The other day, I received this email:

hi there- i am interested in purchasing your lsat guide but am concerned that it will not have the latest up to date information- it says it is to be used with the 10 real lsat tests from 1996 and this is obviously 2007- i specifically need help with the games section which has changed significantly since 1996- please let me know if your guide is current and will be helpful-

The question is well-meaning, but . . .

full text: Does The LSAT Change Over Time?

I get a lot of emails from people asking me what the best way is to prepare for the so-called “vocabulary” questions on the GRE Verbal section. My answer surprises a lot of people . . .

full text: The Best GRE Vocabulary Tool I’ve Ever Seen

While I was researching a recent post on the race and gender gaps in the SAT, I came across this 2003 article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03239/215443.stm

It discusses some of the points I’ll be making in my post.  But I was very surprised by . . .

full text: Ohhhh . . . Princeton Review. Now I get it.

Sometimes my LSAT students get a little worried when they realize I don’t believe in classifying logic games.

You see, most test-prep guys pad their LSAT materials by  . . .

full text: Linear, Grouping, Linear/Grouping, Grinnier/Looping: LSAT Logic Games De-Mystified

Summer is here again, and for many students that means camp, jobs, off-season sports practices, volunteer projects—anything but a spare minute of idle time to be young and carefree.

In a lot of cases, it also mean it’s time to get ready for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, or GRE.

When I first got into this field . . .

full text: Test Prep In The Summer

Sometimes people ask me if I have any plans to release a Strategy Guide for the MCAT.  The answer is always a resounding no.

Here’s my thinking on this . . .

full text: MCAT Prep? Not here.

I used to love the SAT, back before 2005.  It was a pretty honest test then.  I could defend it whenever people attacked it (which was all the time), because every question was legitimate.  I even remember the analogies fondly—I had a way to solve them that took advantage of the test’s rules and patterns and didn’t require you to study vocabulary.

Sigh.  Memories.

Unfortunately, the current version of the SAT just . . .

full text: The SAT’s Grammatical Inconsistencies

A lot of my GRE subscribers have written to ask me about the ETS’s recent decision to cancel its planned overhaul of the GRE.

The decision is certainly puzzling to those of us in the test-prep industry.  Always ready to knock a testing company, Fairtest.org released an article called “New GRE Cancellation Reveals ETS Flaws,” which you can find here.  The article says, with little substantive proof, that the new GRE was just a chance for the ETS to make more money.  Fairtest seems to think that . . .

full text: No GRE Changes For Now

I was poking around on the Internet the other day and I came across this:

 http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/test-prince.html

It’s an article about Robin Singh, the founder of TestMasters, which is one of the more fanatical test prep companies on the national scene (think 80-hour classes, materials delivered by courier, and over 5,000 sample LSAT questions to work with).

According to the article . . .

full text: The LSAT, The Contrapositive, And A Test-Prep Rock Star

If you’ve been looking at my web site for a while, you may be surprised to see that I’ve added a blog now.

I did this for two major reasons. First, it allows you to learn a little bit more about me, Grammatix, and my test-taking approach. This way, you can get some free testing advice in the white paper, look at the manifesto, and check out the . . .

full text: Why I have a blog now