The LSAT has two scored Logical Reasoning sections and one scored Reading Comprehension section, plus one unscored section (LSAC). Logic games were removed in August 2024. So a study schedule now gives about two thirds of your time to Logical Reasoning and one third to Reading Comprehension. This 12 week plan assumes about 20 hours a week, or about 250 hours in total.
You sit four 35 minute sections with a 10 minute break after the second. One of the four is unscored, and you won't know which, so treat every section as if it counts. The highest score is 180. LSAT Argumentative Writing is a separate, unscored essay you take online. Law schools see it, and your score is not released until it is done.
Old study plans (and many used prep books) still set aside weeks for logic games. Skip those. Since the August 2024 change, that time belongs to Logical Reasoning.
| Weeks | Focus | Practice tests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take a timed diagnostic PrepTest. Log every wrong answer by question type. Learn the parts of an argument: premise, conclusion, assumption. | 1 diagnostic |
| 2 to 3 | Logical Reasoning foundations: conditional logic (if, only if, unless), then the most common types: flaw, necessary and sufficient assumption, strengthen, weaken. | None |
| 4 to 5 | The other LR types: inference, parallel reasoning, principle, method of reasoning, paradox. Start Reading Comprehension: one untimed passage a day, mapping each paragraph's role. | 1 at the end of week 5 |
| 6 to 7 | Timed sections. Two LR sections and one RC section a week, with full review. Drill your 3 weakest question types from the log. | 1 a week |
| 8 to 9 | Comparative reading passages and speed. Work on pacing: skip and come back to the hardest questions. | 1 a week |
| 10 | Write one practice Argumentative Writing essay under time. Keep reviewing your wrong-answer log. | 2 |
| 11 | Full test conditions: same time of day as your test, 4 sections, 10 minute break. | 2 |
| 12 | One last PrepTest early in the week, then light review of your log and flashcards. Rest the day before. | 1 |
Review takes longer than the test. For each PrepTest, plan on as much time again to go through every question you got wrong or guessed on, and write down why the right answer is right and why yours was wrong.
Use LSAC's own LawHub for practice tests. They are real past LSATs in the same digital interface as test day.
If you have 8 weeks, see how to study for the LSAT in 2 months. If you work full time, this guide to studying for the LSAT with a full-time job spreads the same work over more weeks. For how long people need overall, see how long to study for the LSAT.
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Try StudyCards AI FreeThis plan uses about 20 hours a week over 12 weeks, or about 250 hours in total. If you can only manage 10 hours a week, stretch the same plan to about 6 months instead of cutting steps.
Four 35 minute sections: two scored Logical Reasoning, one scored Reading Comprehension and one unscored section of either type. Logic games (Analytical Reasoning) were removed from August 2024. LSAT Argumentative Writing is taken separately online.
In week 1, before you study anything. It shows your starting score and which question types cost you the most points, and the rest of the plan is built around that.
LSAC allows 5 attempts within the current reportable score period (since July 2021) and 7 in a lifetime.
Yes. LSAT Argumentative Writing is not scored, but LSAC will not release your score to law schools until you have a completed writing sample on file.
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