<p>anyone know/have experience? who took it? i mean is it like worse than calculus you'd say, or is it totally different in dimension and therefore not comparable ?</p>
<p>i really need to know...because those tricky games aggravate the hell out of me.</p>
<p>also does the lsat require you to think the same way as you would when doing math.</p>
<p>and, in your opinion, what is the hardest portion of the lsat.</p>
<p>why don't you just take one of the free diagnostic tests at the kaplan web site or the lsac website and find out for yourself? A bunch of other people telling you whether they thought it was hard or not won't do you much good at all.</p>
<p>Baller4lyfe,</p>
<p>I assume it's the equivalent of the "logic games" section of the LSAT they introduced right after I took the test.</p>
<p>When I taught at Stanley Kaplan, all of my students (literally all of them, without exception) thought it was the hardest part of the test. I had a friend in law school who came there after working on a Ph.D. in formal logic, and he thought it was the hardest section.</p>
<p>If you try to solve these problems like something you'd see on a math test, you'll probably run out of time. There's serious time pressure on that section of the test. They're testing you on your ability to make a lot of deductions, quickly, spot the ones that are most relevant, and remember them long enough to draw the right conclusion. Practice helps. Develop your own short-hand description of the conclusions you draw from the information you're given. Practice helps.</p>
<p>Oh, and one more thing: practice helps.</p>
<p>If you try to solve these problems like something you'd see on a math test, you'll probably run out of time."</p>
<p>thanks for replying, but i don't quite understand what you mean ?</p>
<p>are you saying the thinking strategy is uniquley different on the LSAT vs. math?</p>
<p>both are logic...so i wanted to know how much of a differentiation/similiartiy there is in the thinking involved.</p>
<p>As I recall, there are "tricks" that are taught on how to graph or chart different types of logic problems that really helped deduce the answers more quickly.</p>
<p>I wasn't suggesting that the rules of logic are different. I was suggesting that the key to performing well on the test is making the right deductions quickly.</p>
<p>Once you start doing practice tests, you can make your own comparisons to math class. It's been over thirty years since I took a math class, so any comparison I might make would be of limited utility.</p>
<p>I think the LSAT is harder than math in some ways, because it's less straightforward. They're trying to mess with you, after all. </p>
<p>I think the Games are initially the hardest section for most people, though they can be improved upon signficantly with practice and understanding. </p>
<p>How "hard" any given individual finds them will be very subjective, though. The only to really get a sense of them is to start doing them -- other people describing them won't mean much.</p>