The main reason I took Blueprint’s LSAT online course is because I work all day, and the 8½ hour chunks my job takes out of my life limited how much time I could commit to my studies. I’m also pretty active outside of work – I write every day, have a couple of hobbies, and even enjoy sitting on my couch doing nothing every once in a while – which further restricted my study hours. In addition to taking up time in a general sense, all of that stuff limited the exact blocks of time I could devote to studying. I knew I could allot at least 10 hours per week to the LSAT, but I couldn’t guarantee that it was the same 10 hours every week. Because of all that, the flexibility of the online course was perfect for me. I could squeeze in a lesson video during lunch or pop off a few Logic Games after work, rather than sectioning off the same 4 hours every few days like a classroom course requires.
The other big reason the online course worked well for me is that I didn’t feel I needed to study all of the LSAT sections equally. On my diagnostic exam I missed 13 questions on Logic Games and only 2 on Reading Comprehension (1.77 million words of Ice and Fire really paid off). So with my limited study hours in mind, I felt that I should really focus on Games and skip Reading Comp altogether. This more or less paid off on exam day; I scored perfectly on Reading Comp and only missed 7 questions on Logic Games. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend everyone study exactly how I did; with more time and focus I definitely could have juiced that LG score even more. But considering the limitations I was under, the online course helped me a lot.
Note: As of August 2024, the LSAT will no longer have a Logic Games Section. The June 2024 exam will be the final LSAT with Logic Games. Learn more about the change here.
I also preferred the video lessons to studying with a book. It was helpful to have a person explaining the logic and building the diagrams. If Logic Games were easy to understand just by reading, I wouldn’t need to study in the first place; it’d all be on the test page in front of me.
It may not work for everyone, but I certainly found Blueprint’s online course to be extremely helpful.
