Part 0 · Rules of the road · Free · about 15 minutes
0.1 What AI can and cannot do for LSAT preparation
The one rule, three jobs AI does well, three it does badly, and why the exam itself is AI-free.
Step 1 · The traditional method
The traditional method: what the exam asks of you
The LSAT tests reasoning under time pressure, with nothing but the page in front of you. The scored sections are two Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section, each 35 minutes. Argumentative Writing is a separate 50-minute section: it is not scored, but it is required before law schools see your results. Since August 2024 there is no Analytical Reasoning (‘logic games’) section.
Because of that, the only preparation that counts is the one that trains you to reason accurately and quickly without help: reading carefully, spotting the structure of an argument, and eliminating wrong answers for stated reasons. Practice questions, timed sections and honest review of your mistakes are the core of any good LSAT course, including this one.
Step 2 · The AI workflow
Use your own AI, the careful way
Your own AI tool can speed up the review and the planning around your practice. It cannot take the test for you, and it can be fluently wrong. The one rule of this course: try first, then ask. Use the AI after you have committed to an answer, to learn from the gap, and always check what it says against the page.
Explain after you try
I answered question [paste the question] with choice [letter]. Before giving any verdict, restate the argument in one sentence, then tell me which sentence of the argument each answer choice does or does not connect to.
Why it works, and what you still check: It makes the AI work from the text of the question, not from memory of ‘LSAT questions in general’. Check each connection yourself.
Find my pattern
Here are my last ten mistakes, each with the question type and my own note on why I missed it: [paste]. What patterns do you see? List them without telling me what to study yet.
Why it works, and what you still check: Patterns in your own notes are reliable; advice about what to do about them still needs your judgment.
Test my understanding
I will explain, in my own words, why the right answer is right. Do not correct me yet. First ask me three questions that would reveal if I have misunderstood.
Why it works, and what you still check: The AI plays the sceptical friend. You do the reasoning, which is the skill the exam tests.
Step 3 · Catch the tutor’s mistake
Find the errors in this explanation
Below, an AI gives study advice about the LSAT. Compare each sentence with the fact sheet and the course rule. Some are right, and some are wrong in ways a confident tone hides.
The situation
You asked your AI for a study plan summary. You have the course fact sheet and the course rule next to it.
What you asked your AI
Tell me what the LSAT contains and how I should use AI to prepare.
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.The LSAT has two scored Logical Reasoning sections and one scored Reading Comprehension section, each 35 minutes long.
2.There is also a scored Analytical Reasoning (‘logic games’) section, so you should practise games every week.
3.Argumentative Writing is a separate 50-minute section.
4.The writing section is scored and counts towards your overall result.
5.LSAC lets candidates use a personal AI assistant during Reading Comprehension.
6.An AI can help you study, for example by explaining why an answer is wrong after you have tried the question.
7.Since the AI explained the answer fluently, you can be sure its explanation is correct.
8.Used well, AI can fully replace timed practice.
9.Timed practice without any tools is how you prepare for the real conditions of the exam.
Step 4 · Your checklist
Keep this beside you
- I try every question before I ask the AI anything.
- I check every AI explanation against the text of the question.
- I never rely on an AI’s statement about the exam’s rules: I check the official source.
- I keep timed practice free of tools, as the exam will be.
- I use the AI to learn from mistakes, not to avoid making them.
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.