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MORE than cracked up to be!
I read hundreds of reviews before settling on this series for my LSAT prep, and they come mostly to the same conclusion about what this is: the gold standard.I consider it to be so very much more. I received it two days ago and am already making significant progress through it. I decided to not take any pre-test or so much as go through a whole exam before starting. I don't want to setup any self-fulfilling prophecies about how I will or won't perform, before I have a solid theoretical understanding of the exam, its content, and how to take the exam. I do keep finding that when something is expected to be difficult to understand or get right (an example question or part of a passage), I almost always find it way easier than I'm expected to, but I try not to dwell on those unavoidable encounters.I don't want my LSAT prep to be one long, uphill battle as is almost always the case in any type of prep course or with a tutor, and I also don't want to overestimate or underestimate my ability with any portion of the exam before learning all I can about said section or content, since natural brilliance is almost always the first to go out the window under stressful circumstances such as exam day itself. I am finding these books to be exhaustive, truly excellent “bibles” on knowing everything you need to in order to address each section as effectively as possible (or so I hope I can look forward to being the result).I find the content of material value in these books to be thus-far divided into a couple of categories: 1) the structure, objectives, and constraints of the exam section being discussed, 2) what the LSAT test writers are thinking or attempting to achieve, 3) what you as the test-taker must do or not do, 4) important observations or ideas about the general test-taking, the exam, or the exam's contents, 5) examples of ideas or observations that can be made about exam content and how it can be interpreted or practiced for, and 6) objectives the book itself has and will either later or immediately address (ongoing indexing). I am finding it helpful to fully-highlight or highlight-underline these categories respectively as 1) purple, 2) blue, 3) green, 4) yellow, 5) pink, 6) orange. I fully-highlight most-important content and highlight-underline important supporting information. I then further black-pen-underline really crucial points.Tearing apart my study materials in this way is how I found always worked best for getting excellent grades in undergrad, and I fully recommend it for these books. It already makes it extremely easy to go back through what I've already read. If you simply try to read these books cover-to-cover without breaking them down similar to this, I imagine they will be of far-lesser use to you. They will also be much-more-excruciating to get through.These books are extremely large, and every page makes plenty of extremely-crucial points about what is being discussed, and anyone would be foolish if they believed all of the important info would stay with them after only being read once. You will have no idea what to look for going back through, if important text isn't visually set apart from filler (useless) text and categorized within itself. Most of all, I simply can't imagine how boring and endless it would be otherwise to just sit and read an endless series of test-taking books like these. It's not Harry Potter, I regret to inform you.I definitely recommend the trilogy over the individual books. Your strengths need constant reinforcement alongside addressing your weaknesses, and if you only focus on your weaknesses, that psychological negativity will also completely corrode your test-taking process overall. Not reinforcing your strengths will also deprive you of opportunity to perform even better and less-carelessly with them and get even more questions right in your stronger sections.I would highly recommend these books in order to take charge of your own test-taking instead of expecting a class or tutor to give you everything you need. I would also suggest viewing any class or tutor you still decide to work with as being a useful addition to this series instead of the other way around. At the end of the day, the only understanding of this test that has value to you is your own understanding, no one else's. This book goes to great lengths to provide you with all the understanding you need.Furthermore, in absence of something like this, most people will fall in a practice for the sake of practice approach. Even if you review every single practice question you got wrong, you will still have just spent material time practicing getting it wrong and convincing yourself that getting that question wrong had value (which it didn't). Why not first understand the exam and its content and learn methods for addressing it, so that when you do begin to practice, you're practicing getting questions right?
L**A
LSAT study books
This was a gift for my son. He thought the study guides were helpful.
F**Z
Progress Report on my Reading Comprehension
I would gamble with odds of donating to say that the Logical Reasoning and Logical Games Bibles will propel my performance as the Reading Comprehension Bible has and continues to do so. Before taking advantage of Powerscore resources, my reading comprehension was mediocre in my opinion. I recall being partially rushed, lost, and over pondering about details in passages which resulted in over notating and forgetting what I then didn’t know what to focus on. To put it into perspective, I used to take twice the average time length it should more or less take on passages intentionally meant to be easiest. Now, with Powerscore I feel advantaged and humbled to appropriate and sharpen my capabilities towards taking the LSAT the way the test makers intended test takers to do so.
J**K
Don't hesitate. Dominate!
This trilogy is a great start to LSAT study prep, especially if you're self studier like me. I started off unable to complete more than half of the logic game section on practice tests. Now, after no prep other than reading these books, I am completing at least three out of four games per test with 100% accuracy with at least enough time left over to get a good start on the last game in each Analytical Reasoning section. I started out stronger in LR and RC sections, but found the Powerscore books in these categories very helpful as well (average improvement from around - 6 total in LR to maybe - 2 or - 3, and from about - 4 in RC to - 1 or - 0 on each practice test I've taken). Despite what I've heard others say, I found the RC Bible to be the most useful of the trilogy - the payoff was immediate. The LG and LR bibles are also very useful, though the information and recommended approaches may take a little longer to set in with you. This series has definitely increased my confidence for taking the real LSAT this fall. I can't recommend this series enough.
C**M
The first time I used some other testprep company (the fact that I can't remember their name says something)
I'm still waiting to get my scores back-but I used PowerScore while studying for my second round of the LSAT. The first time I used some other testprep company (the fact that I can't remember their name says something about how useful they were). After taking the LSAT for the second time I was discussing my shock at how easy it was with my sister-and she said something that really stood out to me: "maybe it wasn't easier maybe you were just more prepared this time". If that's the case, I totally attribute that to this trilogy! The difference was astounding to the point where I'm still kind of convinced that I may have just gotten an easier LSAT form than last time (it was ridiculously easy after studying with PowerScore). I bought this package 6 months ago, and I love how PowerScore explains LSAT concepts in comparison to some of the other company's I've used. Take it from someone who has taken the LSAT twice-PowerScore will make you master the concepts even if you don't realize it, and you will take the exam with ease and more confidence. I highly recommend!!***UPDATE! I JUST GOT MY JUNE LSAT BACK AND I SCORED TEN POINTS HIGHER THAN THE LAST LSAT I TOOK STUDYING WITH A DIFFERENT TEST PREP COMPANY!!!***
J**A
Pretty Good
There's a good amount of excess writing in here, but its a really useful tool. I'd use this as a supplement to online practice problems, but I used this as my initial stepping stone before doing practice problems as it gives really good guidelines on how to approach the different sections.Also the logic games will not be relevant very soon.
F**T
Great prep books
Accompany with the free Powerscore study guides and outlines that can be found on their website! Links all the books and gives custom schedules for breaking up studying depending on your timeline!
S**A
Fantastic job
Happy with the product reached on time and without any damage
F**D
Great resource
These are a great resource. My daugther is finding these very helpful in prepping for the LSAT exams she will be writing next year.
Y**N
VERY HELPFUL
Bought this for myself as I am trying to start studying for my LSAT. These books are very professional and thoroughly explain what is being said. Would highly recommend!
A**A
Happy with purchase
Good quality for price, exactly what I ordered
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