How to Score Higher on the LSAT by Thinking Less

 

Imagine, it’s Saturday, 9:01am. This is your first LSAT question.
Will you answer it in less than 60 seconds?
Will you eliminate three answer choices without even looking at the question?
You will, if you take a Get Prepped class—the most affordable LSAT prep classes.

Did you select the correct answer? (The correct answer is at the end of this page.)

Just as important, how long did it take you?

If you spent more than 84 seconds, you are going too slow.

Once you learn the Get Prepped techniques, you will answer these questions in 60 seconds, or less.

In fact, we are so confident that you will score higher that we will refund your money if you don't.

 

Slow and Perfect = LSAT Disaster

The other, big test prep companies will teach you how to get correct answers. But they want you to slowly and painstakingly analyze every question.

You only have 35 minutes to answer the 25 questions in the section—an average of 84 seconds per question.

Using the big companies’ methods, you might be able to attempt 17 questions, so the best you can hope for is 17 correct answers.

But when you learn the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™, you will answer all 25 questions, and you can expect 20 correct answers. And correct answers are the only things that matter.

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The Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™

Let’s go back to that LSAT question. Did you instantly eliminate two or three answer choices?

If not, watch this video and learn how.

Once we train you to use this and other Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™, you will regularly eliminate two out of five answer choices without even looking at the question, and often a third choice after briefly examining the question. This leaves two answer choices to analyze. It is much easier to compare two answer choices than five.

My name is Patrick O’Malley, founder and president of Get Prepped. I developed the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™ while working with thousands of students since 1999. I noticed that students worked hard to learn the "conventional” techniques taught by big prep companies, but then often had to ignore those techniques in order to make it through the test.

So, why bother learning their techniques that will only slow you down?

Their Conventional (but too slow) Technique: The Linear-Dissection Analysis

Conventional prep companies teach you to answer LSAT questions this way:

1. Read the information in the opening paragraph; (15-30 seconds)
2. Read the question; (15 seconds)
3. Select one (from among dozens) of obscure analytic frameworks; (15 seconds)
4. Analyze the information using the analytic framework; (30 seconds-2 minutes)
5. Decide what the answer choice should contain; (15 seconds)
6. Select the answer choice that most closely matches the analysis. (30 seconds)
   
   Time required to answer one question: 2 to 3.75 minutes.

So, how many questions would you answer in 35 minutes?

Only 17. But only if you spent 2 minutes per question. Assuming you get all of them right (which is unlikely, because only one test taker in thousand gets a perfect score), you still missed the eight questions you did not reach.

You will always run out of time before you reach all the questions. That’s the price you pay when you use their techniques that aim for perfection, at the expense of speed.

How to Get More Right Answers by Speeding Up

Odd as this sounds, you do not want perfection. A perfect LSAT score is a noble but unrealistic goal. Only one in a thousand LSAT takers get a perfect score; virtually all takers miss at least 10% of the questions. Yet, by teaching the linear-dissection approach, other companies force students to overanalyze, to strive for unattainable perfection.

When you use Get Prepped’s Answer Elimination Techniques™, what can you expect?

1. Eliminate two answer choices before you even read the opening paragraph; (15 seconds)
2. Skim the opening paragraph to eliminate a third answer choice; (15 seconds)
3. Reverse engineer the remaining two answer choices and select one, with a 80-90% probability of being correct (45 seconds).

Total time required to answer the question: 1 to 1.25 minutes.

In about one minute, you have the answer. It will be correct 80-90% of the time. You will answer all 25 questions, and get 20 right.

Here’s the “Aha!” moment that I want you to experience: Use the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™ to eliminate some answer choices before you do the hard work. It saves time and lowers the odds of making mistakes.

Do the easy eliminating first, then do the difficult analysis (but only if you need to.)

You probably already know that eliminating answers is a good strategy. Consider this simple example. How would you answer this math question, without using a calculator? (Don't worry, there are no math questions on the LSAT.)

What is the cube root of 4913?
(A) 9
(B) 17
(C) 19
(D) 22
(E) 51

Would you use longhand multiplication to calculate the cube root of 4913?

Of course not.

Instead, you would glance at the answer choices and quickly eliminate (A) for being too small, and (E) for being too large. You might then eliminate (D) because it is an even number; it can't be the cube root of an odd number. Then all you would have to do is figure out which number—17 or 19—ends in a 3 when cubed.

Other companies tell you to work harder—to do the longhand math calculations.
Get Prepped tells you to work smarter—to use the answer choices to reverse engineer the question.

By now, you understand that you should eliminate answers. But do you know how to eliminate answers? Do you know the one word that appears in 8% of logical reasoning answer choices that automatically eliminates that answer choice? Get Prepped grads do, and they enjoy higher LSAT scores—we guarantee it.

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The Get Prepped Higher Score Guarantee – the Most Comprehensive in the Industry

Our methods work. Our students get higher scores. That’s why we guarantee that you will score higher. When you register for a Get Prepped class, you obligate us to improve your score.

So here’s your no-risk guarantee:
You will score higher, or you don’t pay.

Here's the "fine print:" Come to class. Do the work. You will score higher, or you don’t pay.

Answers to the questions you are probably asking yourself right about now:

Can you explain the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™ in more detail?

With the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™, you consider the answer choices as a fundamental step in the answering process, not as the final step. This is a simple, efficient, and powerful approach, and it also makes more sense.

Use the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™ and eliminate two out of five answer choices without even looking at the question. For example, there is one word found in 8% of logical reasoning answer choices. When you see it, you can eliminate that answer choice.

Now, don’t get carried away. You will have a big head start, but you still need to analyze the questions. We also show you how to do that—but with easier analytic frameworks than other companies teach.

It makes no sense to work too hard to dissect questions, when all you need to do is find the correct answer choice hidden among the four incorrect answer choices. Do this just 90% of the time and you get an Ivy-league LSAT score.

Are the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™ the only difference between Get Prepped and other test prep companies?

No, it’s just the most interesting and fun to write about.

Here are a few other major differences:

1. We have smaller classes—never more than 12 students per class.
2. Our teachers have aced the LSAT—our typical teacher scored 97th percentile or better on a real LSAT, unlike other companies, their teachers may have never taken a real LSAT.
3. Our teachers are law students or law school grads—at other companies, their teachers may have never even taken a real LSAT.
4. We teach the LSAT exclusively—we don’t misapply the techniques that work for other standardized tests, but that don't work well for the LSAT.
5. Our classes are held on weekends during the day so you can concentrate—other companies teach on weekdays, and at night, when you are least able to absorb complex new information.
6. Our classes are less expensive than other test prep companies. (I don’t know why. We hire better instructors, we pay them better, we have smaller classes, yet we still make a living. Maybe those companies charge too much because they are bloated and inefficient, just like their LSAT techniques.)

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Why Don’t Other Companies Teach the Answer Elimination Techniques?

I honestly don’t know. But I have three theories. One is innocent, two are not.

First, the innocent reason. As a teacher, I know how intellectually satisfying it is to break an argument into component parts. It is fun to roll up my sleeves and hammer at an LSAT question until I solve it. The individuals who wrote the courses for other prep companies get the same intellectual satisfaction. As teachers, they want to share it.

On one level, we can forgive their desire to share, it is edifying, but it does not ultimately help the student score higher.

There are also darker motivations.

The second, not-so-innocent reason—creating the perception of value by introducing complexity.

The individuals who market LSAT courses are very smart. They know students want “the good stuff.” One way to create the perception of value is to teach students intellectually challenging, complex techniques. Students walk out of the class saying, “Wow, I learned a really neat, complex technique.”

It won’t be until much later that the student realizes, “Hey, that technique didn’t actually help me on the LSAT.”

The third, not-so-innocent reason—creating the perception of value by padding the class hours.

Up until just a few years ago, the longest LSAT prep courses lasted 38 hours. New companies—trying to impress students and gain market share—began offering 60-, 80-, and even 100-hour classes! (The LSAT did not get more difficult during this time, it actually is easier to prep for than it used to be.) These new companies needed to fill the extra class hours, but how? One way—teach complex and obscure techniques that require dozens of extra hours of class time.

Students now think they are getting twice as much value. They learn intellectually challenging and complex techniques (which will ultimately prove useless), and they get twice as many class hours (which are only needed to teach the unnecessary techniques).

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Don’t students who take classes with other companies do fine?

Yes. Most of their students ultimately manage, and some even do very well, but only by ignoring much of what they were taught.

Eventually, their students realize that a strict application of the linear-dissection analysis and the other complex techniques is simply not practical. Their students ignore the techniques, so as to have time to answer all of the questions.

We often speak to frustrated students fleeing other companies. These unfortunate students took their instructors at face value and tried to literally apply all the techniques. They can’t understand why they aren’t improving, even with all their new, complex analytical skills. They get frustrated. Then they call us.

Avoid the frustration. Save your time. Save your money. Take a Get Prepped class and get a higher score—we guarantee it.

Can you show me more examples of the Get Prepped Answer Elimination Techniques™?

Sure. Watch this video. It shows a technique you can use on the first question of most games. You will get the right answer 100% of the time, in under 30 seconds. Want even more? Get 7 additional video lessons for free.

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Patrick O'Malley
Founder and President of Get Prepped

(The correct answer choice is E.)