McGraw-Hill's Conquering LSAT Logic Games

I read about how bad this book is suppose to be, yet to me it is the best book out there. I have gone through many of the game books, and this is by far the best. The problem with other books is that they don't show you the steps to diagramming, which is the hardest part of the game, and just give you the final diagram. I too went from getting most wrong to getting nearly 100% everytime after using their technique. Once I got the diagraming tech down, the games became second nature.

The point of the book is to help you get a higher score on the LSAT. Typos may kill anal people. But the typos are insignificant if you understand what they are teaching you. For example putting a / through a variable when you don't need to. But the methods are better than even powerscore. They teach you diagram every type of game. Powerscore uses too many words in their explanations. This book is more for visual learners. I knew by studying the powerscore bibles that you have to link combined variables. But they never teach you how to do it in complex problems. The book is created by harvard students. So they are not using official LSAT questions. But they teach you how to get better doing the problems.

As clearly asserted by others, this text is full of errors including explanations that employ flawed reasoning which leads them to provide/justify incorrect answers. The most frequent errors of this kind were related to "could (not) be true"/conditional questions where the writer(s) confuses this condition. This is highly problematic if you rely solely on the book to determine whether you arrive at the correct answer. HOWEVER, if you have time, it is marvelous for refining your higher level logic game skills. When the book indicates that you have selected a wrong answer, the fun is only beginning. You can then work to determine who TRULY made the error... It's like a book full of trick questions!!! Enjoy!

I consider this book to be the BEST available for teaching the Logic Games Section. The problem-solving methods and diagraming techniques that it teaches you are extremely usefull. After having worked through all of the chapters, I went from scoring quite poorly on the Logic Games (getting about 40% of the questions correct) to scoring about 100% on my LG sections. I also went from hating the Logic Games to loving them. If you are patient with this book, and don't get overly flustered by the occasional (and usually insignificant) type-o then it can drastically improve your score on the Logic Games. The methods truly are the best around; I have been an LSAT instructor for about a year, and I prefer them to anything else I've seen.