Effective LSAT Prep in Denver & Boulder, Colorado

If you are applying for competitive law school programs that offer a Juris Doctor (JD) degree, your LSAT score is the single most important factor in admissions, followed by your undergraduate GPA. It is a meaningfully important goal for law school applicants to aim for their target school’s median LSAT score. If you are nearing graduation from college, have recently graduated, or are a full-time working professional living in the Denver and Boulder area, let your journey into one of the prestigious law schools across the U.S. start at Mindfish. Through personalized on location or remote tutoring programs, diagnostic tests, and mock exams, Mindfish LSAT tutors will help you build accuracy, confidence, and speed as you gear up for your test day.

What is the LSAT?

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a standardized skills-based exam designed to test the critical thinking and reasoning skills that are crucial for success in law school. Administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), the LSAT is the only standardized test accepted by all ABA-accredited law schools. The basic skills tested on the LSAT are Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension, and there is also an unscored essay task.

LSAT scores range from 120-180, with an average score of 153.Only three of the four sections you complete actually contribute to your LSAT score. Test administrators calculate LSAT scores by adding three scores: the two Logical Reading sections and the Reading Comprehension section. One additional section, the experimental section, is either a third Logical Reasoning section or a second Reading Comprehension, but does not count towards your score. Tests are taken either at home on a personal laptop or desktop computer with virtual proctoring, or are administered on a computer at a Prometric test center.

What Content is on the LSAT?

Four 35-minute sections make up the LSAT. Composed of two sections, the Logical Reasoning section (“Arguments”) determines approximately 67% of your total score and contains 24-26 multiple-choice questions per section. During the logical reasoning sections of the exam, test-takers will encounter questions that involve critiquing, reviewing, and improving arguments. They’ll also draw inferences and identify assumptions using conditional reasoning.

During the Reading Comprehension section, test-takers will encounter approximately 27 multiple-choice questions based on four passages. Three of the passages are written by one author while the fourth passage is a combination of two different sources discussing the same topic. The Reading Comprehension portion of the LSAT tests the ability to draw inferences based on text, determine main ideas of passages, discover relevant information within a text, and understand complex sentences with challenging vocabulary.

Test-takers must complete an unscored experimental portion called the LSAT Experimental Section. Used by the LSAC to see how certain types of questions will perform on future LSATs, the Experimental Section will contain questions similar to one of the earlier sections of the test. On test day, you will not be told which section is unscored.

The last part of the LSAT is an unscored writing sample, which evaluates the ability to form an argument based on a prompt. Rather than receiving a score for a writing sample, the LSAC will send the sample to any law schools to which test-takers apply. The writing sample can be completed on a computer on a different day than the rest of the exam, and if you take multiple LSAT exams, you only need to have one essay on file.