Kaplan LSAT 180

by Kaplan Inc. and Kaplan Test Prep

Kaplan presents the toughest practice questions, strongest strategies, and proven high-scoring techniques to give students the edge on the Law School Admission Test. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743265297
• ISBN13: 9780743265294
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Kaplan
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Extra Material for Studying

LSAT 180 is interesting in that it is supposed to be more difficult than regular LSAT questions but is also intended to help improve your LSAT taking-skills. The questions are difficult but all they aren't perfect. The Logic Games seem reasonably similar to LSAT games, the main difference being the amount of space they take up on the page. The Logical Reasoning questions felt pretty far afield from real test questions. Finally Reading Comprehension was more similar to a real RC section than the LR questions but not quite as close as the games. Games are the real winner in this book. I wouldn't recommend this book for regular LSAT studying but it's not a bad idea if you run out of regular LSAT material.

preparing for LSAT

LSAT 180 is an alright book. It is certainly helpful in preparation for the LSAT; however, there is a dozen of mistakes in the book. Even though the majority of them are simply typos, there are 4-5 mistakes that interfere with the understanding of explanations. Since I'm not sure if there are LSAT books free of typos, I would recommend to consider Kaplan LSAT 180 anyway.

Pretty Good, Definetly a Good Buy

I use to be a purist demanding only real LSAT questions but I went thru almost all the lsat tests and became a little too familiar with the questions. I heard from some people that scored over 170 that they used this book and recommended it so I decided to give it a try. After using the PS Bibles that worked wonders I needed a book to get me over my plateau I couldn't seem to break. People gripe over the spelling mistakes. In this edition I noticed maybe 2, and they were in the intro not the actual problems. I shrugged my shoulders, rolled my eyes, and got over it. The questions are quite similar to the LSAT. I literally could not tell a difference. I have also read Nova's Master the Lsat, a good book but you could definetly see there was a difference in the style (structure and set up) of questions. LR: Most are not mind-numbingly hard. IMHO, I would ignore the time limits on these questions. Better to pick the questions apart and figure out the structure to really let it sink in. Better to use these as practice and leave the LSAT tests for timed sessions. Explantions are pretty good. LG: Timed or just as practice, these are very tricky. The sections get progressively harder from chapters called "Time Warps" to the hardest, merely labeled "Huh..?" LR: Gives good tips. Just as LG this also gets harder by the section from "Blinded by Science" to "Philosopher's Corner". There are no basics in this book. It assumes you know your formal logic,sufficent/necessary clauses, and a solid grasp on games. I would recommend the PS Bibles first and then this book once you get into the 160's score level on practice tests.

Boosted my score by 10-15 points

This book is worth the money. True - there are 1 or 2 typos. True - these aren't actual questions. Still, the questions are pretty much indistinguishable from actual LSAT questions because they use the same method to make them. This book will teach you the best ways to both understand the questions and then answer them efficiently. Most importantly, though, the difficulty of the book hits you hard and it is extremely painful. The benefit is that afterwards, taking practice tests and the actual test feels easy. I went from missing 4 or 5 logical reasoning questions on each logical reasoning section of actual practice tests to missing 0-1 on each section. The logic games section was just flat out painful, but made taking the actual games section on the test much easier. This book isn't just for people who want a 180. I was getting low 160s on practice tests before I did this book, and afterwards I started getting mid 170s.