Product Description

Ace the LSAT Logic Games. The premier guide for acing the challenging LSAT logic games.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #400776 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

Review
Review --Ace the LSAT Logic Games teaches a comprehensive and effective system for answering logic games. Employing descriptive, practical language, and easily understandable examples, it teaches specific skills and diagramming methods for every type of logic game you could expect-and for those games that you could never expect! Its flexible approach makes it suitable for test takers of all ability levels. Any book can explain answers. Ace teaches you how to identify the answer on your own, under the time constraints of the actual test. It includes more practice exercises and analysis than any other book, as well as analysis and commentary for the three most recent LSATs, making it you most relevant and realistic learning tool. This book is the new gold standard for teaching the logic games. I highly recommend it to our LSAT students.-- -- -- John Richardson J.D. author of Mastering the LSAT

...teaches a comprehensive and effective system for answering logic games...suitable for test takers of all ability levels. -- John Richardson J.D. Author, Mastering the LSAT

Review --ACE THE LSAT is a must supplement for students needing extra work in the Logic Games (Analytical Reasoning) section of the LSAT. In my opinion, the quality and quantity of the practice sets are far better than any similar textbooks on the market, even those by the major test-prep companies. The answer explanations are very thorough, with detailed diagrams to help organize the given information and analysis of each answer choice. I won't hesitate to recommend ACE THE LSAT as a supplemental textbook to my LSAT classes. --Ben Zandy, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics. Fullerton College, California

Review --Ace the LSAT Logic Games teaches a comprehensive and effective system for answering logic games. Employing descriptive, practical language, and easily understandable examples, it teaches specific skills and diagramming methods for every type of logic game you could expect-and for those games that you could never expect! Its flexible approach makes it suitable for test takers of all ability levels. Any book can explain answers. Ace teaches you how to identify the answer on your own, under the time constraints of the actual test. It includes more practice exercises and analysis than any other book, as well as analysis and commentary for the three most recent LSATs, making it you most relevant and realistic learning tool. This book is the new gold standard for teaching the logic games. I highly recommend it to our LSAT students. --John Richardson J.D. Author, Mastering the LSAT

From the Publisher
Why is Ace the LSAT Logic Games the new gold standard for teaching the logic games?

More games: It has 79 games, or nearly 20 full LSATs. Most games books have fewer than 20 games, or 5 LSATs. With ACE, you get enough practice games and so will not need to buy an additional games book.

Newest games: Every year ACE is updated with the 8 most recent games from the two most recent LSATs. Practicing with these up-to-date games eliminates surprises on test day. If a games book is not updated every year, it does not incorporate the test changes, leaving you at risk.

Best techniques: Our instructors have taught thousands of students. Building on our experience we have refined techniques that are powerful, yet practical, which can be used in the actual test environment.

This book is your private games tutor. It teaches you simple, yet powerful, techniques that you can use in any type of game. It teaches you how to identify the different types of games, how to diagram all the rules, how to make focused inferences, and how to answer every type of question. It steers you away from the testing traps that capture other test takers. It explains nearly 500 questions in detail, showing you why the credited answer is correct, and why each of the other four answer choices is wrong. Although this book will make you work hard, it will eliminate your uncertainty and alleviate your stress, allowing you to achieve a higher score on the games, guaranteed!

From the Inside Flap
Can you solve the following question in less than 20 seconds? Learn how to do this, and more, get Ace the LSAT Logic Games.

Anna, Childress, Doyle, Elbert, Xavier, and York are students in a philosophy class. They must each reserve one of six individual tutoring sessions with the instructor. Each session begins when the prior sessions ends. Exactly one student attends each session, and no student attends more than one session. The following conditions apply: Anna's session is later than Childress' session. Elbert's session is either first or last. York's session begins immediately after Xavier's session ends. Either Childress or Anna must be scheduled for the third session.

Which of the following is an acceptable schedule of students to tutoring sessions from first to sixth? (A)Elbert, Doyle, Childress, York, Xavier, Anna (B)Doyle, Childress, Anna, Xavier, York, Elbert (C)Elbert, Anna, Childress, Doyle, Xavier, York (D)Xavier, York, Doyle, Childress, Anna, Elbert (E)Doyle, Childress, Anna, Elbert, Xavier, York

For the first question in any games set, you can normally use each rule to eliminate one answer choice. Start with the first rule and determine which answer choice violates the rule. Then do the same for each subsequent rule. Choice (B) is the only answer choice we cannot eliminate, so it is the correct answer.

This valuable time-saving technique, and more, can be found in Ace the LSAT Logic Games.

Customer Reviews

Best book for the Games
I wasn't improving on games, so I decided to buy a games-only book. For most books a reviewer swears either that the book saved their life or that it brought them only grief and misery. I couldn't figure how the same book can be received so differently so I just bought all the games books (there are something like 8 of them). I didn't use all of them. I returned the ones that didn't measure up, I just had to pay a few bucks for return shipping.
I immediately returned the Arco and McGraw Hill books, they were clearly unrealistic (most other reviews share my opinion). The Kaplan book didn't cover anything that wasn't in their general LSAT book I had, so I retuned it too.
The Fat Genius book was very tough to work with because the visual quality is so bad it is distracting. The methods were okay, nothing amazing, but nothing invalid. It only has 12 real games from old LSATs, and I had seen some of them already, still not a big deal. It was an okay book, so I kept it. The powerscore book had been so positvely reviewed I figured it was going to work like magic. It didn't live up to expectations. It has 21 real games, but they were really old and I had seen many of them, still, not a big deal, practice is practice, right? The methods were fine, fairly standard stuff, and the layout was a lot easier to read. But, at $60 the powerscore book is really expensive, like college textbook expensive. I couldn't justify spending that much for a book that was not uniquely helpful, so I sent it back.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Ace the Games book. It was a sleeper because it didn't have any reviews. It is much bigger (at 520 pages) then both the Fat genius (200 pages) and powerscore (230 pages) books combined. It has 80+ games, and 12 are from the most recent three LSATs given last year. It has twice as many games as the other two books combined and its games are more recent. Best of all, it costs one-third as much as the other two books. I definitely kept it, it was the best value.
If you are only going to buy one book because you are short on time or money, get the Ace book. Or, if you have more time and want to play it safe, do what I did and buy several. Then return the ones you don't want after you look them over.

A good mix of tutorial advice with decent problems
The book contains 71 original problems as well as 12 more from LSATs 46-48.

I have to admit that I didn't buy this book for the tutorial advice as I had already done a reasonable amount of games and just wanted more games for practice. I did however, still go through the book and didn't skip right to the games.

I found the tutorial advice quite good. I wasn't particularly fond of the way they presented their diagrams in the book. But perhaps that was just my personal preference. The diagrams seemed to just be what was easy to typeset, not how a person would actually write on a piece of paper with a pencil.

This book is the only book out there that actually gives you some advice on how to organize the space on your test booklet since you won't be allowed to bring in scrap paper. I thought this was a nice touch.

When I originally started going through the problems, I found them a little bit tougher than they needed to be. Did *every* problem need to be an unbalanced game? The book even says that circular, mapping, matrix games are all but obselete. Yet I kept encountering them in their practice sets. I also found that I couldn't quite finish their sets in 35 minutes. And often the problems were so verbose, it took my 2-3 minutes just to get through the rules and diagramming. Games on today's LSATs are much tighter and cleaner than most of the problems in the book. The book's problems seemed more heavy and clunky - at least to me. A lot of the problems take up an entire page, so there's no room to work on the problem even if you wanted to write in the book.

Regardless, I did find the book helpful. It's obviously better to practice with harder questions than you are likely to encounter rather than easy ones.

I would recommend this book as a source of problems for anyone looking for some tougher questions to do as practice.

Perfect score
This book did it for me. I was plateauing at 70%-75% correct after doing a Kaplan book for all three sections. After doing just the first half this book, I was getting 95% or betteron the games. By the time I finished the book, I was getting them all right, and finishing with 3 or 4 minutes left over. I just took the Feb LSAT and the games were a total snap. I am still waiting for my score, but I am positive I did not miss one game question. I really liked that the book had the 3 most recent tests. Beacuse I got to practice with the most up to date games, this really made me comfortable that there wouldn't be any unpleasant surprises on test day. I definitely recommend you get this book if you are serious about succeeding at the games.