by Mike Barrett | Aug 19, 2011 | LSAT
The answer to this question will vary from person to person, but, in general, not much matters apart from your LSAT and GPA. (Before I go on, let me point out that I totally realize that what I’m saying here contradicts what most admissions people at most...
by Mike Barrett | Aug 8, 2011 | LSAT
The short answer is that you usually can’t, not when you’re starting to do the experimental section itself. Sometimes there’s something noticeably off about a section, but not usually. The longer answer is that there’s not really an advantage...
by Mike Barrett | Apr 30, 2011 | LSAT
Prepping for the LSAT shouldn’t be nearly as time-consuming as most people make it out to be. If you really pay attention to the bizarre design of the test, you can make significant progress in as little as a day or a weekend, believe it or not. Getting to the...
by Mike Barrett | Apr 12, 2011 | ACT, General, ISEE, LSAT, SAT, SSAT, Tips for Tutors
If you’ve been looking around on this site for a while, you know that the whole point of standardized tests is that they’re not constantly changing in any ways that matter. That’s what makes them standardized, and that’s also what makes them...
by Mike Barrett | Apr 12, 2011 | LSAT
Not Nearly As Often As You Might Think 🙂 Every community of test-preppers has its own unique and cherished myths. For people applying to college, there’s the myth that the ACT is fundamentally different from the SAT. For people applying to business school,...
by Mike Barrett | Apr 12, 2011 | ACT, General, ISEE, LSAT, SAT, SSAT, Tips for Tutors
(Slapping the current year on a Kaplan prep book is a trick to get you to buy another Kaplan prep book every 12 months) Every once in a while a student will ask me if my methods have been updated for “this year’s test.” They ask this for two reasons:...
