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Introduction (click to read)
This is a book for everyone who wants to improve their performance on the LSAT Logic Games section (also known as the Analytical Reasoning section). If you've never seen an LSAT Game before, if you've struggled with Games for a while, or if you're just looking to pick up a few more points on the section, this book is for you. It will help you become a Logic Games "big fat genius," no matter what your actual size.
You don't have to settle for anything less than a great score on the Logic Games section. How do we help you get that great score? One key is efficiency. Time you spend wondering what to do next is wasted time. This book will teach you exactly what to do in every situation you'll come across in the Logic Games section. You won't have to learn a million different approaches, one for each situation. Instead you'll learn simple and powerful techniques that are effective in as many different situations as possible. You'll also learn how to recognize when you should apply each technique. After all, not knowing when to use your skills is just as bad as not knowing the skills themselves. Everything in this book is designed to be easy to memorize and apply in a step-by-step manner, to cut down on stress, fatigue, and mistakes.
This book has been developed through work with students and seeing what's been successful for them in the real world. The techniques, the order of the chapters, and the structure of each lesson are all based on the author’s years of teaching the LSAT and thousands of hours of working directly with students. Like a one-on-one tutor, the book tells you at every stage what you need to memorize, what you need to practice, how to practice it, how much to study, what to focus on, when to move on, and what to do next. It gives you an innovative and extremely effective studying method that's been used successfully by hundreds of LSAT students.
Included are twelve games, including their questions, from actual LSATs. Each game is analyzed in detail. Every question and each step of the process are carefully explained. Because the LSAT Games and questions have changed over the years, only LSAT games from 1999 and later are used. No other Logic Games book on the market can say that. In fact, most of the games in this book are from 2002 and later to ensure that your skills are relevant to today's LSAT.
Testimonials (click to read)
It is the best written, most concise, and most coherent book about the LSAT on the market. It reinforces the concepts taught, and I found it very engaging (which I cannot say about most LSAT books). I received a 173, but more importantly I scored a perfect games section. I tell everyone I can to get this book.
— M. Pierce
This book helped me a lot. I used to finish only 3 games, but Brian's method helped me make it through all of them. After reading this book, I took the LSAT in October (for the second time) and got a 175 (which was 9 points higher than my first score). I liked the way this book really broke down the questions by category and guided me through the process of studying. Games was by far my worst section before I began to use the Big Fat Genius Guide, but I got all of the questions in the games section correct on the day of the actual test. I would recommend the book to anyone; it was better than all of the other books I used.
— M. Maloney
The Big Fat Genius Guide to the logic games was the best $40 I have ever spent. When I bought the book, I was running out of time on every practice logic games section I did, and on average getting about half of the questions wrong. After reading it and practicing with it, I was finishing on time and averaging one question wrong per game. I took the October LSAT, I answered every single question right, AND I finished an insane 12 minutes ahead of time!!! Thanks to this book, the answers in the logic games just pop out at me. Logic games were the one section I had trouble with before studying from this book, and on the actual test it was my best section! I am in love with this book.
— C. Jones
I cannot express how great a favor Brian Talbot has done for the luckless souls like myself who've gone through Stanley Kaplan courses and come out the other side convinced they were never going to get more than half of the Logic Games questions right. In my wildest dreams I never thought that my strongest section would be the games, but it was, and I scored a 168 on the LSAT. The efficacy and clarity of the method, and the depth to which it is thought through, are nothing short of remarkable. The book teaches a method of solving logic games based on simple principles applied efficiently and quickly. The prose style is friendly and reassuring. This method is utterly different from anything I’d learned before. You can really get a high score on the Logic Games section. Not just a "getting-by score" or a "better than I thought I'd do score," but a high score. For people like me, for whom the Logic Games were the most daunting section, this book is incredibly useful.
— M. Jonascu
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