Amy Hackney Blackwell

Many cultures create a mythology to help explain the workings of the world. Western civilization is most familiar with the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology, who have comparable powers, but different names. And mythology is created often in response to human history, so a historical timeline can be a good reference to have.

So you’re seriously considering law school. You’re getting ready to take the LSAT. Have you thought about what you’d do with a law degree? A degree of Juris Doctor can lead down all sorts of roads. A lawyer isn’t a multipurpose legal expert; different lawyers specialize in different fields. Business/Corporate Some lawyers spend all their time working on behalf of corporations.

Reading for the LSAT isn’t the same as reading for pleasure or even for college coursework. You have very little time to comprehend the material and make reasoned analyses, so make sure you keep these tips in mind to maximize your limited time. Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate — even if you’re bored. Work one reading passage at a time; answer all the questions, and then move on.

Some LSAT test-takers find that an alternative approach to reading questions saves them time and helps them focus on the relevant details of each reading passage. You may want to try this approach to discover whether it works well for you. Instead of giving a reading passage a once-through skim before you tackle the questions, jump into the questions first.

Your position on the LSAT essay is only as clear as your writing style. Admissions officers pay attention to your grammar and usage, so follow these tips for keeping your essay crisp and clean. Punctuation The most common punctuation errors involve commas and semicolons. Semicolons join independent clauses when the thoughts they convey are related enough to keep them in the same sentence.

Some people just naturally do well on standardized tests. They fly through the ACT and SAT (the ones you take to get into college), ace the GRE and GMAT (the ones you take to get into graduate school), and consider the LSAT easy. What makes them so successful at taking tests in general and the LSAT in particular?

A key to successfully answering logical reasoning questions is to understand how the LSAT uses certain words. The LSAT logical reasoning section applies these terms in a near-mathematical sense. Finding the correct answers to certain questions depends on the way the test-makers use these terms. Quantity terminology Make sure you’re familiar with terms that indicate quantities: None: This one is easy.

Occasionally, a logic game question lists five numerical answer choices. That list is your clue that you may be dealing with a question that asks for the maximum or minimum number of ways a particular logic game event could occur. Often this question type includes maximum or minimum in the question’s phrasing.