One Month LSAT Study Plan (Updated 2024)

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Take the LSAT Diagnostic Test

Take the June 2007 PT in Magoosh. (Bonus: if you are not yet a Magoosh student, you can access it and full text and video explanations for FREE here.) Time each section precisely, and complete all the sections.

Note: Your practice tests will be 35 minutes shorter than the real exam because they will not contain an Experimental section. If you prefer to mimic the actual test conditions precisely, use one section from PT 70 (found in your LHA account) during each practice test as an “Experimental” section.

Note about the LSAT-Flex: The LSAT-Flex does not contain an experimental section and it also has one fewer Logical Reasoning section. If you know you are going to be taking the LSAT-Flex, you can feel free to adjust your practice tests to match the Flex format. However, building stamina and getting extra practice is not a bad thing, so if you can, we would recommend taking full-length tests even if you are taking the Flex. Check out our video lesson “Tips for the LSAT-Flex”,* as well as our resources on this blog, including an LSAT Flex score conversion table.* Just type “LSAT-Flex” in the search bar.

After your practice test, check your answers, and calculate your score. If you added an Experimental section, don’t include that section in your score calculation. Also, don’t try to review your incorrect answers just yet.

Intro to Logic Games

Watch all lessons in the “Section Scoring, Pacing, and Structure” section of the LG component of Magoosh’s LSAT program. These include:

• Intro *
• Scoring and Goal Setting *
• Pacing Strategy *
• Game Structure
• Intro to Game Types
• Intro To Sequencing Games
• Intro to Grouping Games
• Intro to Matching Games
• Intro to Rare Game Types
• Global Question Types
• Local Question Types

• Take a break and then get back into those Logic Games lessons!

Watch all of the “Formal Logic Basics” lessons and the first three lessons in the “Attacking the Games” section of LG. These lessons are titled:

• If/Then Statements and Contrapositives *
• Alternate Forms of If/Then
• Compound Statements
• General Game Strategy *
• Sequencing Setup**
• Sequencing Questions**

**The last two lessons will involve solving your first Sequencing game. Make sure to take the time to work this game out thoroughly.

Next, complete two or three sequencing games in the custom practice section of your online Magoosh account. Score the games and look over any incorrect answers.

Intro to Logical Reasoning

Watch all lessons in the “Section Pacing, Structure, and Strategy” section of the LR component of the Magoosh program. These include:

• Intro to LR *
• Pacing Strategy
• Question Structure
• Attacking the Questions I
• Attacking the Questions II

• Take a break before watching the next lessons!

Watch the following LR lessons:

• Necessary Assumption Questions I *
• Necessary Assumption Questions II
• Sufficient Assumption Questions
• Necessary vs. Sufficient Assumptions
• Formal Logic and Assumption Questions
• Strengthen Questions
• Weaken Questions and Causal Logic

Each of these videos contains sample questions. Make sure to pause the videos and complete the questions thoroughly as the videos instruct.

Using “custom practice” in Magoosh, complete a total of 30 assumption, strengthen, and weaken LR questions. Don’t time yourself at this point – just focus on your approach to the question. Score the questions, look over any incorrect answers, and set up your LR Error Log, where you’ll keep track of all the questions you answer incorrectly.

Intro to Reading Comprehension

Watch the following videos from the RC component of the Magoosh LSAT program:

• Intro to RC *
• Reading Strategies
• Annotating the Passages
• Detail Question I

Use the remainder of the day to review your diagnostic test from Week 1, watch the explanation videos, and enter questions you missed on your error logs before taking another practice test on the next study day.

Practice Test #1

Under test-like conditions, take official PT 80, timed. (Or another practice test on Magoosh or on your LHA account if you have already taken PT 80.)

Analyze your practice test results and enter them into your RC and LR error logs.

Look for patterns in your results where you missed a bunch of questions in a row or where you didn’t perform the way you expected. Examine those areas to determine whether the problem was the result of:

• truly difficult content,
• a lapse in focus,
• poorly executed methods, or
• lack of time.

Building an Error Log

You can also start building a LG error log if you’d like. For a LG error log, you should record:

• Test number
• Section number
• Game number
• Question number
• Game type
• Question type (global vs. local)

An LG error log will help you identify which game types you struggle with most and how effectively you are building and reusing your diagrams. Those who miss mostly global questions may not be drawing detailed enough master diagrams. On the other hand, those who miss mostly local questions may be inaccurately redrawing diagrams between questions or applying local diagrams to other local questions where they are technically inapplicable.

Practice Test Analysis Tips

Remember, practice tests are like dress rehearsals. You’re trying to make things go wrong so that you can fix them before the real performance. If you notice that you made preventable mistakes on this practice test (those caused by anything other than truly difficult content), write down those mistakes along with a plan to avoid them on the real test day.

For example, if you know you lost focus halfway through an LR section, you can write down a solution like, “When I lose focus, I will put my pencil down, close my eyes, breath deeply three times, and then recite my goals and strategies for this test section. Then I can resume working on the next question using the appropriate step by step method.”

If timing was your issue, you could address it with the following solution: “If I am falling behind my pace because I am stuck on a question, I will mark the question and skip it, increase my allowed number of guesses by 1, and then return to that question at the end only if time allows.”

Dive Into Logical Reasoning and Logic Games

LR:
Watch the following lessons from the LR component of Magoosh’s LSAT program:

• Flaw Questions I
• Flaw Questions II
• Flaw Questions III
• Flaw Questions IV
• Flaw Questions V
• Inference Questions
• Principle-Identify Questions
• Principle-Application Questions
• Paradox Questions

• Take a break!

Then, watch the following videos from the LG component of the Magoosh LSAT program.

LG:

• Fixed Grouping Setup *
• Fixed Grouping Questions
• Floating Grouping Setup
• Floating Grouping Questions

Complete a few logic games in your LHA account. You can use our Logic Games to Practice resource to practice some games. Score the games, and look over any incorrect answers.

Complete 25 Logical Reasoning questions in your Magoosh account.

Dive Into Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension

Watch the following videos from the LR component of the Magoosh LSAT program:

• Role of Statement Questions
• Method of Reasoning Questions
• Parallel Reasoning Questions
• Point of Contention Questions

Complete 5 practice questions through Magoosh custom practice for each of these question types. For each question, focus on applying a consistent approach rather than merely answering the question correctly.

Watch the following videos from the RC component of the Magoosh LSAT program:

• Detail Question II
• Inference Questions
• Comparative Passages I
• Comparative Passages II
• RC Review and Study Tips

Next, practice your approach to RC by completing a few passages through your online Magoosh account. For each passage, annotate the transitional language and write down the author’s main idea and purpose before moving to the questions. For each Comparative Reading passage, make sure to note the common scope of the passages, and where the authors’ perspectives differ within that scope. For the questions, think about whether you’re being asked for detail, theme, or structure, and try to pick an answer choice that addresses the correct level of analysis. Use the process of elimination aggressively.

Score the sections, enter incorrect answers into your error logs.

Deeper Dive Into Logical Reasoning and Logic Games

Learn about conditional, causal, and quantitative logic by watching the following lessons:

1. Introduction to Conditional Logic
2. Conditional Logic I
3. Causal Logic I
4. Quantitative Logic I

Complete 1 section of LR from any PT 60 through 69 in your LawHub Advantage account. For each question:

1. Note the question type
2. Apply a consistent approach by: reading the question first, then reading the argument, and paraphrasing an answer before reading the answer choices.

• Take a break!

Then, watch the following videos from the LG component of the Magoosh LSAT program:

• Hybrid – Sequencing/Matching Setup
• Hybrid – Sequencing/Matching Questions

Complete a few games from any PT 60 through 69 in your LawHub Advantage account, untimed. Score and review any questions you answered incorrectly. For any game where you missed more than 2 questions, take a few minutes to try and redraw your diagrams and rules, making sure that you set the diagram up as simple and accurate, and that you didn’t miss an opportunity for Limited Options or to incorporate rules directly into your diagrams.

Mixed Practice

Watch the following lessons:

1. Conditional Logic II
2. Causal Logic II
3. Quantitative Logic II

Complete one section of LR in custom practice in Magoosh. After the section, score it and enter incorrect answers into your LR error log.
 
Next, flip through the LG you have completed thus far this week. Identify whether there is a game type that consistently gives you more trouble than the others. If so, use your online practice problems to focus on that game type. Then, complete 4 Logic Games in custom practice in Magoosh (in practice mode). Attempt the games in the order you feel most confident by filtering based on game type, leaving for last the game type that you struggle with most. This approach will help you get the most points possible!

Next, analyze your RC error log to determine whether there is a particular type of passage or type of question that most challenges you. If so, plan to leave that passage type for the end, or plan to guess on a couple questions of that type. Then, complete 4 passages of RC from any PT 60 – 69 in your Official LHA account.

Now, analyze your LR error log to determine which questions you struggle with most. Be on the lookout for those questions as you complete another 25 LR questions in custom practice in Magoosh.

Review incorrect answers on the Review screen in Magoosh and enter info into your error logs. Where did you make avoidable errors with content or pacing? Where did you discover content that was extremely difficult? Are you happy with the questions on which you guessed? Or would you change your guesses, given the chance?

Now go relax for a while and get rested for your next practice test.

Practice Test #2

Under test-like conditions, take official PT 79, timed. (Or another practice test on Magoosh or on your LHA account if you have already taken PT 79.)

After the test, score it, review your incorrect answers, and enter them into your error logs.

Start Reviewing

1. Map the transitional language, purpose, and main idea of at least 3 RC passages through your online account. Be sure to work on reading the passages quickly.
2. Master the “If/then Statements” deck of LSAT Flashcards * and complete 10 games from the “Mini LG” deck.
3. Analyze your LR error log and determine which sphere is your weakest. Then, using your LHA account, complete 25 LR questions.
4. Complete one section of LG, LR, and RC untimed in your LHA account, answering every question.
5. Review these three sections, identifying which question types are from each section gave you the most difficulty. Rewatch the applicable lesson for those question types if necessary, or use Magoosh’s online LSAT practice to target a small handful of practice problems of those question types.

Comprehensive Timed Practice

1. Complete all sections of PT 72, timed. You do not need to do this all at once, as this is not a full-length practice test. Break it up, take it slowly, and review each section thoroughly (entering incorrect answers into your error log) before beginning the next section.
2. Score and review the section, entering questions into your error logs where applicable.

Flashcard Practice

1. Master the “Logical Opposites” deck of LSAT Flashcards *
2. Map the transitional language, purpose, and main idea of at least 2 passages through your online account.
3. Master the “Transitional Language” deck of LSAT Flashcards * and complete another 5 games from your LHA account
4. Complete all the sections of PT 78, timed. You do not need to do this all at once as this is not a full-length practice test. Break it up, take it slowly, and review each section thoroughly (entering incorrect answers into your error log) before beginning the next section.

Practice Makes Perfect!

• Complete all the sections of PT 73, timed. You do not need to do this all at once, as this is not a full-length practice test. Break it up, take it slowly, and review each section thoroughly (entering incorrect answers into your error log) before beginning the next section.

Last Practice Test

Find a quiet space where you won’t be interrupted and take any official PT you have not yet taken in either your Magoosh or LHA account timed.

Review lessons and explanations relevant to the questions you missed.

Finally, consider if you should adjust your goal for the test. You will perform better if you are confident about achieving a reasonable goal then if you are stressed about not achieving an unrealistic one.

Timed Practice and Flashcards

• Complete one LR section, one LG section, and one RC section, all timed either in your Magoosh account or LHA. Be sure to answer every question. For any game types or question types that are giving you trouble, rewatch the applicable lessons.
• Complete any remaining LSAT Flashcards * and review as necessary.

Focus Your Review

Start today off by diving into your error logs and your scores from this week’s timed sections. Identify 2 skills you would like to focus on from each section. These skills could be specific question types or they could be more general skills like pacing or identifying difficult problems.
 
Rewatch the lessons that are most closely related to each of those skills. Then, write down a list of concrete ways to address each of those skills. If you have problems with process of elimination, a solution might be to recite common trap answer choices in your head to help you spot one. If you have problems with Assumption questions, you might want to ask yourself, “If this answer choice were false, would the conclusion still be true?” If so, that’s not the correct answer. Come up with at least one method of addressing each skill on your list.
 
Next, go back to your error log and work through as many of the problems on it as possible. This is your chance to revisit questions with which you struggled previously, and to apply your new methods and habits to them. This may be a frustrating process because you will only be tackling the questions you have missed in the past. Don’t get discouraged. Instead, remember that every question you get right the second time around is one you are unlikely to miss the next time you see something similar to it.

Final Tweaks

Review your notes from last week’s practice test and review your game plan. Then, practice one LR section, one LG section, and one RC section timed, keeping everything you’ve learned in mind. If you’ve made a plan to only do 3 out of the 4 Logic Games, for example, stick to that plan. Try to execute everything as you would imagine doing it on the test.

Review your answers to these sections.

Finally, end the day on a high note with a few easy questions. Pick your strongest type of Logic Game, do a few LR questions from early in a section, and do one RC passage that you actually find interesting.

Mentally Prepare for Test Day

You have one and only one LSAT assignment for today: review your methods, strategies, and test day procedures. Make sure you can easily remember each of the following:

• Your overall score goal for the exam, and roughly how many questions you need to answer correctly to reach it,
• How many questions you aim to answer correctly in each section,
• How many questions you are allowed to guess on in each section,
• What the different question, game, and passage types are for each section,
• Which question, game, and passage types are your strengths and which are your weaknesses,
• What to do if you panic or lose focus,
• How to get to the test center and what to bring to the test center, if you are taking the in-person LSAT. -OR- What you need to prepare in your space and are allowed to have with you, if you are taking the LSAT-Flex.*

If you can easily recite the answers to all of these questions, you are prepared to do your best on this exam given your current mastery of the content. So, once you’ve got the above stuff memorized, go relax. You’ve earned it!

Test Day is Here!

It’s test day, which means no last-minute prep! Do some light exercise, eat well, and give yourself plenty of time to get to the test center if you are taking the in-person LSAT. Make sure your at-home setup is ready to go, and double-check your tech and internet bandwidth if you are taking the LSAT-Flex.

Review your list of last-minute pointers one to two hours before the test, so you are feeling confident that you’ve put the work in and are ready to show it!