[MRM]

I bought several prep books but didn't take any courses. In my experience, the only good the prep books did for me was they familiarized me with the test so I didn't have to spend time reading the instructions, and gave me some comfort level of knowing what was coming. I actually did worse on the logic portion after going through the test books, but I might have improved in the other areas. Overall, it was at best a wash. The best part of any of the books was that one of them had the average GPA and LSAT score of their entering classes, and I used that to help select schools for applications.

The most helpful thing was that the LSAT people publish a sample test. I think it was an old test that's now made public. The questions on that were slightly harder and subtly different that the test prep companies' questions. It is useful to spend time with the real sample test to figure out what they are asking with their questions and whay the right answer is correct, and why the others are wrong. It is also useful to compare the real test questions to the prep course questions and figure out why they are different.

Ultimately, the LSAT is simple. It is a matter of picking the answer that doesn't belong out of four answers that look the same. Three of them are the same: they are wong. One is different and that is the right answer.