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The Key to the LSAT is Questioning Assumptions

Did you know that you don't have to spend your time in law school worrying about the bar exam? According to David Stoll from the Princeton Review, you should take classes that are interesting you. In other words, law school is about making the legal system fun for yourself and about designing your own education. The three-month bar review will prepare you for the big exam. He also adds that if you find a professor you like, pursue that professor's other courses. A great law professor will bring any aspect of legalese to life.

These weren't Stoll's only pieces of time tested advice. He breaks the LSAT into four pieces:
» Logic Games: Typically ordering games or grouping games
» Reading Comprehension: Four very dense reading passages that cover Natural History, Social Science, Humanities & the Arts, and Law
» Two Argument Sections: Usually short paragraphs in which recommendations are argued or a study is discussed.

The real key to outwitting the LSAT is to always question assumptions. On the LSAT a "premise" is a stated fact, and an "assumption" is anything related to the facts that has not been written down. The trick to the Argument Sections of the test is to know the difference between what has been clearly stated and what has been left unstated. Knowing this helps to identify correct answers on the test.

Stoll's final piece of advice is that students should always consider how test writers think. A student should always ask, "Do I know this for a fact based on the words the author chose to use?" And he jokes that, "Taking this test is almost like being a robot in a way. We simply need to avoid the flaws that humans run again and again in everyday life."

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