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So, I- I- I was working with a student
last Tuesday, and they were,

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uh, they were literally mourning the loss
of the Khan Academy LSAT partnership.

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It- it's officially gone, retired.

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And they felt like they'd lost their, you
know, their primary source of free,

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high-quality, official practice questions.

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But, Nora, the- the reality is, LSAC
didn't just throw those materials in the

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garbage.

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They quietly migrated them over to the
LawHub platform.

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Wait, they did?

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Because I remember, oh my god, when I was
studying on my own,

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the panic when you feel like you're
running out of official questions is so real.

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I used to spend hours on Reddit, just
hunting through old forums for,

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like, "fresh" or unused questions.

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If those Khan materials are still alive on
LawHub, that is a massive deal.

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They aren't just alive.

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They're hidden in plain sight.

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If you go into the LawHub app interface,
under their drill library,

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you'll find exactly fourteen Logical
Reasoning Drill Sets and seven Reading

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Comprehension Drill Sets.

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And here is the kicker, Nora.

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That is a cache of one hundred and
sixty-eight practice problems.

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And the vast, vast majority of those one
hundred and sixty-eight questions have

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never appeared in any published PrepTest
before.

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They are completely pristine.

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One hundred and sixty-eight brand-new,
official questions?

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That- that's practically, what, like seven
full sections of Logical Reasoning?

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That is absolute gold for someone trying
to preserve their actual test pool.

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I mean, when you're preparing, you need to
save PrepTests one hundred and one

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through one hundred and fifty-eight for
those clean, timed,

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full-length diagnostics closer to test
day.

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You can't just burn through them early on
to learn the basics.

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Precisely.

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You don't- you don't use your game-day
scrimmages just to practice your,

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uh, your free throws.

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You use these fourteen Logical Reasoning
Drill Sets to learn how to identify

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assumptions, how to weaken an argument,
how to do the basic mechanics.

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Then, when you actually sit down for
PrepTest one hundred and one,

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or one hundred and eight, you aren't
seeing spoiled questions.

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Your diagnostics stay perfectly pristine.

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It completely solves the scarcity crisis
that self-study students face.

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Honestly, I'm a little jealous.

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I- I would have killed for an extra one
hundred and sixty-eight official questions

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that I didn't have to worry about
spoiling.

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But...

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okay, wait.

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If these are just sitting there on the
LawHub interface, why isn't everyone talking

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about them?

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Is there a catch?

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There is a massive catch.

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Well, a few of them, actually.

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It's a bit of a minefield, structurally
speaking.

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The first thing you'll encounter is, uh,
well, it's a design flaw that I can only

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describe as a total user-interface
catastrophe.

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When you open one of these twelve-question
drills, there is a giant,

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bright, tempting button at the top of the
screen that says "Submit."

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And if you click that button, thinking
you're submitting your answer for question

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one...

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Oh, no.

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Don't tell me.

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Yep.

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It submits the entire twelve-question
drill.

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Instantly.

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It locks you out of the rest of the
questions, grades you a zero on everything you

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didn't touch, and you can't restart it
easily.

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It's incredibly frustrating for students.

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That is incredibly bad design.

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Who- who- who puts a global submit button
right where you expect the "next question"

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button to be?

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Okay, so note to self, and to everyone
listening: do not click "Submit" until you

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have finished all twelve questions.

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But, what about the timing?

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Is it- is it a standard countdown timer?

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Actually, no.

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And this is actually a positive feature,
if you use it correctly.

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It's a soccer-style timer.

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It just counts up.

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It doesn't- it doesn't tick down to zero,
and it doesn't record your individual

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per-question times.

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It just tells you how long you've been in
the set.

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Which, if you think about it, is a massive
blessing for early-stage study.

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It takes away the panic.

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You can focus purely on accuracy, untimed,
without that ticking clock looming over

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your shoulder, before you transition to
the high-pressure countdowns of the actual

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PrepTests.

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Okay, yeah, I like that.

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A count-up timer lets you breathe.

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It lets you actually work through the
logic.

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But what happens when you finally do hit
that dreaded "Submit" button and you want

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to review your answers?

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Because I've seen some of LSAC's official
explanations, and,

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uh...

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they can be pretty dense.

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Dense is a very polite word for it, Nora.

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They are a nightmare of academic
over-explanation.

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They use these incredibly clunky,
theoretical labels.

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They'll tell you an answer choice is wrong
because of a "task reversal" or a "vague

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impact."

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I- I have a law degree, and I've been
doing this for over a decade,

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and even I have to squint at those
explanations and think, "What on earth does that

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actually mean in plain English?"

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Exactly!

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It's like they're trying to teach you a
whole taxonomy of formal logic instead of

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just helping you see why the argument
doesn't work.

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Like, "vague impact"?

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What is that, a weather report?

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It's so- it's so frustrating for beginners
because they think they need to memorize

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those terms to do well on the test.

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You absolutely do not.

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In fact, you should actively ignore them.

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This is where my deposition principle
comes in.

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When you're reviewing these drills, treat
the argument like a witness you're

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deposing.

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Forget the fancy academic jargon.

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Just find the claim they are making-the
conclusion.

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Then find the support-the premises.

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And then find the gap.

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What did they assume?

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What did they leave out?

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If you can describe that gap in plain,
everyday language, you've solved the

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question.

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You don't need LSAC's label of "task
reversal" to know that an answer choice is

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completely irrelevant.

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Yes!

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"Find the gap."

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That's it.

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Keep it simple.

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So, use the free one hundred and
sixty-eight questions to build that core muscle,

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dodge the giant "Submit" button trap, and
ignore the jargon-heavy explanations.

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That sounds like a winning game plan.

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It really is.

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Alright, good chatting, Nora.

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Talk soon.

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See ya, Adrian.