Free explanations for LSAT preptests. These explanations cover logic games, logical reasoning and reading comprehension. There are explanations for both the right answers and wrong answers.
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Free Explanations Part 1: LSAT Preptests 60-78
Free Explanations Part 2: LSAT Preptests 29-39
You can also get pdf versions of the LSAT explanations.
FAQ
Where are tests 39-59?
I haven’t written them yet. 39-61 is 23 sets of explanations. Each set is about 30,000 words, so the gap is 700,000 words.
In 2011, I wrote explanations for preptests 19-38. Then in 2012, I wrote explanations for preptest 68 onwards. In 2013 I extended this backwards to LSAT preptest 62.
So there’s currently a gap in explanations. I haven’t written anything for 39-61. I hope to do this eventually, starting with 52-61. But I have no timeline for this, as LSAT explanations take quite a while to write.
How often do you release new tests?
I usually release the new LSAT explanations about 1-2 weeks after the test comes out. Older tests don’t follow a set pattern – explanations take a while to write.
What are you working on right now?
I’ve been working on the LSAT mastery seminars.
Next, I’m going to go through tests 79 and 80 and record myself doing them timed without having seen them before. That’s why new explanations are on hold – I need to preserve the fresh material.
Once those videos are done, I’ll be making explantions for 78-80, and returning to a regular posting schedule.
After that, I should have time to proofread my past explanations for 19-28. It’s possible those will be up in 2017. However, I wouldn’t expect them anytime soon. If you really want a copy now, LSAT Blog or Cambridge LSAT has them on sale. I haven’t sold them on my site because I haven’t updated them to my current format and would rather do that first.
52-61 are next on the list after 19-28, but I wouldn’t expect those in 2017 – explanations take a while!
Great Job Buddy… TLS Represent!
Hello,
Just out of curiousity, how ofter do you add a new prep test explanation to this page? Im sure its quite an undertaking, but are you going to continue to move backwards?
Thanks,
It varies. I’ve written 19-38. But I’m proofreading 19-28 right now, and am in the process of posting 29-38. Those should all hopefully be up before December.
After that I’ll write new ones, which takes a while.
Thank you for uploading these! I have also bought your books, and already see the progress. I was also wondering how long you were planning on keeping these explanations online for. thanks.
Forever. They’ll always be free. I’m planning to put more up soon too.
You are an excellent human being. Thanks for the prose and guaranteed freedom.
Hi Graeme,
Are you planning to put up any more explanations before the December 2014 lsat?
Hi Carol,
Graeme is currently working on explanations for the rest of the PTs, but they won’t all be up before the December 2014 LSAT (as you can see in the comments above,19-38 are almost ready).
Hi. I had a question, the 29-38 explanations will be up by end of November right?
Thanks!!!
Hi Boris,
The explanations for Prep Tests 29-38 are almost ready – they should be up within the next couple of weeks!
Hi! Any update on when 29-38 will be up?
Also, thanks so much for working to make this type of crucial information accessible across class lines!
They’re up now. Glad you like them :)
Hi Graeme, great job! I hope you don’t mind, but I featured you on the site @thehatchling.net
Awesome, thanks! Do you run that site?
Will you have the explanations for 74 soon?
Hi Jessica – Yes, explanations for PT 74 will be up soon. Graeme started working on them the moment the December LSAT was officially released!
Hi. I had a question. Any update on when 19-28 explanations will be out?
Thanks :)
Thank you!
Hi Grame,
Thank you so much for putting up the explanations. I was wondering on the status of the explanations for 19-28. Any chance they’ll be put up this month or the next (possibly before the June Lsat)? Please let me know.
Thanks!
Could be a while, I’m working on another project first. I do have a version for sale on LSAT Blog and Cambridge LSAT, so you could buy them in PDF there.
The reason I haven’t posted them here is that they were an early effort and I need to proofread them again + update them before making the free version. It takes a lot of work posting them on the site so I want to make sure they’re the final version first.
I really appreciate this. Thank you.
Thanks :) Glad to help!
Hi Graeme
I used to completed my tertiary education almost twenty years ago. Most of the people in my age group will think about their retirement plan.
Instead, I have currently determined to further my study in legal aspect because what I found only by enhancing my legal knowledge can enable me to better served for several not-for-profit organizations. I hope I could help to minimizing its operational costs in terms of legal charges/ consultancy fee and protect them from encountering any unexpectedly legal matters.
I have to admitted that it is rather tough for me to study and fully understand the logical contents of the LSAT. But with your help, I believe I can make it.
Therefore, I deeply appreciate your effort in explaining the essence of those prior tests.
Thank you very much
Jennie
That’s great Jennie – never stop learning :) I hope you’re able to help others with legal knowledge. Glad my site’s helped.
I really like your explainations. Where can i purchase your explanations for any or all of PT 39-61?
I haven’t written them yet unfortunately. I’m working on 52-61 right now, but it will take a while. My explanations for 75 will be out in early July after the test is released.
Your explanations are amazing. Really appreciate it!!!!
Thanks for your explanations, they’re great! I’m currently taking Testmasters but still am having difficulty with the strengthening questions. Do you have any tips for that at all?
1. Identify the reasoning and conclusion
2. Ask “how could this be wrong?” This will let you identify the flaw. (known as prephrasing)
3. Look for an answer that helps fix the flaw. (Note that it might not match your prephrase. There are sometimes multiple flaws.
4. Interpret vague answers at their weakest. E.g. if an answer says “Some americans like pizza” assume it refers to one guy in Arkansas. If that weak version *still* strengthens the argument then it’s the right answer.
Hi, thanks for the explanations! They are really helpful.
Can I ask whether you are still going to upload the explanations for 19-28?
Did you say you sell them in Cambridge LSAT? Which explanations is yours at Cambridge LSAT?
Actually, they are pretty old tests, I know it’s still worth doing, but do you think it is necessary to do those tests?
(If not-if it’s just for extra practice,I’m thinking to just focus on recent ones…)
Thanks and looking for your explanations from 39-61 as well :)
I will eventually. Working on another project for the site right now. I do have a version of them on sale at Cambridge, I think. I know LSAT Blog sells my 19-28 explanations. I need to proofread/format them, which is why they’re not up here yet.
The tests are still useful. Three main uses:
1. Extra sections to use for five section practice tests.
2. Drilling of specific question types, or extra material for RC
3. Extra PTs for those who ran through the rest and need timed material. (It’ll be a bit off, but still useful)
4. Logic games. The newer LSATs have been including “unusual” games. Doing some of the older games will get you used to games that use the same principles but have the same format.
Hi, thanks for the reply!
Just want to double check…so the explanations for 19-28 at Cambridge LSAT is not yours right?
Since you write explanations…do you notice any tendency changes in LG, RC, and LR such as since PT 50?
I feel like LR becomes trickier…
Thanks,
They’re mine at Cambridge, I checked. The author is listed.
LG has started having less upfront deductions, and increasing just tests your ability to organize and remember the rules. Clear diagams are a must.
There are changes in LR and RC, but I can’t say exactly what they are. They’re too subtle for me to put words to.
Hi Graeme,
I have just recently found your site and I am so glad I did. I’ve gone through the recommended studying for the Lawschooli schedule for the Oct. test and am finding myself dropping. Not sure if it is my attention, lack of focus, or nervousness, but your site is helping me dig back up. Your work dovetails so nicely with Mike Kim’s LSAT Trainer, I think you are both brilliant. And I am so glad you are using your powers for good! So, thank you.
Have a great day,
Caryn
I always knew about your website but I never really read the explanations. Today I opened an explanation on preptest 73 for one question and I already learned something I haven’t learned from all the other companies over the year that I have been studying for the lsat, which is probably going to save me another minute on the test. You are amazing and a life saver, continue doing what you do!!!
That’s so great, thank you :)
I have a general question. Do you suggest we go through all the answer choices? how did you do it? I have been studying since June 2014 and I suck horribly with timing. People tell me it’s a waste of time going through all the answer choices, but I have grown the habit of reading all the answer choices before picking the right one (I work from wrong-to-right). My prep-course, the books, and the blogs I read say that we need to read all the answer choices…isn’t this time consuming especially when you know you have the right answer?
Roya:
This is the kind of test you have to develop a certain kind of natural instinct for the test. If I run into a choice that my gut feeling tells me is the right answer I immediately go for it and move on. Imagine all the tremendous precious seconds you can gain by skipping through the rest of the answer choices and moving on to the next questions. These seconds quickly add up over the length of the test, giving you that life saving time you need to kill and attack the harder, much lengthier questions. What makes the test so hard is not necessarily so much the content, but really the pressed timing combined with the large scope of the exam. If you develop a natural instinct for picking the right answer, you will immediately recognize which answer choices are correct and which ones are traps. In many types of questions, such as Flaw and Assumption Type questions, it is worth to take a brief 4 seconds to prephrase a possible answer choice in your mind before you move on to the choices. Many times, you save yourself a great deal of time by prephrasing an answer to these types of questions rather than going right ahead to the choices (blindly) and easily being fooled by the meticulously engineered choices crafted by the test makers and losing a great deal of valuable time in the process.
Graeme-I am very confused by question 20 of RC on prep test 72. I chose answer E because it literally says almost the exact same thing in lines 38-41. I get why C is correct but I do not understand why E is wrong? Thanks.
LRVW
great！thank you so much
Thank you for posting test prep 77, you have very insightful comments.
Thank you for being such an amazing person
Thanks! Glad the explanations are helpful :)
Hey man, how many sessions of tutoring do you recommend to get a good benefit? I perform self-study and would like to utilize 1-2 sessions to help with some holes in my studying. Thank you!
1-2 sessions is probably a good amount for most people. A lot depends on up how well you’re able to identify problem areas up front.
With more typical tutors that you work with multiple times per week, they can really get to know a student over time. But since I just do a small number of sessions, more depends on whether students can self assess what areas they should ask me about. I know about a lot of topics, but lessons are most effective if you’re able to tell me which topics are important in your case.
I’ve already taken the lsat and finished 1L. Was looking up sites to share for a friend who was about to start the process and found this.
I just wanted to say thanks for doing this. You will be helping even the level playing for many people who are talented and want to attend law school but cannot afford the expensive prep courses. Explanations are how I got better at the lsat as well.
Hello,
Will you be uploading a review on June 2016 PT by any chance?
Thank you for all your hard work and efforts on all of these explanation!
At some point. Had a major pause due to moving apartments + having to organize some backend stuff. I’m going to be working on both June and September shortly.
Hello. Could you tell me how long are the videos included in LSAT Course Beta? I’m taking September LSAT, and I’m wondering if I can finish everything if I start now.
There are about 28 hours of video spread out over 12 lessons, which you can definitely finish in the three weeks before the 24th. Since you’ve already done some prep, you can also choose to focus on only those videos where you require the most additional review, as each lesson page contains a clear description of the video’s content.
You will also have access to the course for eight months by default, so in the event that you need to postpone your test date, you’ll still be able to access the videos and course content.
Hi, when do you usually post new explanations?
I’m taking Sept. one, are you gonna post explanations for PT 78 before the test date?
Really like your explanations :)
Usually a couple weeks after the PT is released. However, this cycle I’ve had a backlog of other work and am behind on explanations. I’m hoping to have 78, 79 and 80 up by the end of January.
Thank you so much for this!
Graeme,
BRUH, you da MAN! Seriously, thank you seems wholly inadequate to express how helpful your explanations are. Quick question though, (in my Tyrone Biggums voice!) “Is this the 5pm free PT 78 explanations giveaway?!” :-) Or, in my 401 K voice, when do you anticipate posting the explanations for PT 78?
100x thanks!
-Alicia
Hopefully fairly soon. I had a delay over the summer. Working on 78 and 79 now. No guarantee it will be before the Dec test date unfortunately.
Thanks for these!!!
I would just like to say, I respect your work here. I appreciate all the material that you put out here to help us, anticipating law students. May grace repay you for your kindness. Thank you.
Hey Graeme,
Just wanted to send my regards and tell you how much I appreciate what you’re doing with LSAT Hacks. The explanations on the site have helped me a lot.
You clearly have a knack for teaching and structuring information in a way that is most palatable to students. That is a true gift my friend. Many people are intelligent but not many people have a natural and intimate understanding of how people learn.
Just wanted to send my thanks and let you know you’re doing great stuff on here, man. Success is going to follow you down any path you travel.
I found the LSAT hack site just a few days before I took the LSAT in September (2016). I was disappointed because I knew that these resources would help raise my score. I received my September score and was disappointed. I spent the next 4 weeks studying for the December LSAT using Graeme’s tips and raised my score 10 points! I got a 167 and am receiving emails from the top law schools in the country. I used his posts, YouTube videos, and free webinar. I’m so thankful I found Graeme’s resources. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have known what to do to raise my score and now my options are limitless.
Hi, when would the explanations for exams 1-37 be uploaded?
In the case of PT’s 29-38, they’re already uploaded. You can find them just before the FAQ on this page.
As for the explanations for PT’s 1-28, they’re in the works. But, there’s no real timeline for those tests because Graeme is starting with the explanations for the newest tests (78+) and the tests from 52-61 (and explanations do take a long time to write).
Graeme,
It is pretty well known within LSAT’s little sphere that RC is “your thing.” I’ve even wondered if you were the one to suggest the idea of low resolution summaries to 7Sage back in the day. I’m particularly interested in knowing how you tackle comparative passages. Do you give the answer choices a first pass after reading passage A? Or do you read both passages before touching the questions?
I know I’m reaching here expecting a response from you, but I’m really curious on knowing your take.
Yeah, I was. I wrote their original “memory method” article back when I did work for 7sage. They added a citation, I believe.
Actually am not yet sure what I do on comparative. I just did more of them, and started to do better. I *think* what I do is that I approach them almost like a point at issue question. I want to see where passages agree, where they disagree, and where they have no opinions on what the other one says. I do this without reference to the questions – it’s knowledge I want to have beforehand.
Hi I love this page I’ve found it extremely helpful. I’m just wondering if preptest 78 explanations are only available to buy? Is there a free version available yet? Thank you!
Glad to hear that you’ve gotten so much from the site! And yes, a free version of PT78 will be available shortly!
This is really the best expl out there. Right to the point, no nonsense. When I am working on the PTs without your expl, it is so miserable to read any other expl. Keep up the good work!