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Discover (or rediscover!) history’s greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you’re looking for a helpful companion to this wild collection of creatures, humans, and deities, you’ve found it!
Cheat Sheet / Updated 07-05-2023
Many cultures create a mythology to help explain the workings of the world. Western civilization is most familiar with the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology, who have comparable powers, but different names. And mythology is created often in response to human history, so a historical timeline can be a good reference to have.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The LSAT is intended to make you think like a lawyer. What do lawyers do? They argue. They make statements and support them with evidence to convince a judge or jury that they’re right or that their opponents are wrong.
What don’t lawyers do? They don’t argue from personal conviction or emotion. They don’t base their arguments on their own feelings but on the facts and the laws.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
So you’re seriously considering law school. You’re getting ready to take the LSAT. Have you thought about what you’d do with a law degree? A degree of Juris Doctor can lead down all sorts of roads. A lawyer isn’t a multipurpose legal expert; different lawyers specialize in different fields.
Business/Corporate
Some lawyers spend all their time working on behalf of corporations.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Reading for the LSAT isn’t the same as reading for pleasure or even for college coursework. You have very little time to comprehend the material and make reasoned analyses, so make sure you keep these tips in mind to maximize your limited time.
Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate — even if you’re bored.
Work one reading passage at a time; answer all the questions, and then move on.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
You should use much more of your precious time analyzing reading comprehension questions on the LSAT than reading the passages. The plan is to read just as much of the passage as you need to figure out its overall idea and basic structure.
Skim the questions
Many test-takers attack reading questions the logical way: They read the passage and then answer the questions.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Some LSAT test-takers find that an alternative approach to reading questions saves them time and helps them focus on the relevant details of each reading passage. You may want to try this approach to discover whether it works well for you.
Instead of giving a reading passage a once-through skim before you tackle the questions, jump into the questions first.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Your position on the LSAT essay is only as clear as your writing style. Admissions officers pay attention to your grammar and usage, so follow these tips for keeping your essay crisp and clean.
Punctuation
The most common punctuation errors involve commas and semicolons. Semicolons join independent clauses when the thoughts they convey are related enough to keep them in the same sentence.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Some people just naturally do well on standardized tests. They fly through the ACT and SAT (the ones you take to get into college), ace the GRE and GMAT (the ones you take to get into graduate school), and consider the LSAT easy. What makes them so successful at taking tests in general and the LSAT in particular?
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
A key to successfully answering logical reasoning questions is to understand how the LSAT uses certain words. The LSAT logical reasoning section applies these terms in a near-mathematical sense. Finding the correct answers to certain questions depends on the way the test-makers use these terms.
Quantity terminology
Make sure you’re familiar with terms that indicate quantities:
None: This one is easy.