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I just published 5 books in print on LSAT and law school admissions, all set to the lowest price Amazon will let me enter.

Amazon sets a minimum list price based on page count and printing cost, so I just typed in that number.

Sharing these in print instead of a PDF because free PDFs sit unopened in a Downloads folder but in my experience people are more likely to actually read and use a print book.

(If enough people want PDF versions, comment or DM me and I'll figure something out.)

Includes the 25th, median, and 75th LSAT and GPA for the top 50 law schools.

Save it and target the 75th, that's where the scholarship money starts.

Want help hitting the 75th? Download my free LSAT cheat sheet here.

The test-taker median is about 152. The T14 median is about 172. Those 20 points are mostly pattern recognition, and almost nobody teaches the patterns.

So I mapped the whole LSAT into 10 slides. Structure and scoring. Logical Reasoning, which is 2/3 of your score. Conditional logic. The 15 flaw patterns. All 8 answer traps. Reading Comp and the V-A-E notes. Real pacing benchmarks. And the review method that moves scores once drilling stops working.

One update is in there too. Starting August 2026 you take the multiple choice in person at a Prometric center, on a new on-screen interface. Scoring didn't change.

Save this so it's on your phone when you study.

I've been coaching the LSAT since 2005. My free LSAT cheat sheet lays out every flaw and trap the test repeats. Download the free LSAT cheat sheet PDF at https://www.unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet

Registration for any LSAT test date closes about 6 weeks before test day.

Remaining 2026-2027 schedule (US/Canada), with each registration deadline:

• Sep 9-12 (registration deadline was Jul 28)
• Oct 7-10 (register by Aug 27)
• Nov 11-14 (register by Oct 1)
• Jan 13-16 (register by Dec 1)
• Feb 12-13 (register by Dec 29)
• Apr 8-10 (register by Feb 25)
• Jun 9-12 (register by Apr 29)

Scores come out about 3 weeks after each testing window.

2 things changed this testing year:

1. As of the August 2026 test, the LSAT is in person only, at Prometric centers (rare exceptions).
2. The on-screen interface changed.

So pick a date, pick a backup 2 months after it, and check the registration deadline before anything else. Miss your window and the next one is still good for this cycle at plenty of schools.

Free LSAT cheat sheet PDF: unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet

The test-taker median is about 152. The T14 median is about 172. Those 20 points are mostly pattern recognition, and almost nobody teaches the patterns.

So I mapped the whole LSAT into 10 slides. Structure and scoring. Logical Reasoning, which is 2/3 of your score. Conditional logic. The 15 flaw patterns. All 8 answer traps. Reading Comp and the V-A-E notes. Real pacing benchmarks. And the review method that moves scores once drilling stops working.

One update is in there too. Starting August 2026 you take the multiple choice in person at a Prometric center, on a new on-screen interface. Scoring didn't change.

Save this so it's on your phone when you study.

I've been coaching the LSAT since 2005. My free LSAT cheat sheet lays out every flaw and trap the test repeats. Download the free LSAT cheat sheet PDF at https://www.unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet

I put together the LSAT and GPA data and the admit rate for the top 50 law schools. This is all straight from the 2025 ABA 509 filings.

The school ranked 50th still has a 164 median.

The number you control most is the LSAT. Chances are your GPA is mostly locked in, but you still have room to improve your LSAT score.

If you're looking for help with your LSAT prep, I've put together a free cheat sheet PDF that you can download here: https://www.unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet

Three more points on the LSAT gets you above the median at 23 more schools. Above the median is where merit money starts.

From a 152 to a 164, you clear 119 school medians. The low 150s to mid 160s is the steepest part of the scale, and the part you can still change.

And the money's really in the 160s. Grant aid peaks near 9/10 students at the 165 to 169 schools, then falls at the top, because the T14 don’t need to buy your score.

The sticker price on a law degree goes past $250,000. Your GPA may be already locked in, but you've still got time and room to boost your LSAT score and get more scholarship money.

If you're looking for help with your LSAT prep, I've put together a free cheat sheet PDF that you can download here: https://www.unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet

Columbia sends 78.4% of its graduating class to Big Law. Yale hires 23.2% into federal clerkships. Same tier, completely different outcomes.

I pulled every T14 school's LSAT 25th, median, and 75th, plus GPA, admit rate, first-time bar pass, Big Law, and federal clerkships.

Georgetown's 25th percentile LSAT is 166, the lowest in the group.

If you're looking for help with your LSAT prep, I've put together a free cheat sheet PDF that you can download here: https://www.unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet

Includes the 25th, median, and 75th LSAT, along with median GPA for 2025.

Save it and target the 75th, that's where the scholarship money starts.

Want help hitting the 75th? Download my free LSAT cheat sheet here.

Most students plateau on Logical Reasoning because they're reading the argument to understand it.

Top scorers read it to attack it.

Three questions, asked in order. Conclusion. Support. Gap.

Then identify the question type. Then eliminate the traps.

What's in this post:

- The 4 question families and what each one wants

- The signal words the test uses to hand you the conclusion

- Conditional logic, the two valid moves

- The 8 famous flaws

- The 8 wrong-answer traps

- A worked example with the system running

Save this. Pull it back up next time you sit down to drill.

Get the full LSAT cheat sheet here.

Reading Comp wrecks more LSAT scores than any other section because nobody teaches it as a system.

Here's the one I run with every student:

- The 3-step system top scorers use on every passage.

- The 4 shapes every LSAT passage falls into.

- The signal words that tell you exactly what's coming next.

- The 5 trap answers the test runs on repeat.

- A worked example, plus a sample question with the traps decoded.

Save this cheat sheet. Use it on a passage tonight. You'll know inside five minutes whether it's working.

Want the deeper version? The full LSAT cheat sheet is free here. Same system, more depth, save it to your phone.

Drilling doesn't build scores. Reviewing does.

Most students drill 3× what they should and review 1/10th of that. Score plateaus are typically review failures.

The protocol I run with every coaching client:

— The Socratic Review Method (3 questions on every wrong answer)

— The two test-maker traps every miss hides: what lured you toward the wrong answer, and what pushed you from the right one

— The wrong-answer patterns every RC passage and LR question runs on you

If your drill volume is high and your score isn't moving, the approach is the problem.

Want the full version as a printable reference? Free LSAT cheat sheet here.

Your LSAT score is stuck. Most students fix the wrong thing.

Logical Reasoning is two-thirds of your scaled score. If your LR section is a mess, you don't need a new study schedule. You need a diagnostic.

Where you start depends on where you're stuck.

Below 18/25 right on LR?

Drill the core four: Flaw, Necessary Assumption, Weaken, Strengthen. They cover roughly half of all LR questions. Everything else can wait.

Already hitting the 20s? Different problem. You're not building foundation, you're patching specific leaks. Hard paradoxes (Q19–26), NA missing-link vs. objection splits, parallel two-good-answer traps.

The shift nobody teaches: review is the lever. Most students drill 3x what they should and review 1/10th. Plateaus are review failures, not content failures.

Grab the full LSAT cheat sheet, every pattern, type, and trap in one PDF:

Free download here.

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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