Before you commit yourself to anything, you should know the details. If you’re a guy and you’re going to a girl’s birthday party, you better make sure there is at least another dude there to talk sports when the girls start getting all chatty-Kathy. If you’re hitching a ride from someone, it’s good to know that he or she is not an axe murderer. And if you’re taking the LSAT, we at Blueprint LSAT Prep think it’s important to know the details of what you’ll be asked on the test.

Logical Reasoning

This section shows up the most on the LSAT, at two times per test (and possibly three if it ends up as the experimental section). In one brief moment of clarity, LSAC included this section the most because it is the one section on the LSAT that is most directly applicable to what goes on in law school. We at Blueprint LSAT Prep think that the best way to study for logical reasoning is to identify the different question types and clearly delineate what each type of question asks before tackling the answer choices. Additionally, the different question types on logical reasoning actually show up in other sections as well. It’s very meta.

Logic Games

Ah, the lovely logic games. A diverting pursuit after hours of slogging through reading comprehension and logical reasoning, logic games, in our expert opinion at Blueprint LSAT Prep, are just a weird section. We find that many of our LSAT students would rather study logic games than any of the other sections and we at Blueprint LSAT Prep can only assume this is due to the power of influence that the word “games” has over so many people. Just because it says games, people, doesn’t mean it’s easy. We at Blueprint LSAT Prep find that students almost invariably find logic games the hardest section at the beginning, but then learn the methods enough that it is largely one of the easier sections for people by the time they take the LSAT.

Reading comprehension

This is the one brutal section of the LSAT that doesn’t really get easier for people as time goes on, at least in our experience at Blueprint LSAT Prep. We feel that this is largely because students don’t feel they need to study for this section because “they already know how to read.” This is a flawed assumption, because what we at Blueprint LSAT Prep know is this: Reading comprehension on the LSAT isn’t like reading comprehension in any other field. If you just read it like you’re reading a novel, you’re going to end up in a world of hurt, as far as we’re concerned at Blueprint LSAT Prep. Think waterboarding kind of painful.

Article edited by Jodi Triplett and Trent Teti of Blueprint LSAT Preparation. Blueprint has been teaching the LSAT and imparting its wisdom to thousands of students since 2005. By 2105, Blueprint expects to have expanded beyond the LSAT into the field of world domination.