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You Don't Run Out of Time on Reading Comp Because You Read Slowly Oct 22, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/yt/cZEM4j4iAa8/cheatsheet 00:00 The real problem 00:49 The diagnosis 02:07 The 3-part map 03:27 Example: the coastal city 05:02 Socratic Review 06:08 Start to finish I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/yt/cZEM4j4iAa8/lesson 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://unpluggedprep.com/yt/cZEM4j4iAa8/courses

Too Old for Law School? The Complete Answer Oct 21, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet People ask me every day if they're too old for law school. I've answered it in a lot of videos and lives, and this puts the whole answer in one place. No, you're not. Admissions committees ask whether you'll pass the bar, finish law school, and use the degree, and an older applicant can often answer all three better than a 22-year-old. An old GPA matters less once you've built a real career. Your letters, resume, and personal statement can carry it. The real barrier is the LSAT. If you work full time and have a family, give yourself 5 to 6 months, study in a regular block instead of marathons, and aim above your target schools' medians. Law schools only count your highest score. At 35, 42, or 51, you'll be that age anyway. The question is whether you'll be a lawyer when you get there. 0:00 Am I too old for law school? 6:33 Your law school application at 30, 40, 50 12:13 The LSAT is the real barrier 16:38 An LSAT study plan for working adults 22:38 Law school as an older student 25:03 Who should go to law school I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://lsatunplugged.com

The DOJ Printed Duke Law's Rejected Medians Oct 21, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/yt/L3OPjuwykBw/cheatsheet 00:00 The Duke letter 01:23 What a findings letter is 02:35 Duke's own paperwork 04:20 The medians 05:03 The model 05:35 Duke's answer 06:29 Berkeley 07:55 The one-word edit 09:02 William and Mary 10:01 What it means for deans 10:50 The pool grew at the top 11:40 The 25th isn't safe 13:20 What you can move I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/yt/L3OPjuwykBw/lesson 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://unpluggedprep.com/yt/L3OPjuwykBw/courses

Is Law School Worth It? The Full Answer Oct 20, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I've made a lot of videos on whether law school pays off. This one puts the whole answer in one place, with the numbers. The answer comes down to what you borrow and what you earn. Three years of tuition at the priciest schools now runs over a quarter of a million dollars, and a full price seat and a full ride at a school ranked 40 or 50 can sit $200,000 or more apart. Starting salaries split in two. A little over half land between $55,000 and $100,000, big firms pay $225,000, and almost nobody sits in between. The class of 2025 data is in here too. Five schools dropped more than 8 points in one year in graduates landing real legal jobs, Howard included. Read each school's own numbers before you sign anything. The number that moves both sides is your LSAT score. It decides which schools say yes and how much they pay you to come. 0:00 Two numbers: what you borrow, what you earn 2:39 Borrow: what the degree costs 4:55 Earn: what the degree pays 12:56 School: full price or a full ride 20:35 Data: read the school's own numbers 26:21 Score: the one number that moves both I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://lsatunplugged.com

How to Beat "Mini Logic Games" in LSAT Logical Reasoning Oct 19, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet "Mini logic games" are the rule-packed must be true questions in LSAT Logical Reasoning. One paragraph, a pile of rules, no argument to judge. You get every line on its own, and the whole thing falls apart the second you try to hold it all at once. I define the term, show the 2 kinds, and walk through 3 practice questions built like the real ones, easy to hard. Each one catches a different mistake. I name it and give you the fix right where it happens. You also get the 5 chain rules these questions test, plus a 2-night drill with released questions so you can see which mistake is actually yours. On the 102 released tests we have, these show up about 1 per test, flat since 1991. Honestly, that can't tell you much about today, because a test is years old by the time it's released. Takers on today's test report more, usually 1 or 2 per test. Chapters 0:00 "I can grasp the sentences separately, but never together" 0:20 What a mini logic game is 0:36 The 2 kinds 1:02 3 ways people miss these 1:29 Question 1 (easy): Radio Keswen 2:33 Mistake 1: working every rule in order 2:46 Fix 1: find the anchor 4:05 How often these show up 5:40 Question 2 (medium): the opera house 7:01 Mistake 3: could be true on a must 7:27 Fix 3: build 1 made-up world 8:23 The 5 chain rules 8:56 Question 3 (hard): Halvern and Odlum 10:17 Mistake 2: stopping 1 link early 10:48 Fix 2: follow the chain to the end 12:02 The 3 mistakes 12:11 Your 2-night drill I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://lsatunplugged.com

November 2026 LSAT Predictions, I Graded October First Oct 17, 2026

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Free November LSAT drill sets: https://www.unpluggedprep.com/drill On October 5, 2026, before the October LSAT, I posted 12 Reading Comp passages I thought LSAC would reuse. 4 came back on scored sections. A random 12 would have caught about 1. The other 56 passages on my list did no better than luck, and my 13 Logical Reasoning long shots went 0 for 13. A hit means the same passage, on a section that counted. I also ran my November rule as a backtest on the August, September and October 2026 tests (8 of 36, against about 2 for a random pick), and I'm upfront that it's flattered. The November 2026 picks, made with the same frozen rule, are in this video, and I'll grade them the same way after November 14. Past-test history comes from Jon Denning and Dave Killoran's public recaps and from r/LSAT, including Graeme Blake's topic threads. The picks and the grading are mine. Chapters 0:00 My October pick came back 1:37 How I grade: the rules, written first 1:43 The list, posted October 5 2:19 The 4 that came back 2:56 How I checked the reports 3:28 4 against about 1: the odds 4:03 The other 56 and the Logical Reasoning long shots 5:20 The hit I don't fully deserve 5:52 Whole September sections ran again 6:21 Why a list can't do much better than a third 7:00 Backtest, not a record: August, September, October 8:09 Credit, then the November picks 8:22 The November rule 8:41 My November top pick 9:11 The 12, in no order 9:49 Experimental passages that counted in October 10:44 The 30 old experimental passages 11:10 How I'll grade November 11:25 Changing the rule 11:49 Don't study the topics: what to practice instead 12:38 Test day: recognize a passage? Read it fresh 12:55 Logical Reasoning is 2 of your 3 scored sections 13:11 Free November drill sets Topics are what test takers reported after past tests. I don't have LSAC's test, and nobody does (I hope!). I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://lsatunplugged.com

Is Law School Worth It? Oct 15, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://swiy.co/m7PhHSPudLg 00:00 Same diploma, 2 outcomes 00:30 The 2 numbers 01:20 What you earn 01:49 The trap tier 02:31 Make the debt real 03:57 The lever 04:16 Marcus 05:22 2 offers 06:33 Do the math I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://swiy.co/m7PhHSPudLg1 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://swiy.co/m7PhHSPudLg2

The DOJ Published UCLA Law's Admissions Numbers. A 168 Got Rejected. Oct 14, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet 00:00 The DOJ letter 00:50 What it says 01:57 What happens next 02:50 UCLA's defense 03:22 The timeline 05:42 The 7x model 06:45 The median table 08:04 Every column went up 08:39 The rejected 168s 09:54 The money 10:28 What it means for you I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://lsatunplugged.com

Stuck in the High 160s? Stop Drilling by Question Type. Oct 13, 2026

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Download your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://swiy.co/ZPWHrIyA3Tk 00:00 The math 00:43 Why you plateau 00:48 Below 165: clusters 01:15 Above 165: noise 02:09 Stop drilling by type 02:40 The reading failure 04:04 The back-third cliff 05:20 Down to 2 06:21 The Socratic Review Method 06:51 Timed vs untimed 08:08 A bigger denominator I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://swiy.co/ZPWHrIyA3Tk1 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://swiy.co/ZPWHrIyA3Tk2

November 2026 LSAT Predictions: How I Built the List (Deep Dive) Oct 13, 2026

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Get the free November drill sets: https://unpluggedprep.com/drill Same 12 calls as my November predictions. New in this version: where the record comes from, the back-test with the dates locked, the counts under every rate, all 30 old experimental passages by name, and the Logical Reasoning list I built and threw out. The November LSAT runs November 11 to 14. Most of these won't show up, and I say that in the video. If one does, treat that section as scored and read the passage fresh. Logical Reasoning is 2 of your 3 scored sections, so we cover that too. The numbers (last 4 tests, June to October 2026) Scored once, last seen 9 to 18 months ago: 24 of 116 came back (about 1 in 5) Experimental only, last seen 13 to 18 months ago: 6 of 50 (about 1 in 8, small sample) Scored once, more than 18 months ago: about 8% (about 1 in 12; the August check alone was 5 of 67) Any passage at random: about 4% (about 1 in 25) Scored 2 or more times: 12 of 479 (about 1 in 40) Experimental, 9 to 12 months old: 2 of 137 (almost never) Back-test, June, August and September 2026: my top 20 caught 10 of 46. A random 20 catches about 3. Newest tests first caught 1. October, the first test the rule hadn't seen: 3 of 11 firmly matched passages in my top 12. A random 12 gets 0.4. Chapters 0:00 Why this version shows the work 0:30 The passages I think are due back 2:49 What October changed 4:05 Where the record comes from 6:12 How often the list is right 8:15 Testing the rule 11:21 Most likely 14:26 Old experimental passages 14:52 All 30 experimental passages 15:15 Long shots 15:48 3 long shots, start to finish 17:19 If you tested in September or October 18:16 Logical Reasoning 18:24 LR repeats, and why there's no LR list 22:22 My number 1 call 23:28 If you recognize a passage 25:41 Part 2: What October's test taught us 27:42 Your last few days 29:00 What if none show up? 29:17 Check my work 29:31 The free November drill sets Sources: past-test history comes from Jon Denning's public recaps and r/LSAT, including Graeme Blake's (LSATHacks) topic threads, plus comments on my videos and socials and my students. The model, the calls, and any mistakes are mine. Topics are what test takers reported after past tests. I don't have LSAC's test, and nobody does (I hope). I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching: https://lsatunplugged.com

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