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A 12-week LSAT study plan, method first.
This is the schedule we'd hand a friend starting from zero: learn the test, build a real method for each section, then practice under time. It's written for the current LSAT — two scored Logical Reasoning sections, one scored Reading Comprehension section, no Logic Games.
Shorter timeline? Compress the phases, not the review. An 8-week version roughly halves phases two and three; a 4-week version is for retakers who already have a method.
Weeks 1–2
1. Learn the test and set your baseline
- Get to know the current LSAT format: two scored Logical Reasoning sections, one scored Reading Comprehension section, and one unscored section. Logic Games are gone — do not spend a minute on old-format games material.
- Take one timed practice test early, before you feel ready. The score doesn't matter; the breakdown does. Note which question types cost you the most time and the most points.
- Set a weekly schedule you can actually keep. Ten focused hours a week beats twenty distracted ones.
Guide for this phase
The Complete LSAT Prep Guide covers the current format, the argument-analysis method, and 12-, 8-, and 4-week plans if your timeline is shorter.
The Complete LSAT Prep Guide — $49.99Weeks 3–6
2. Build your Logical Reasoning method
- Logical Reasoning is two-thirds of your scored questions, so it gets the biggest block of the plan. Work through the core question types one at a time — method first, then worked examples, then untimed practice.
- Learn to name what an argument is doing before you look at the answer choices: premises, conclusion, and the assumption holding them together.
- Start a wrong-answer journal now. Every miss gets a reason, in your own words. This is where improvement actually comes from.
Guide for this phase
LSAT Logical Reasoning Mastery devotes a chapter to each core question type, with worked examples, trap-answer training, and a wrong-answer journal template.
LSAT Logical Reasoning Mastery — $29.99Weeks 7–9
3. Add Reading Comprehension
- Keep LR warm with short drill sets while you learn a repeatable RC method: read for structure, map the passage, and let the map carry the questions.
- Practice the 35-minute pacing math early — how long a passage should take, when to move on, and how to triage the four passages in a section.
- Include comparative reading; it appears on every test.
Guide for this phase
LSAT Reading Comprehension Mastery teaches the structural reading method and includes four full original practice passages with thorough explanations.
LSAT Reading Comprehension Mastery — $29.99Weeks 10–12
4. Timed practice and review
- Shift to timed work: full sections under the 35-minute clock, then full practice tests weekly. Simulate test-day conditions, including the digital interface if you can.
- Review is still the point. Spend at least as long reviewing a section as you spent taking it. Blind review — re-trying questions untimed before checking answers — is the highest-value habit in this phase.
- In the final week, taper. Light review, logistics, sleep. Cramming new material in the last days costs more than it gains.
Guide for this phase
The LSAT Practice Drill Pack has 69 original questions across five timed sets, a blind-review guide, and an 8-week drill planner.
LSAT Practice Drill Pack — $29.99
One honest note.
No plan can promise a score. What a plan can do is make sure your hours go to the things that move scores: method before volume, review before more volume, and honest timing practice before test day.
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