LSAT: 5 Days and Counting!
The most crucial step in applying to law school is acing the LSAT. While it is true that a good score alone will not gain you admission to law school, a bad score will definitely get you rejected. They say that you should spend at least 200 hours studying for the LSAT. This past block has been dedicated solely to studying for this difficult test, which I will take next Saturday.
When I think back to three weeks ago when I had never seen an LSAT question and had no idea what a logic game was, I am astonished at the progress I have made. I’ve improved nearly 15 points in my practice tests, a difference between the 50th and the 90th percentile. The saying: “anything is possible in a block” is very true.
Learning on the Block Plan has prepared me for intense studying like this. I realized that I was too busy to spend a full year studying for this test, so my best option was to take a block and immerse myself completely in preparing for the LSAT, giving this task my undivided attention. It has basically taken over my life. It’s been intense, studying logic for 10 hours a day. Surprisingly, it’s been really fun. Logic games are basically like doing a puzzle, Reading Comprehension is just reading interesting passages critically, and Logical Reasoning is understanding how arguments work.
Now I’m at the final stretch. It’s super scary, but equally exciting. I have 3 more days of intense studying, Friday to relax, and then the test is SATURDAY!
On that note, I’ll leave you with an easy logic game from an old LSAT test that you can try:
A company employee generates a series of five-digit product codes in accordance with the following rules:
The codes use the digits 0,1,2,3,4, and no others.
Each digit occurs exactly once in any code.
The second digit has a value exactly twice that of the first digit.
The value of the third digit is less than the value of the fifth digit.
1. If the last digit of an acceptable product code is 1, it must be true that the
a. First digit is 2
b. Second digit is 0
c. Third digit is 3
d. Fourth digit is 4
e. Fourth digit is 1
2. Which one of the following must be true about any acceptable product code?
a. The digit 1 appears in some position before the digit 2.
b. The digit 1 appears in some position before the digit 3.
c. The digit 2 appears in some position before the digit 3.
d. The digit 3 appears in some position before the digit 0.
e. The digit 4 appears in some position before the digit 3.
3. If the third digit of an acceptable product code is not 0, which one of the following must be true?
a. The second digit of the product code is 2.
b. The third digit of the product code is 3.
c. The fourth digit of the product code is 0.
d. The fifth digit of the product code is 3.
e. The fifth digit of the product code is 1.
4. Any of the following pairs could be the third and fourth digits, respectively, of an acceptable product code, EXCEPT:
a. 0,1
b. 0,3
c. 1,0
d. 3,0
e. 3,4
5. Which one of the following must be true about any acceptable product code?
a. There is exactly one digit between the digit 0 and the digit 1.
b. There is exactly one digit between the digit 1 and the digit 2.
c. There are at most two digits between the digit 1 and the digit 3.
d. There are at most two digits between the digit 2 and the digit 3.
e. There are at most two digits between the digit 2 and the digit 4.
See? Isn’t it so much fun?
Correct Answers: 1) a, 2) c, 3) c, 4) e, 5) e
answer 2 is wrong it’s actually B.
Good try! But the answer to #2 is actually C. If you read the rules carefully, you’ll notice that any acceptable code must either begin with 1,2 or 2,4. From this we know that the digit 2 will always be before the digit 3. Answer B is incorrect because you could have a code 2,4,0,3,1 which complies with all of the rules – but the digit 1 actually appears AFTER 3.