Hi team!

as the title says, does anyone have an idea where LSAC adopts its RC material? any journal, book, magazine you'd recommend?

I would like to start reading material that is similar to what's on the RC in my spare time.

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  • Wednesday, Jun 21 2017

    :smile:

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  • Wednesday, Jun 21 2017

    @uhinberg359 said:

    Much of the material is taken from published works (hence the attributions at the end of every preptest), but it is abridged and edited specially for the LSAT. I think that's what @jkatz1488955 meant.

    Yeah, at least that's how I read it, anyway, but that is true about the articles being abridged/edited.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    Much of the material is taken from published works (hence the attributions at the end of every preptest), but it is abridged and edited specially for the LSAT. I think that's what @jkatz1488955 meant.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    I believe all of the content is written specifically for the LSAT. I remember reading that in the LSAT Trainer.

    Wrong.

    They cite the sources at the end of each test. I caught a David Carr article from the NY Times in there once, which was a bit surprising. Other than that I think most of these come from academic journals from law, economics, and social sciences (the hardest sciences lol, see the passage on cultural imperialism for a good laugh).

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    The articles look like all the articles I used to read on EBSCOhost when I was researching to write a paper.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    @aaronwfrank90 said:

    At the end of the prep test look for the Acknowledgment page, they list the publications there.

    Edit: Also it seems quite common for people to suggest The Economist as a publication to read.

    thanks everyone!

    see the issue is, I don't mind reading The Economist, actually i quite enjoy reading it. It's the art history/science material that I need to get used to reading and get accustomed to the terminology.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    Yes, it's a little bit both. Some come from lesser known academic journals and some are written specifically for the test. The original works are formatted and edited for clarity so that RC questions with absolute right/wrong answers can be constructed.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    @jkatz1488955 said:

    I believe all of the content is written specifically for the LSAT. I remember reading that in the LSAT Trainer.

    They "trim" things down from original works. They also sometimes add in their own flair. Most of the time it is based on some real original work however. Look at the end of the prep tests for an "acknowledgment" page and it'll tell you where they got the stuff.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    I believe all of the content is written specifically for the LSAT. I remember reading that in the LSAT Trainer.

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  • Tuesday, Jun 20 2017

    At the end of the prep test look for the Acknowledgment page, they list the publications there.

    Edit: Also it seems quite common for people to suggest The Economist as a publication to read.

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