So, I- I- I was working with a student last Tuesday, and they were,
uh, they were literally mourning the loss of the Khan Academy LSAT partnership.
It- it's officially gone, retired.
And they felt like they'd lost their, you know, their primary source of free,
high-quality, official practice questions.
But, Nora, the- the reality is, LSAC didn't just throw those materials in the
garbage.
They quietly migrated them over to the LawHub platform.
Wait, they did?
Because I remember, oh my god, when I was studying on my own,
the panic when you feel like you're running out of official questions is so real.
I used to spend hours on Reddit, just hunting through old forums for,
like, "fresh" or unused questions.
If those Khan materials are still alive on LawHub, that is a massive deal.
They aren't just alive.
They're hidden in plain sight.
If you go into the LawHub app interface, under their drill library,
you'll find exactly fourteen Logical Reasoning Drill Sets and seven Reading
Comprehension Drill Sets.
And here is the kicker, Nora.
That is a cache of one hundred and sixty-eight practice problems.
And the vast, vast majority of those one hundred and sixty-eight questions have
never appeared in any published PrepTest before.
They are completely pristine.
One hundred and sixty-eight brand-new, official questions?
That- that's practically, what, like seven full sections of Logical Reasoning?
That is absolute gold for someone trying to preserve their actual test pool.
I mean, when you're preparing, you need to save PrepTests one hundred and one
through one hundred and fifty-eight for those clean, timed,
full-length diagnostics closer to test day.
You can't just burn through them early on to learn the basics.
Precisely.
You don't- you don't use your game-day scrimmages just to practice your,
uh, your free throws.
You use these fourteen Logical Reasoning Drill Sets to learn how to identify
assumptions, how to weaken an argument, how to do the basic mechanics.
Then, when you actually sit down for PrepTest one hundred and one,
or one hundred and eight, you aren't seeing spoiled questions.
Your diagnostics stay perfectly pristine.
It completely solves the scarcity crisis that self-study students face.
Honestly, I'm a little jealous.
I- I would have killed for an extra one hundred and sixty-eight official questions
that I didn't have to worry about spoiling.
But...
okay, wait.
If these are just sitting there on the LawHub interface, why isn't everyone talking
about them?
Is there a catch?
There is a massive catch.
Well, a few of them, actually.
It's a bit of a minefield, structurally speaking.
The first thing you'll encounter is, uh, well, it's a design flaw that I can only
describe as a total user-interface catastrophe.
When you open one of these twelve-question drills, there is a giant,
bright, tempting button at the top of the screen that says "Submit."
And if you click that button, thinking you're submitting your answer for question
one...
Oh, no.
Don't tell me.
Yep.
It submits the entire twelve-question drill.
Instantly.
It locks you out of the rest of the questions, grades you a zero on everything you
didn't touch, and you can't restart it easily.
It's incredibly frustrating for students.
That is incredibly bad design.
Who- who- who puts a global submit button right where you expect the "next question"
button to be?
Okay, so note to self, and to everyone listening: do not click "Submit" until you
have finished all twelve questions.
But, what about the timing?
Is it- is it a standard countdown timer?
Actually, no.
And this is actually a positive feature, if you use it correctly.
It's a soccer-style timer.
It just counts up.
It doesn't- it doesn't tick down to zero, and it doesn't record your individual
per-question times.
It just tells you how long you've been in the set.
Which, if you think about it, is a massive blessing for early-stage study.
It takes away the panic.
You can focus purely on accuracy, untimed, without that ticking clock looming over
your shoulder, before you transition to the high-pressure countdowns of the actual
PrepTests.
Okay, yeah, I like that.
A count-up timer lets you breathe.
It lets you actually work through the logic.
But what happens when you finally do hit that dreaded "Submit" button and you want
to review your answers?
Because I've seen some of LSAC's official explanations, and,
uh...
they can be pretty dense.
Dense is a very polite word for it, Nora.
They are a nightmare of academic over-explanation.
They use these incredibly clunky, theoretical labels.
They'll tell you an answer choice is wrong because of a "task reversal" or a "vague
impact."
I- I have a law degree, and I've been doing this for over a decade,
and even I have to squint at those explanations and think, "What on earth does that
actually mean in plain English?"
Exactly!
It's like they're trying to teach you a whole taxonomy of formal logic instead of
just helping you see why the argument doesn't work.
Like, "vague impact"?
What is that, a weather report?
It's so- it's so frustrating for beginners because they think they need to memorize
those terms to do well on the test.
You absolutely do not.
In fact, you should actively ignore them.
This is where my deposition principle comes in.
When you're reviewing these drills, treat the argument like a witness you're
deposing.
Forget the fancy academic jargon.
Just find the claim they are making-the conclusion.
Then find the support-the premises.
And then find the gap.
What did they assume?
What did they leave out?
If you can describe that gap in plain, everyday language, you've solved the
question.
You don't need LSAC's label of "task reversal" to know that an answer choice is
completely irrelevant.
Yes!
"Find the gap."
That's it.
Keep it simple.
So, use the free one hundred and sixty-eight questions to build that core muscle,
dodge the giant "Submit" button trap, and ignore the jargon-heavy explanations.
That sounds like a winning game plan.
It really is.
Alright, good chatting, Nora.
Talk soon.
See ya, Adrian.