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Most prelaw students study Reading Comp the wrong way. They worry about the topic of each passage. The topic doesn't matter. The structure does.

Every modern LSAT Reading Comp passage fits one of 7 patterns. I tagged 400 by hand to confirm it.

The 7:

- Challenge Position (most common overall)
- Highlight Noteworthy (#1 humanities)
- Old/New (#1 science)
- Problem/Solution (#1 law)
- Present Debate
- Answer Question
- Theme/Examples

Spot the pattern in paragraph 1. Skim everything that isn't a big idea for that pattern. Main Point questions stop being guesswork.

Save this for your next study session. Grab the full cheat sheet here.

I went from 152 to 175 on the LSAT. The move that closed the gap most:

Stop reading flaws. Start naming them.

Most students study Logical Reasoning flaws by passively reading examples. Then they hit a real question, freeze, and pick the trap.

What works: name the flaw before you look at the choices. Pre-phrase. Then eliminate.

You can't pre-phrase a pattern you can't name. So this carousel is every flaw the LSAT recycles. 15 patterns, 5 families, with one-line tells you can drill against.

~40% of every test depends on this.

Save it. On your next drill set, cover the choices and name the flaw out loud before you uncover them. Track what you miss.

Full cheat sheet (15 flaws + 8 answer traps + 13 question types with approaches) here.

AI just scored a perfect 180 on the LSAT. Last month.

A researcher ran the April 2025 official test through 8 reasoning models. Five of six top models scored above 97%. One got every question right.

But here's the part that should change how you study:

Turn off the AI's "thinking" step and Logical Reasoning collapses. Reading Comp barely moves.

It's not about how fast you read, it's about how tightly you reason.

Inside: the 2 specific drills the AI fell for (and most test-takers do too), plus the 8 wrong-answer patterns every LR question hides behind.

Get your free LSAT cheat sheet here.

You can drill 50 PTs and still plateau at 165 if you don't know what's actually being tested.

Most LSAT prep teaches the content. Almost none teaches the test.

Here's the whole exam in 10 slides:

— 4-section structure and how the curve actually works (one missed question at the top of the curve costs 3× what it costs at the bottom)

— All 13 LR question types, sorted into 3 families

— The conditional + quantifier logic that powers ~30–40% of LR

— The flaw catalog and the answer-trap patterns that decide every elimination

— The 4 things to track while reading every RC passage

— Timing benchmarks per section, plus the rules nobody teaches

— What separates a 165 from a 175 (it isn't more drilling)

Save it. Refer back when you study.

The full LSAT cheat sheet is too big for a single post, so the above images are just a sample.

But you can get the full LSAT cheat sheet with every conditional indicator, every flaw, every trap, every timing rule in one PDF for free HERE.

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I scored a 152 on my first LSAT.

That's the bottom 50th percentile. I had no idea what I was doing: reading every word, panicking on conditional logic, trying to memorize answer types I didn't understand.

A years late I scored a 175.

Everything I had to figure out the hard way is in this carousel. Save it. Print it. Tape it to your wall. If your score has been stuck for weeks, slide 8 is probably why.

Printable PDF version of this LSAT cheat sheet here.