LSAT Disclosed Analytical Reasoning Section (AR Field Study)

Normally, the only place to get LSAT prep material is within an LSAT Preptest. You can find these preptests on LSAC Lawhub.

There is one exception, and if you didn’t take part you probably won’t be able to ever access these, but I’d like to write about it for completeness. The “Disclosed Analytical Reasoning Section” is an official LSAT logic games section.

In fall 2022, LSAC held the AR Field Study. This was a study designed to test a potential new format for LSAT Logic Games. As inducement to get people to sign up, LSAC offered some practice for existing logic games. Anyone who took part in the LR field study also took one section of logic games in the current format.

Unusually for LSAC, they also disclosed this section to students who took the AR field study. Disclosure of LSAC materials since the pandemic and LSAT-Flex has been extremely rare, only tests 90, 91, 92 and 93 have been released. So this set of disclosed games marks the 5th set of disclosed games released since 2019.

Style of the Disclosed Analytical Reasoning Section

The Disclosed Analytical Reasoning Section has the same format as existing logic games, so there is nothing unusual about the games within. I’ve spoken with students who received a disclosed section, and found out:

• The games were last used in August 2020
• The games were similar in style to existing types
• Two of the games had some of the twists that are hallmarks of recent LSAT logic games
• These twists, however, did not represent a fundamentally new type of game. Rather, they were shifts on existing game types

Will LSAC Release This Section to the Public?

LSAC has so far given no indication of a wider released of the disclosed analytical reasoning section. They may release it as part of future preptest disclosures, or they may not. At present, anyone who did the AR field study has a small advantage in that they have access to more recent LG material than other students.

However, there are 95+ official LSAT preptests available, and the concepts used in the Disclosed Analytical Reasoning Section have been used in other games. So as long as you still have fresh practice tests available, you can study effectively using those.