The Law School Admission Test, administered in June, October, December, and February is used as a critical and objective factor in assessing the law school applicants. Aside from an unscored writing sample which could be used as a tiebreaker, the exam contains five 35-minute sections of multiple-choice questions in three different item topics, and four of the sections contribute to the test taker's score. (A random-topic experimental section is used to try out new questions.) I offer tutoring on two area topics of the exam noted below. LSAT questions are typically developed to evaluate thinking skills which have been acquired over a long period of time and are not related to any specific field of study; however, are totally coachable.

Analytical Reasoning Questions (aka Logic Games - One Section): Designed to measure your ability to perceive a structure of relationships and to draw logical conclusions about that structure. You are asked to make deductions from a set of statements, rules, or conditions that describe relationships among entities such as persons, places, things, or events. Common question types in this section involve grouping, sequencing, matching, selection, distribution, and hybrid games.

Logical Reasoning Questions (aka Critical Reasoning - Two Sections): Devised to evaluate your ability to understand, analyze, criticize, and complete a variety of arguments. Each requires you to read and comprehend a short passage, then answer up to two questions about it. These will normally be addressing strengthening/weakening assertions, author's/passage's main presumptions, principles, and ideas, forms of argument, resolving discrepancies or paradoxes, conclusions/deductions, and parallel reasoning.

When you write, please specify a little background information including for instance what score range you are trying to get, and what prep books you have been using. My compensation rate for the service is negotiable (usually $25/hr). Here is a run-down of recent score ranges for admission to popular law schools in California: ** California Western School of Law 150-156 ** Chapman University 154-159 ** Golden Gate University 150-154 ** Loyola Marymount University 159-163 ** Stanford University 167-172 ** Thomas Jefferson School of Law 148-151 ** University of California (Hastings) 160-165 ** University of California--Berkeley 163-170 ** University of California--Davis 159-165 ** University of California--Los Angeles 163-169 ** University of La Verne 149-155 ** University of San Diego 160-164 ** University of San Francisco 156-161 ** University of Southern California 165-167 ** University of the Pacific 155-159 ** Whittier Law School 149-153