LSAT Reading Comprehension (Manhattan Prep LSAT Strategy Guides)

✍ Scribed by Manhattan Prep

• Publisher: Manhattan Prep
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 500
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Manhattan Prep’s LSAT Reading Comprehension guide, fully updated for the digital exam, is an essential tool for a surprisingly tricky part of the LSAT. Manhattan Prep’s LSAT guides use officially-released LSAT questions and are written by the company’s instructors, who have all scored a 172 or higher on the official LSAT—we know how to earn a great score and we know how to teach you to do the same.

This guide will train you to approach Reading Comprehension as a law student would approach a legal text:

• Recognize the central argument
• Use reading and note-taking frameworks to stay organized and retain information 
• Execute the appropriate process for each type of question
• Predict correct answers and spot trap answers
• Take advantage of the digital format to work quickly and strategically

Each chapter in LSAT Reading Comprehension features drills and full practice sets—made up of real LSAT questions—to help you absorb and apply what you’ve learned. The in-depth solutions walk you through every step needed to master LSAT Reading comprehension, from your initial passage analysis to your final answer selection. 

✦ Table of Contents

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Contents
Part 1: Change How You Read
1. Reading Comprehension Overview
2. Reading for the Scale
Drill It: Identifying the Scale
Drill It: Author’s Opinion
3. PEAR
Drill It: Anticipate!
Drill It: Read Around the Blanks
4. Annotation and Passage Mapping
Drill It: Annotation and Passage Mapping
Part 2: Master the Questions
5. The Questions
Drill It: Question Types in Action
Drill It: Inference
Drill It: Finding Support
Drill It: Prephrasing the Answer, Part 1
Drill It: Prephrasing the Answer, Part 2
Drill It: Spiral Review Practice
6. Working Wrong-to-Right
Drill It: Characteristics of Incorrect Answers
Drill It: Similar Answers
Part 3: Apply Your Knowledge
6¾. Progress Check
Drill It: Coached Practice Set
Drill It: Uncoached Practice Set
7. Timing
Drill It: Pick Up the Pace!
8. Comparative Passages
Drill It: Name That Relationship
Drill It: Comparative Passages
9. Extreme Passages
Drill It: Redacted Passage
Drill It: Extreme Passages
10. Unusual Passages
Drill It: Unusual Passages
11. Putting It All Together
Drill It: The Final Set