As we are firmly in the season of football and pumpkin spice lattes, that means the last LSAT of the year is also right around the corner! Let’s dive into some predictions and tips to help you out on the November LSAT test day.
What Will Be on the 2025 November LSAT?
Logical Reasoning
The LSAT Logical Reasoning Section focuses on analyzing, making, and operating on arguments based on a set of facts. While you’ll never be asked to question the truth of the premises, you will get asked to find and operate on flaws or assumptions in arguments. On the November LSAT, be prepared to find not just what the argument is trying to do, but the shortcomings of the facts offered in proving the conclusions the arguers are trying to make.
The LSAT has been pretty consistent on difficulty curves over the course of the Logical Reasoning Section. You can expect the first 10 questions to be relatively easy, ramping up in difficulty steadily until around question 21. The LSAT often will include a few somewhat easier questions at the end of the section. So, if you’re stumped on a later question, it could be worth skipping to tackle the last couple before those brutal ones. The LSAT has also consistently given exactly one parallel and one parallel flaw question in the recent past. If you’re not a fan of questions with six arguments, and you’re short on time, these could be good skip candidates.
More LSAT Help
🧠 An Introduction to the LSAT Logical Reasoning Section
📝 If You’re Studying for the LSAT, Memorize This List of Vocabulary Terms
Reading Comprehension
In each Reading Comprehension Section, you’ll be tasked with analyzing the logic underlying four excerpted passages. You’ll get exactly one comparative passage (those passages that ask you to compare two smaller passages side by side). However, you’ll also likely have one or two other passages focused on comparing viewpoints within a given passage. These passages all expect you to describe the similarities and differences between:
- viewpoints
- what the underlying subject is that the debate centers on
- where the author stands on the debate
When tackling the questions, be careful to differentiate between other viewpoints the author describes and the author’s own opinions on the subject at hand or viewpoints. The LSAT loves to put wrong answers in there that accurately answer the wrong question. For passages with multiple viewpoints, you also want to find points of agreement or nuance that limit how far you can push the viewpoints.
The LSAT also loves to test your ability to identify what is (and more importantly, what is not) within the scope of the subject of the passage. You can expect the majority of wrong answers in Reading Comprehension sections to be wrong because they add something unsupported by or mischaracterize what’s in the passage. A good tactic when analyzing answer choices on the November LSAT is to focus on the strongest, most extreme, broadest, or seemingly irrelevant aspects of an answer choice to see if those elements go beyond what is supported by the passage. Keep in mind that each answer is only as good as its worst elements.
More LSAT Help
📖 How To Approach Reading Comp on the LSAT
🎨 Getting Through Brutally Difficult Reading Comp Passages About the Arts
⚖️ Getting Through Brutally Difficult Reading Comp Passages About the Law
🧬 Getting Through Brutally Difficult Reading Comp Passages About Science
Final Thoughts
While the subject matter on any given LSAT will largely track what you’ve seen and practiced throughout your LSAT prep, it can be psychologically challenging and mentally draining. With that in mind, try to focus on easy ways out of a question or answer choice analysis. If you’re torn between two answers that seem largely similar, focus on the differences between answers and what’s wrong with all but one answer, not which one is doing the “good” things better. If you can find something indisputably wrong about an answer, the whole answer will be wrong. Therefore, these areas in an answer allow you to quickly eliminate answers and move on to bigger and better things.
Lastly, go dominate the November LSAT! While there’s (understandably) a lot of stress surrounding the test, they don’t want to throw anything new at you. So, bring things back to what you learned from your studies and be okay with educated guesses or calculated risks.
If all else fails, use your common sense and trust your instincts. Your subconscious will often gravitate towards the right answer or away from wrong answers even if you’re not able to fully explain why in the moment. It’s ok to go with your gut and come back later if you have time.
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