TestMasters Weekend LSAT Course Syllabus
The TestMasters Weekend LSAT Course consists of four lessons, each of which is four hours in length. Lessons One and Two are taught on Saturday, and Lessons Three and Four are taught on Sunday. A full-length pre-course diagnostic test is available in the members area of our website. Approximately one week prior to the start of the course, students receive a 400-page coursebook that contains LSAT questions, drills, analyses, and explanations, along with a comprehensive homework assignment for students to work through once they have completed the course. Students can use our Online Resource Center to score these diagnostic tests and receive immediate detailed statistical feedback. The following syllabus outlines what is covered in the TestMasters Weekend LSAT Course.
- The LSAT Scoring Scale
- Logical Reasoning
- Reacting to the Stimulus
- Identifying Premises and Conclusions
- The Fifteen Question Types™
- Type One Questions
- Sufficient and Necessary Conditions
- Incorrect Negation™, Incorrect Reversal™, and the Contrapositive
- Diagramming Conditional Statements
- The Unless Formula™
- The Positive and Contrapositive Argument Structures
- Type Seven Questions
- Logic Games
- Establishing the Absolutes and Considering the Possibilities
- The Logical Construct™
- Pure Sequencing
- Basic Linear Setups
- Not Rules™, Blocks, and Dual Options
- Reading Comprehension
- General Introduction
- Categorizing the Passages
- Evaluating the Scholars
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Three Questions
- Cause and Effect Problems
- Type Two, Type 2N, and Type 2S Questions
- The 2N Negation Technique™
- The 2S Justification Technique™
- Formal Logic: Arrow and Venn Diagrams
- Diagramming Statements Containing "Some" and "Most"
- Reading Comprehension
- Science Passages
- Logic Games
- Advanced Linear Setups
- Logic Games
- Pure Grouping
- Double Arrows and Double Not Arrows
- Diagramming "Either/Or" Statements
- Common Grouping Deductions
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Four Questions
- Type Five Questions
- The Good/Bad Test™
- The Conclusion Test™
- Flawed Methods of Reasoning
- Type 4F Questions
- Type 5F Questions
- Reading Comprehension
- History Passages
- Humanities Passages
- The Writing Sample
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Six Questions
- Principle Questions
- Type Eleven Questions
- The Yes/No Test™
- Numbers, Amounts, and Percentages
- Reading Comprehension
- Law Related Passages
- Logic Games
- Master the Possibilities™
- Numerical Distribution