My 3 Month LSAT Self-Study Plan
Week 1 and 2:
You should spend your first two weeks learning about LSAT skills and question types. What
source should you use? I personally used the Powerscore bibles and Barron’s LSAT logic games
book. If you bought some other prep test company’s books, use those. The source of your
information isn’t important because they will all teach you the same things. You should cover the
basics of logical reasoning, logic games and reading comprehension. Also during your first two
weeks, you should be working through older prep tests, untimed.
Also during your first two weeks, you should be working through older prep tests. At this point,
it’s not important to time yourself, just get yourself familiar with question types.
Week 3:
Logical Reasoning:
Using as many older prep tests by LSAC as time permits (pre 52) prep tests , do as many Main
Conclusion, Role of Statement, and Method of Reasoning questions as you can. When you
review these questions, make sure you can properly identify background information, premises,
sub-conclusions, and main conclusions.
Logic Games:
Complete a few simple sequencing games a day, untimed. At this point you just want to get
familiar with set-ups and question stems. It’s important to find explanations for the games that
you are working through. You can search the internet for free resources, or you sign up for an
LSAT course to get explanations.
Reading Comprehension:
Complete 3 full sections from older prep tests. Again, don’t worry about timing at this
stage. Complete 3 full sections from older prep tests. Again, don’t worry about timing at this
stage. If you are struggling (more than 10 wrong), consider subscribing to The Economist. Read
a few articles a day to improve comprehension and speed. If you are having trouble finding the
main point of the passage, then you need to work on that. If you are able to find the main point,
but are still missing a lot of questions, re-read your reading comprehension guide to develop a
better approach for each question type.
Week 4:
Logical Reasoning:
When you are confident in your ability to break down arguments, you can move on to flaw and
assumption questions. You can spend a week working through as many flaw necessary and
sufficient question types as possible.
Logic Games:
Stick with easy sequencing games, but now start timing how fast you can complete the
games. By the end of the 3 months, you should aim to do easy sequencing games in under 6
minutes, but for now, just aim for 10 minutes.
Reading Comprehension:
Start doing timed sections. 75 percent of your time should go towards your review process. You
should review each passage until you clearly understand the main point, and why each correct
answer choice is right, and why the wrong answers are not.
Week 5:
Logical Reasoning:
After a week of assumption questions, you are ready to move on to principle, strengthen, and
weaken questions. Spend the week going through these question types.
Logic Games:
Look for more advanced sequence games (usually not the first game of a section), which will
require you to make more inferences.
Reading Comprehension:
Keep doing timed sections and reading as many articles as possible.
Don’t slavishly stick to an even mix of question types. If you are struggling with logic
games or reading comprehension questions more, work more of those sections in to your
schedule so that you see faster improvements there.
Week 6:
Logical Reasoning:
This is the week you will master your formal logic skills. You will work through as many
inference questions (most strongly supported and must be true questions), and parallel reasoning
and flawed parallel reasoning questions. There is a lot of formal logic in these question types, so
spend time understanding conditional statements, and learning about the types of inferences that
can be made from conditional chains.
Logic Games:
Keeping with the formal logic skill set, work on In and Out games this week. Learn how to write
out conditional statements, and to make formal logic chains.
Reading Comprehension:
Do as many older sections as possible.
Don’t slavishly stick to an even mix of question types. If you are struggling with logic games or
reading comprehension questions more, work more of those sections in to your schedule so that
you see faster improvements there.
Week 7:
You can start working through more recent tests. (prep test 52-61)
When doing timed sections, begin stringing sections together to begin building endurance.
Logical Reasoning:
Do one or two full timed logical reasoning sections per day. After you complete the sections,
spend twice the time thoroughly reviewing each question.
Logic Games:
Practice standard grouping games this week (three group games). Start with easier games, then
proceed to more difficult games.
Reading Comprehension:
Practice timed sections from prep tests. 52-61.
Don’t slavishly stick to an even mix of question types. If you are struggling with logic games or
reading comprehension questions more, work more of those sections in to your schedule so that
you see faster improvements there.
Week 8/:
Logical Reasoning:
Continue doing one or two full timed logical reasoning sections per day and reviewing
adequately.
Logic Games:
Practice standard grouping games this week (three group games). Start with easier games, then
proceed to more difficult games.
Reading Comprehension:
Continue with timed sections from prep tests. 52-61.
Weeks \8-12
You are ready to work through full timed practice tests. Ideally, you can work through 5-7 prep
tests per week. Remember that you need to adequately review each test too. Depending on how
fast you work, save the most recent prep tests for the last two weeks before your LSAT.