best way to study for the lsat

[lawana]

Hi everyone,
what is the best way to study for the lsat?
I have all 3 bibles, should I work on them simultaneously, or should I first focus on LG and LR (together) and once I'm done with the two bibles, focus on RC ? I'm also planning to start with Manhattan prep, once I'm done with pw.
I heard pw. gives you a good foundation for the LSAT, but Manhattan prep. will help you attack the LSAT in a faster way. Please let me know what do you think of that!

But it is very important for me to know, if I should study all 3 bibles simultaneously or not. the self-study guide pw says to study all three bibles together. I'm a little stress over this because I have already started with LG (I'm in chapter 5) and LR (I'm in chapter 11). So now I'm confuse wether I should start with RC, and follow the study guide or just finish LG and LR first.

thank you in advance.

[Eric Ockert]

Hi Lawana!

The self-study guides online are probably your best bet for how to move through the Bibles. Don't worry if you are a little off in the recommended sequencing of each book right now. In fact, much of the skills you have picked up in the LR Bible will be applicable to your work in RC, so the fact that you are so far in LR could actually be pretty helpful. That being said, I would spend a bit of time with the RC Bible as soon as you can to play a bit of "catch-up". After a couple of chapters, you can start balancing your prep across the three books as you lead up to the test, following the self-study guides a bit more closely. Honestly, you will probably find it's kind of nice to move back and forth on the sections to keep the prep fresh and new. Sometimes, too much work in one area over a short time can get kind of stale.

As for the Manhattan Prep, I can't say too much about their material directly. But what I can say is that generally mixing different materials from different prep companies is a bad idea. You will end up learning multiple approaches for the same types of problems, and that tends to make things more difficult. It's easy to mix up the approaches or combine them. So without saying which company is "better" than another (I'd obviously be biased anyway), it is generally better to just pick one and stick with it. That will give you a simpler, more straight forward approach for the test.

Hope that helps!