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With about 400 practice questions accompanied by full answer explanations, LSAT Workout focuses on the basic patterns of test question constructions and provides advanced discussions of test ideas. LSAT Workout also contains timed exercises styled like real LSAT sections.
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LSAT Workout (Graduate Test Prep)
- Paperback: 384 pages (2005-06-07)
- Publisher: Princeton Review; 2005-06-07
- Label: Princeton Review
- Studio: Princeton Review
- ISBN: 0375764593
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 13 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #110515
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Summary: This book has no relevance to the actual test 2008-10-05
Comment: This book is far too hard to have any bearing on an actual test. You have no idea how you are actually doing because you cannot accurately time yourself on the practice questions, as they probably take twice as long as normal questions. As for the tips and techniques, I can't remember any of them. I would only recommend this book if you have already completed every other book on the market, want to improve from 98% to 99%, or are lonely on a Friday night.
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Summary: FRUSTRATING!! 2008-09-06
Comment: After consistently scoring between 153-160 on 8 LSAT practice tests (actual tests from years' past)I picked up this book to aid in my studies. It literally brought me to tears when I couldn't even manage to get 24% of the problems correct! It was a completely different format and terribly difficult!! Don't use this book unless you have exhausted all of your other options and really want a challenge. I almost gave up on the LSAT all together. Try Kaplan or Powerscore but definitely NOT McGraw Hill... please read the reviews first on that one!! FULL of errors!!
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Summary: Only if you've really got nothing else to do... 2008-06-04
Comment: This book is meant to be a "hardest of" LSAT questions and on this level, the book is what it's advertised to be. However, the questions are hard for all the wrong reasons. (Note that the book contains only made up LSAT questions, not actual questions from administered LSATs).
On the LSAT, there is exactly one right answer and exactly four wrong ones. On a weaken question, exactly one answer will weaken the answer at all and exactly four answers will not weaken whatsoever.
This book attempts to make questions difficult by putting in multiple answers that could debatably be right. Then in the answer, they will equivocate with statements like 'this will weaken only in situations that...". No. On the LSAT, wrong answers on a weaken question never weaken ever. Period. Just because something doesn't weaken in 100% of cases doesn't matter. If it even weakens somewhat, it weakens. This book doesn't seem to understand this.
So, yes, by putting in multiple possibly correct answers, this book does contain some very difficult questions. Because now you are debating between two answers, each of which weaken and you're trying to decide which one does it more of the time than the other.
This is great for mental exercise, but isn't something that shows up on a real LSAT.
The logic games are also convoluted and totally non-representative. Again, great for a mental challenge. Not really useful for LSAT prep. If you want some more totally unrepresentative, but hard games, check out the purple REA LSAT games book.
One thing I did like about the book is the way they broke out questions by the "trick" type rather than just the question type. For example, there is a section on scope shifts in the conclusion, scope shifts within premises, which I thought was a good way of emphasizing what an LSAT taker should be looking out for. Too bad the questions they put after those short tutorial bits were so poorly constructed.
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Summary: Very Difficult, But Helpful 2007-10-06
Comment: I found the Princeton Review products to be much more difficult than the actual test. It helped me to prepare, but until I looked at sample tests and realized this, it had me rather scared of the test. Once I realized that the actual test wasn't going to be as difficult, it allowed me to calm down and prepare better in the knowledge that if I could answer these questions, I could answer anything on the test.
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Summary: Unhelpful 2007-09-20
Comment: I bought this book after studying extensively for the LSAT (my skills were well-developed). Long story short, it reduced my confidence and wasted my time.... This book is not representative of the DIFFICULT problems on the LSAT.
With questions that are overly difficult (logic games in particular), this book will waste your time... You will labor over interpreting ambiguous questions/solutions as opposed to practicing difficult, yet realistic problems... However, if you want a laugh (or cry), flip through the solutions pages of the Logic Games.
If you want to strive for the highest score, buy Kaplan's LSAT 180 book. This book is actually representative of the hardest LSAT questions, and it provides definitions that can actually be understood.
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LSAT Workout (Graduate Test Prep)
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