TestMasters Weekend LSAT Course Syllabus
The TestMasters Weekend LSAT Course consists of four
lessons, each of which is four hours in length. Lessons One and Two are taught
on Saturday, and Lessons Three and Four are taught on Sunday. A full-length pre-course diagnostic test
is available in the Online Resource Center of our website. Approximately one week prior to the start of the course, students receive a 400-page coursebook that
contains LSAT questions, drills, analyses, and explanations, along with a
comprehensive homework assignment for students to work through once they
have completed the course. Students can use our Online Resource Center to score
these diagnostic tests and receive immediate detailed statistical feedback.
The following syllabus outlines what is covered in the TestMasters Weekend
LSAT Course.
Lesson One (Saturday 9AM-1PM)
- The LSAT Scoring Scale
- Logical Reasoning
- Reacting to the Stimulus
- Identifying Premises and Conclusions
- The Fifteen Question Types™
- Type One Questions
- Sufficient and Necessary Conditions
- Incorrect Negation™, Incorrect Reversal™, and the Contrapositive
- Diagramming Conditional Statements
- The Unless Formula™
- The Positive and Contrapositive Argument Structures
- Type Seven Questions
- Logic Games
- Establishing the Absolutes and Considering the Possibilities
- The Logical Construct™
- Pure Sequencing
- Basic Linear Setups
- Not Rules™, Blocks, and Dual Options
- Reading Comprehension
- General Introduction
- Categorizing the Passages
- Evaluating the Scholars
Lesson Two (Saturday 2PM-6PM)
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Three Questions
- Cause and Effect Problems
- Type Two, Type 2N, and Type 2S Questions
- The 2N Negation Technique™
- The 2S Justification Technique™
- Formal Logic: Arrow and Venn Diagrams
- Diagramming Statements Containing "Some" and "Most"
- Reading Comprehension
- Logic Games
Lesson Three (Sunday 9AM-1PM)
- Logic Games
- Pure Grouping
- Double Arrows and Double Not Arrows
- Diagramming "Either/Or" Statements
- Common Grouping Deductions
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Four Questions
- Type Five Questions
- The Good/Bad Test™
- Flawed Methods of Reasoning
- Type 4F Questions
- Type 5F Questions
- Reading Comprehension
- History Passages
- Humanities Passages
Lesson Four (Sunday 2PM-6PM)
- The Writing Sample
- Logical Reasoning
- Type Six Questions
- Principle Questions
- Type Eleven Questions
- The Yes/No Test™
- Numbers, Amounts, and Percentages
- Reading Comprehension
- Logic Games
- Master the Possibilities™
- Numerical Distribution
