The value of honing your reading comprehension skills extends far beyond getting a good LSAT score. A huge part of a lawyer’s daily life consists of reading dense, boring text and understanding every detail. This is what you’re signing up for if you want to be a lawyer, so you’d better get used to it. If you find that you’d rather poke your eyes out than read another convoluted passage about the solar system or jurists or some obscure poet you’ve never heard of, you might want to reconsider whether lawyering is a job you’ll actually enjoy.
With determination, focus, and consistency, Reading Comprehension is just as learnable as the rest of the LSAT. Start with the articles below to kickstart your journey toward Reading Comprehension mastery.
LSAT Reading Comprehension topics fall into the following categories: law, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. However, the LSAT does not test external factual knowledge of these topics.You are equipped to answer the questions on any Reading Comprehension passage—as long as you read it carefully—because everything you need is on the page.
