The reviews here are a couple of years old so, as a recent Kaplan LSAT prep course taker, I thought I'd add my $0.02. As I read the negative reviews I found myself nodding my head in agreement.

Kaplan has reduced the class time: the teacher remarked that this was a recent development. My classes met for two hours once a week, for 8 weeks (plus 3 practice tests, so there were 11 sessions). The teacher said that the once-a-week classes used to be three hours.

Initially, I was very impressed with Kaplan. The staff was super-nice and eager to please. The Kaplan student is given many resources: classroom work, homework, online reviews and quizzes, supplemental workshops, and a library where you can view the lectures on tape and where you can take practice LSATs and have them instantly scored.

But Kaplan did not improve my score. That's the bottom line. What irked me the most is Kaplan's hypocrisy over its claims to improve your performance on the Logic Games Section. The mantra is that logic games are the most dreaded but most coachable part of the test, but the logic games Kaplan will have you do are inadequate; they just do not reflect the difficulty of the current crop of games. I attended both supplemental logic game workshops (three hours apiece), but on test day the logic games were virtually as mysterious to me as they were on day 1.

If you ask me, the LSAT is a reading comprehension test. Oh, to be sure, there is just one section called "Reading Comprehension." But half the test, "Logical Reasoning," is really just advanced reading comprehension. Reading is a life skill that cannot be taught in a few weeks. If you are a good reader, you should do quite respectably on a practice test--it is the logic games which motivated me to seek out an LSAT prep course. Kaplan failed to teach me how to do the games quickly.





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