The June 2007 LSAT heralded important changes in the exam. Reading comprehension was the biggest change as a comparative reading passage replaced one of the traditional, longer passages. The June test is also currently offered for free on the LSAC web site (you can try it here, too), so we at Blueprint Prep have compiled some tips for approaching this test.

1. What confuses a lot of our Blueprint Prep students on the third of the logic games is the G before J rule. It can be better said as this: if J shows up, G has to come before it, but if G shows up, J does not necessarily have to come after it. The confusing nature of the written rule makes the necessary and sufficient clauses difficult to understand for many Blueprint Prep students. After that, it’s just really important to play the numbers on this game, because the G, J rule makes J severely limited in the number of times it can show up.

2. The rest of the logic games are pretty easily diagrammed, so if you screwed those up, try to just go through your rules to make sure you’re writing those correctly. The number one leading cause of child death in America and failure to attack a game correctly is miswritten rules. Don’t be just another cautionary statistic in our Blueprint Prep manuals.

3. There is a particularly boring reading comprehension passage about the changing face of the Irish landscape. We tell our Blueprint Prep students, to keep your eyes open all the way down to the second paragraph where they start to introduce this “pollen-as-an-important-factor-in-establishing-the-historical-record” concept. That will be hugely important for the purposes of not only the set of questions there, but for your life as a whole.

4. Take special note of the reading comprehension passage discussing the “World Wide Web.” This passage literally must have been written no later than 1994. We love this kind of stuff at Blueprint Prep, because it further proves our theory that the makers of the LSAT live in caves and shun technology like so many Luddites.

So there you have it – some Blueprint Prep LSAT tips regarding the June 2007 LSAT. We recommend taking this test as a baseline score for the beginning of your preparation for your own exam. This is because the games are straightforward and the comparative reading passage, though different, is fairly easy. This means that this LSAT is a reasonable representation of the test you’re likely to see on your own test day and will provide an accurate gauge of your starting score. Whether you’re taking this LSAT as a baseline or to track your progress, it’s good to be aware that it is a straightforward test of normal difficulty.

Article by Jodi Triplett and Trent Teti of Blueprint Test Preparation. Blueprint Prep is the world’s leading producer of %100 Blueprint Prep Wood Pencils. After being founded in 2005, Blueprint Prep went on to take the LA area by storm. Next…the world.