LSAT

You have 32 peanuts each the same shape and color. These peanuts are labeled A through FF, respectively. One of these peanuts is slightly tastier than the other 31. The peanut eaten after peanut Z must always be either peanut A or peanut J. Are you losing your mind yet? Is this actually the stuff Supreme Court Justices are made of? And if it is, was the decision in Bush V. Gore any surprise?

You want to go to law school. You are great at arguing, have excellent language skills, perhaps you wrote a thesis on Jane Austin that knocked your advisor's socks off. Now you are lining up peanuts on the kitchen counter and labeling them with a Sharpie. Where did it all go wrong? Is it possible that this one test will keep you from becoming the public-interest oriented and/or over-earning power broker you are destined to become?

Much like the Rubik's cube, the LSAT requires a ritualistic understanding of the types of disarray these puzzles can come in. If hundreds of people can believe that Sudoku and the Sunday crossword puzzle make for good fun, then you, my aspiring young lawyer friend, can learn to enjoy (or at least master) the LSAT—you just need to learn the tricks.

I will offer you a structured, class-like approach to improving your LSAT score. I use the Power Score books and real LSAT's to coach you. After I have led you through the different aspects of the LSAT, your test taking will improve and so will your confidence. With luck, the test will start to seem more like a challenging board game than a series of intellectually crippling koans.

Move over, Justice Roberts.