<p>1) I would recommend two max. LSs will usually average your scores.
2) I haven't heard great things about Kaplan. Most people recommend the TestMasters course and taking the previously-released LSATs (they're in 3 books published by LSAC) and the recent ones, I think after LSAT #40 or so. Check out Amazon.</p>
<p>My daughter took Kaplan and found the lectures to be sort of a waste of time, but the resources and reading room to be excellent. She took the Kaplan course last spring, came home from school in May and studied very diligently for about 3 weeks before the June, '04 exam. She got a 180.</p>
<p>Now she's teaching the prep course given by PowerScore.</p>