LSAT 180 Mastery
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No account or prerequisite completion is needed for independent study. These practice results are not supervised credit or a certificate.
Overview
A twelve-module, year-long LSAT preparation pathway. Develop diagnostic review, argument analysis, formal logic, assumptions, evidence evaluation, flaw diagnosis, inference, principles, advanced reading, argumentative writing, pacing, full-simulation planning, targeted error repair, rare-error refinement, and test readiness with original practice. A 180 is an aspirational target, not a guaranteed outcome.
Disclaimer: Original Erudior preparation, independent of LSAC. This course is not an official LSAT practice test or a validated score predictor. Its original baseline reports raw results only. The app's generic bank timer and completion threshold are not LSAT timing or an LSAT passing score.
Lesson plan
Module 1. Orientation and diagnostic reasoning
- Start here — reasoning baseline in the app
- Recognizing arguments and evidence
- Establishing your diagnostic baseline and error log
- Reading for structure instead of memorizing details
Module 2. Arguments, conclusions, and premises
- Main and intermediate conclusions
- Background, concessions, and opposing views
- Arguments and causal explanations
- Linked and independent support
Module 3. Conditional and formal logic
- Sufficient and necessary conditions
- Contraposition and precise negation
- Translating conditional language
- Quantifiers and group overlap
- Rule chains and mixed inferences
Module 4. Assumptions and argument gaps
- Necessary assumptions
- Negation checks and their limits
- Sufficient assumptions
- Bridge and defender roles
- Matching assumptions to the exact gap
Module 5. Strengthen, weaken, and evaluate
- Strengthen and weaken the exact inference
- Causal claims and alternative explanations
- Sampling, comparisons, and quantitative evidence
- Evaluating plans and intended outcomes
- Evaluating arguments with opposing answers
Module 6. Flaws, paradoxes, and explanations
- Identifying the actual reasoning flaw
- Conditional and comparison flaws
- Percentage, rate, and total errors
- Resolving apparent paradoxes
- Comparing explanatory hypotheses
Module 7. Inference, principle, and method
- Must-follow and best-supported inferences
- Applying principles and exceptions
- Matching parallel reasoning and flaws
- Describing methods and statement roles
- Mixed untimed reasoning and review
Module 8. Reading comprehension fundamentals
- Mapping passages and paragraph functions
- Tracking author and reported viewpoints
- Identifying main point, purpose, and tone
- Locating details and supporting inferences
- Integrating reading skills in untimed sets
Module 9. Advanced reading and comparative passages
- Reconstructing dense passage arguments
- Reading technical language in context
- Comparing agreement, disagreement, and silence
- Integrating advanced and comparative reading
- Developing and revising an argumentative position
Module 10. Accuracy, pacing, and timed sections
- Choosing deliberate skips and planned returns
- Observing and testing time allocation
- Calibrating confidence and reviewing answers
- Running timed sections and reviewing the evidence
- Planning and drafting under time
Module 11. Full-length simulation and error analysis
- Selecting and designing full simulations
- Endurance, intermissions, and session continuity
- Preserving simulation and review records
- Interpreting results and testing repairs
- Integrating writing and draft review
Module 12. Elite-score refinement and test readiness
- Auditing rare errors and response decisions
- Choosing focused refinements
- Evaluating readiness evidence
- Checking administration and writing requirements
- Maintaining and adapting readiness