TestMasters LSAT Course Syllabus
The TestMasters LSAT Course consists of twenty-four class meetings. Twenty of these
meetings are four-hour lectures taught by a live instructor, and the other four
meetings are full-length LSAT diagnostics administered under official testing conditions.
The total in-class teaching time is eighty hours, and the four proctored diagnostic
exams represent an additional sixteen hours of classroom time. The twenty lectures
consist of fifteen four-hour lessons, three four-hour diagnostic reviews, and two
four-hour LSAT Jam sessions. Each lesson is accompanied by an extensive
homework assignment, and TestMasters students typically spend an average of fifteen
to twenty hours a week preparing for the LSAT outside of class. The following syllabus
outlines what is covered in each of the fifteen lessons of the TestMasters LSAT
Prep Course.
Lesson One
- Logical Reasoning
- Reacting to the Stimulus
- Arguments and Sets of Facts
- The Fifteen Question Types™
- Sufficient and Necessary Conditions
- Incorrect Negation™, Incorrect Reversal™, and the
Contrapositive
- The Positive and Contrapositive Argument Structures
- The Transitive Property
- Diagramming Conditional Statements
- Logic Games
- Pure Sequencing Theory
- Pure Sequencing Games
Lesson Two
- Logical Reasoning
- A Commonly Missed Problem
- Logic Games/Logical Reasoning
- Logical Reasoning
- Type One Questions
- Quantifiers
- The Rules of Reversibility
- Argument Templates
Lesson Three
- Reading Comprehension
- General Introduction
- Environmental Awareness
- Logic Games
- Basic Linear Setups
- The Not Rule™
- Dual Options and Tri-Options
- Blocks, Anti-Blocks, and Split Blocks
- Basic Linear Games
- The Hypothetical Sweep™
Lesson Four
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Seven Questions
- Type Eight Questions
- Logic Games
- Pure Grouping Theory
- Pure Grouping Games
Lesson Five
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Three Questions
- Cause and Effect Relationships
- Reading Comprehension
Lesson Six
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Two Questions
- The 2N Negation Technique™
- The 2S Justification Technique™
- Logic Games
Lesson Seven
- Logical Reasoning
- Reading Comprehension
- Logic Games
- Linear Setup Theory
- Advanced Linear Setups
- Advanced Linear Games
Lesson Eight
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Four Questions
- Type Five Questions
- The Good/Bad Test™
- Reading Comprehension
Lesson Nine
- Logical Reasoning
- Flawed Methods of Reasoning—Part One
- Type 4F Questions
- Logic Games
- Master the Possibilities™
- Numerical Distribution
Lesson Ten
- Logical Reasoning
- Flawed Methods of Reasoning—Part Two
- Type 4F Questions
- Type 5F Questions
- Reading Comprehension
- Arts & Literature Passages
Lesson Eleven
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Six Questions
- Type Ten Questions
- Logic Games
- Complex Association Games
Lesson Twelve
- Logical Reasoning
- Principle Questions
- Type Thirteen Questions
- Reading Comprehension
Lesson Thirteen
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Eleven Questions
- The Yes/No Test™
- Type Twelve Questions
- The Yes/Yes Test™
- Reading Comprehension
- Comparative Reading Overview
- Comparative Reading Passages
- Logic Games
Lesson Fourteen
- The Writing Sample
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Fourteen Questions
- Type Fifteen Questions
- Logic Games
Lesson Fifteen
- Logical Reasoning Review
- Reading Comprehension Review
- Logic Games Review