The PowerScore LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible by David M. Killoran Published by PowerScore Publishing 2nd (second) edition (2010) Perfect Paperback

by David M. Killoran

PowerScore's LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible is the definitive guide to the Reading Comprehension section of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). This book features a powerful and comprehensive system for decoding each passage and question, and uses extensive drills and official LSAT passages to teach critical concepts and techniques. The PowerScore Reading Comprehension Bible will improve your LSAT reading comprehension skills by teaching you exactly what to look for in LSAT passages.The book explains the fundamental principles of the Reading Comprehension section by The Reading Comprehension Bible can be supplemented by The LSAT Reading Passage Type Training publication. The Reading Comprehension Bible , combined with the PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible , and LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible, make up the PowerScore Trilogy. The Trilogy is the definitive and comprehensive guide to attacking all sections of the LSAT. PowerScore offers comprehensive LSAT, GMAT, GRE, SAT, and ACT live and online preparation classes. For more information about PowerScore's publications or services, please visit PowerScore.com or contact PowerScore at (800) 545-1750. About the Authors Dave Killoran, a graduate of Duke University, is an expert in test preparation with over 20 years of teaching experience and a 99th percentile score on a Law Services-administered LSAT. In addition to having written PowerScore's legendary LSAT Bible Series, and many other popular publications, Dave has overseen the preparation of thousands of students and founded two national LSAT preparation companies.Steven G. Stein is a test expert who has scored in the 99th percentile on an officially administered LSAT, GMAT, and GRE, and has co-authored many books on test preparation, including PowerScore's LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible, LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible Workbook, and several volumes of PowerScore's LSATs Deconstructed Series. Steve earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, and his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Genres: Law, Nonfiction, Textbooks

Perfect Paperback

First published August 1, 2008

Reviews

[katherine marks · Rating 5 out of 5]

i read this book cover to cover so yeah it’s going towards my book count

[Joseph Lee]

I have read through nearly 2000 pages of LSAT prep this summer fear me

[alyvia cantrell]

if I fail the lsat it’s on this dude tbh

[joud]

for someone who reads for fun i actually wanted to die while reading this book. they make the questions so complicated AND FOR WHAT? anyway i don’t recommend.

[Bruno]

Not as helpful as the Logical Reasoning book

[Tyler Zimmer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Even worse than LR

[Ian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I started doing worse on the reading comprehension section after reading this book. Whereas the other two Bibles had good tips for understanding the mindset of test makers and providing unintuitive LSAT definitions (such as the LSAT definition of "some" and "most"), this one clogs up natural reading ability with its "tips." No "method" is going to make you a better reader.

If you read at least 15 nonfiction books a year, skip this one.

[Reagan Faith Waggoner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Altogether decent prep book

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worthwhile resource that provides a number of practical tips, but it is not sufficient by itself.

LSATlab + LSATdemon RC YouTube videos are great to watch in tandem w/ this book. Similar overarching principles, but different practical approach strategies.

This is mostly useful for covering your bases on the principles of the RC section + a handful of extremely valuable tips explaining common incorrect/correct answer patterns (things that help you immediately cross out otherwise tempting answers). The detailed approach strategies are impractical/overdone for my taste, but the book was still useful for filling in a few gaps.

In retrospect, even the “label the question type”, “write out the main idea” “write out each viewpoint” drill sections are useful for internalizing necessary habits into your brain - tho it does feel absurd while doing them. You won’t be physically writing down most, if any, of that stuff on test day. There’s no time.

About 1/3 of my current approach comes from this book
Another 1/3 from online videos
The remaining 1/3, I imagine, is going to come from patterns I pick up while doing a ridiculous # of practice test sets

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Side note:

The editors of these LSAT RC passages, by their insidious methods, are enough to make an atheist start believing in demons. You have to realize that perfectly good source material is collected by the test makers and then intentionally made worse/convoluted - to the point where the passages are almost unbearable but still comprehensible.

You have to approach the passages with an active & aggressive agenda of cutting through bullshit/traps in order to find the author’s main point & any viewpoints described. How you do that in a timely manner is what you have to figure out.

[David Steyer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the smallest of the three books in the LSAT Bible collection from PowerScore. While there are some tips and tricks included here, my opinion is that you should have learned how to do this in college.

The books gives tips on VIEWSTAMP but you should know what is the main point of a passage, how do the different perspectives conflict, where do they agree, what are specific examples, etc. Again I do not fault the author for explaining the necessary skills to survive the test. I fault people going to college who have not figured this out. This should be the easiest section for everyone.

[Topaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hate it here!!!! I hate it here!!!!!!!!

[Merima Kadić · Rating 3 out of 5]

The RC bible is a good way to become familiar with reading comprehension, but as most of the strategies and drills focused on note taking I did not find it to be as useful as the other two.

[Morgan Gallagher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hated every second. I never wanna comprehend ever again tbh.

[Ryann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read it and that’s what counts

[Bri B. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m being generous with 2 stars.. chatgpt taught me everything i know about RC, this book sucked. Don’t waste your time, either teach yourself or hire a tutor

[Katie Atkinson · Rating 2 out of 5]

this has been my life for the past 2 months, just thought I’d share

[Moreen McGrath ❣️]

Here’s to hoping this wasn’t a big waste of my time!

[Ke · Rating 4 out of 5]

While it is true that the first section of this book is more prolix than the other volumes of the series, I still found it helpful.

It provided an organization system as to tackle the reading comprehension questions.

[Lily Bond · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rather unnecessary prep book for LSAT.

[Eva D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful, I guess.

[Edgar Febles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just get logical reasoning book. This book is redundant.