Part 0 · Rules of the road · Free · about 15 minutes
0.2 Privacy, honesty and your error log
What never to paste into an AI tool, how to keep an honest record of your mistakes, and why the log is the heart of the whole course.
Step 1 · The traditional method
The traditional method: learning from mistakes
Almost every improving LSAT student keeps an error log: a simple record of each question missed, with the question type, the reason for the miss (misread, did not know the technique, ran out of time, talked myself out of the right answer), and the correct reasoning written in your own words. The log turns scattered mistakes into patterns you can fix.
The method is slow on purpose. Writing the correct reasoning yourself is what builds the skill; copying the answer does not. Review the log weekly, and re-do old questions after a gap to see whether the pattern is really gone.
Step 2 · The AI workflow
Use your own AI, the careful way
Your AI can help you sort and summarise the log, which is dull work, and spot patterns across many entries. It should not write the entries for you, and it should not see anything it should not.
Sort my log
Below are my error-log entries. Group them by the reason I gave for each miss, count each group, and show the groups as a table. Do not add any reasons I did not write. [paste log]
Why it works, and what you still check: ‘Do not add reasons’ stops the AI from inventing explanations. You still read the table against your own log.
Spot a pattern
Looking only at the entries below, which question type and which reason for missing appear together most often? Give the entry numbers that support your answer.
Why it works, and what you still check: Asking for entry numbers lets you verify the pattern in seconds.
Turn a pattern into a drill
My most frequent mistake is: [your own words]. Without writing any new LSAT-style questions, describe a five-step routine I can apply to every question to catch that mistake.
Why it works, and what you still check: A routine you write down and practise beats generated practice questions of uncertain quality. Test the routine on real drills.
Step 3 · Catch the tutor’s mistake
Find the errors in this explanation
An AI summarises advice about privacy and the error log. Compare each sentence with the rules of the road on the right. Some sentences add things the rules never said.
The situation
You asked your AI to summarise the course’s rules for privacy and the error log.
What you asked your AI
Summarise the rules for what to paste into an AI tool and how to keep an error log.
Everything in this exercise, the argument, the answer choices and the AI’s explanation, is invented for this course. Use only the source pack below: nothing outside it counts.
The AI’s explanation
For each sentence, decide: is it supported by the source pack, or is there a problem? Choose the kind of problem if you can.
1.Do not paste personal data, such as your name, address or email, into an AI tool.
2.It is safe to paste your full score report, since the tool only uses it to help you.
3.Only paste material that you are allowed to copy, and check the terms of any other material first.
4.All official LSAC practice material may be pasted into any AI tool, since it is meant for students.
5.An error-log entry has three parts: the question type, the reason you missed it, and the correct reasoning in your own words.
6.Ask the AI to write your reasoning for each entry, which saves you time.
7.Review the log once a week and re-do old questions after a gap.
8.According to the LSAC guide on study methods, students who log their errors improve by 20 points.
Step 4 · Your checklist
Keep this beside you
- I paste only the question and my short notes, never personal data.
- I check the terms of any material before I paste it anywhere.
- Every error-log entry has a question type, a reason and my own correct reasoning.
- I never let the AI write my reasoning for me.
- I review the log weekly and re-do old questions after a gap.
The LSAT is taken without AI, and this course never suggests otherwise. Everything here is about how you prepare. We are not affiliated with LSAC; every question in this course is our own.