to be helpful in preparing me for the information that will be on the test. However, when I went to go through some of the additional practice problems on the CD-ROM I ran into a problem.

Apparently Kaplan has decided that they don't need to update their CD-ROM technology to the 2010 - yet alone the 2011 - standards. After unsuccessfully attempting to access the CD-ROM on three computers and google-ing the issue, it seems that the CD-ROM is useless for anyone with a current OS - I have Windows 7.

So, if you were interested in the additional practice questions/tests on the CD-ROM and you have Windows 7, find another LSAT prep book...

I found this book to be helpful with introducing the Lsat but if you want to get everything you need in order to score high on the test, you need more than this book. Actually, I was a bit disappointed because I felt this book was just setting me up to take the Kaplan class, which I brought the book because I cannot afford the classes. I am ordering the powerscore workbook and bible in hopes of getting all the info I need...I will be posting a review of that when I get it.