Maximize your LSAT ^® prep

It'd be a crime to do anything less than your absolute best in your LSAT prep, so let's take a closer look at the facts to see how The Princeton Review can help you improve your test taking skills.

How do we know our Hyperlearning ^® LSAT course is effective? The average in-course score improvement, for students who took all 6 of the practice tests, is 8 points.

We calculated the improvement from the first to the last in-course practice test, each of which was a previously released LSAT. ¹

But there is important information that you need to consider:

• These are practice test results. They do not reflect students' performance on actual LSATs because, as you know, "past performance does not guarantee future results."
• On average, students who took all 6 practice tests improved more than those who took fewer practice tests. Students who took only 5 practice tests improved by an average of about 6 points and students who took just four practice tests improved by an average of about 5 points.
• Most of our students have NOT taken the actual LSAT before enrolling in our course. There's a good reason for this – a large number of law schools average LSAT scores for applicants who take the test more than once. We do not encourage students to take the actual LSAT until they're confident they can achieve their best score.
• On your first class, you will take a professionally proctored previously-released LSAT. That becomes your starting score. Throughout your Hyperlearning course, you'll have the opportunity to take 5 more previously released tests (6 total). The 8-point in-class score improvement listed above is the difference between the score earned on the first in-class practice test and the score achieved on the last practice exam for students who took all 6 tests.

¹ Data are for the period of approximately October 2008-October 2010.

If you're thinking like a lawyer, some questions should immediately pop into your mind:

• Where did your data come from?
• Is my score impacted by the number of practice tests that I take?

Answer 1 The data above came from more than 9,000 actual Princeton Review student practice test records.

Answer 2 Speaking of effort, there's a powerful correlation between the number of practice tests that you take and how your Princeton Review LSAT practice test score improvements.

Here are a couple more relevant points:

• We use the most recently released LSATs as our practice tests. As the LSAT is not a test that changes drastically from one test administration to the next, we think this gives our students the most helpful practice. Even though, as noted earlier, your performance on in-course practice tests does not guarantee results on test day.
• We understand that it's easier to just hoist an improvement number up the flag pole and wave it around, but to do so would deny us the opportunity to explain smartly and sensibly what these numbers actually mean.

At The Princeton Review, we're proud of our teachers, philosophy, materials, and especially our results, but we're also proud of our ethical standards, thus the especially long discussion about our in-class score improvements.

If you want to get the best score possible then you need to prep BEFORE taking the LSAT, and it's pretty clear that you should prep with The Princeton Review.

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