Standardized tests are an essential application necessity for some college programs – for yearning students, graduate understudies, and experts looking for accreditation alike. With assistance from SMU CAPE, achieve your test date with the information and abilities to perform taking care of business.

Graduate Test Prep

It esteems the quest for advanced education and need to enable you to accomplish your scholarly objectives. With direction from experienced teachers, you will get ready for your test with exhaustive surveys of every exam, rehearse openings, and procedures created by test planning specialists. Browse on-grounds or online choices to meet your timetable.

• GMAT: Graduate Management Admission Test
• GRE: Graduate Record Examinations
• LSAT: Law School Admission Test
• TOEFL: English proficiency exam

Details of LSAT: Law School Admission Test Prep at SMU

Gain admission into the law school of one’s choice with LSAT Test Prep from SMU official LSAT Prep Course. Master the skills needed to master the LSAT as well as take the test with the confidence of knowing that you prepared with Dallas’s leading LSAT experts.

The intensive LSAT prep program includes 30 hours of classroom instruction from experienced test prep teaching professionals. The easy to follow program utilizes proven techniques to simplify the LSAT. SMU Test Prep’s LSAT course uses only questions and materials from actual LSAT tests, so that you know your preparation is as close to the real thing as possible. LSAT textbooks, study guides, diagnostic tests, and expert instruction are all included.

Strategically scheduled courses ensure that one performs at his peak on test day. Choose from weekend as well as evening schedule options offered throughout the year in a set-up that prepares you for the LSAT test date of your choice.

Reasons to Prepare for the LSAT with SMU Test Prep:

1. Expert Instructors: SMU Test Prep’s instructors are well trained professionals. The instructors know the LSAT as well as the law school experience.
2. Proven strategies: SMU Test Prep’s program was developed by LSAT experts, who have years of experience writing LSAT test questions as well as preparing students for success.
3. Superior Study Guides: The LSAT Prep Course includes The Next Ten Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests – from LSAC, the official LSAT test provider as well as the LSAT Course Workbook, designed to supplement the classroom lessons.
4. Convenient Locations: SMU Test Prep programs are conveniently offered on the campus of SMU in Dallas, Texas as well as at SMU’s Plano campus.
5. The SMU Difference: The LSAT Prep program delivers the high quality educational experience you expect from SMU. At SMU, it takes your education personally.

Logical Reasoning topics include:
• Easy-to-apply strategies for solving each type of Logical Reasoning question appearing on the test
• Logical concepts, including inferences involving conditional statements and the key tool of counterexamples
• An overview of the most common fallacies found in Logical Reasoning Flaw questions
Analytical Reasoning topics include:
• A taxonomy of Analytical Reasoning game types and tips for setting up each type of game found on the LSAT
• Tips for quickly representing the game’s rules in shorthand, and for combining these rules into powerful “super rules”
• Tips for using answers to previous questions to quickly eliminate incorrect answer choices on subsequent questions
Reading Comprehension topics include:
• A full description of Reading Comprehension passage types
• A step-by-step approach to questions that concern the passage as a whole
• Identifying key words in the question that indicate how to use the passage to find the correct answer
• Recognizing the correct answer after narrowing the choices down to two

LSAT Course Plan
• Session 1: Introduction to the LSAT, Principles of Argumentation, Find Conclusion items, Analytical Reasoning overview, Ordering games
• Session 2: Ordering games, Statement Role items, Argument Evaluation, Explain/Resolve items
• Session 3: Ordering games, Grouping games, Weakener/Strengthener items
• Session 4: Grouping games, Flaw items
• Session 5: Grouping games, Assumption items, Analyzing Reading passages, Global Reading Comp items
• Session 6: Grouping games, Formal Logic Items, Local Reading Comp items
• Session 7: Grouping games, Inference items, Reading Comp review
• Session 8: Combination games, Matching Structure/Flaw items
• Session 9: Combination games, Strategy/Point at issue items, Reading Comp review
• Session 10: Analytical Reasoning review, Principle items, Reading Comp review

Contact Information:

Mailing Address
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Dallas, TX 75275-0275
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214-768-2273
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Street Address
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5539 SMU Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75206

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