Tutoring Question

[ChicagoHorn]

Hi!

I have been studying for the LSAT for about a year now. Currently, I am pt-ing at 161. I am registered for the August administration and am shooting for at least a 165 (of course a higher score would also be awesome). I have never used the bibles or taken a PowerScore course, but I have listened to most of the PowerScore podcasts and regularly read blog posts. I find these incredibly helpful. The podcast is funny and informative. It's one of my favorite free resources. The online digital prep company I used up until this point, utilizes a prerecorded course and prerecorded answers to all LSAT questions. I have found their content helpful, but I know I respond well to in-person instruction. However, I am realizing nothing compares to asking a person questions in real-time. I am considering getting a tutor through PowerScore to help me with the August administration. I would like that to be my last LSAT, so I can apply this fall. Is it worth getting a PowerScore tutor despite not having taken one of your classes or having read the bibles? Will I get the full value of the tutoring because I haven't been immersed in the PowerScore curriculum? Like I said I have self-taught (with the mentioned course) to a 161. Thanks in advance!

[Dave Killoran]

Hi!

I have been studying for the LSAT for about a year now. Currently, I am pt-ing at 161. I am registered for the August administration and am shooting for at least a 165 (of course a higher score would also be awesome). I have never used the bibles or taken a PowerScore course, but I have listened to most of the PowerScore podcasts and regularly read blog posts. I find these incredibly helpful. The podcast is funny and informative. It's one of my favorite free resources. The online digital prep company I used up until this point, utilizes a prerecorded course and prerecorded answers to all LSAT questions. I have found their content helpful, but I know I respond well to in-person instruction. However, I am realizing nothing compares to asking a person questions in real-time. I am considering getting a tutor through PowerScore to help me with the August administration. I would like that to be my last LSAT, so I can apply this fall. Is it worth getting a PowerScore tutor despite not having taken one of your classes or having read the bibles? Will I get the full value of the tutoring because I haven't been immersed in the PowerScore curriculum? Like I said I have self-taught (with the mentioned course) to a 161. Thanks in advance!

Hi Chicago,

Thanks for the question and for being a podcast listener! The great thing about tutoring is that it is fully tailored to you, and thus no matter how much you know about our general system, we can work with you. As I've also said many times before, if you are doing things differently than we might do them, but it's working for you, we aren't going to try to change that. As the old saying goes, if it's not broke, don't fix it

There's also an advantage here because your tutor will be able to see what you are doing that's not working, and then fill in those gaps with what we know works. you will also have the ability to discuss this alternate approaches and then decide if you want to use them. Picking and choosing what you want, as it were. This allows you and your tutor to optimally craft the best approach for you. I've tutoring thousands of people over the years, and it's never something where a student has to know how we do it beforehand to get high value out of the tutoring time.

Hopefully that gives you some reassurance that this wouldn't be a problem, but if not just let me know and we can discuss it in more detail. Thanks!

[ChicagoHorn]

Thanks Dave for answering my question!

This makes a lot of sense and based on what you and John have said on the podcast your answer is what I expected. However, it's nice to hear it directly from you! I filled out a tutoring inquiry and hopefully will begin sometime soon. I appreciate how you and John talk about investing in yourself because it's a framework I can closely relate to. I'm majoring in music in undergrad and pursued a lot of private musical instruction in high school from my job back then. That paid off handsomely in terms of college scholarships, and I hope the tutoring does the same.

By the way, when you and John say that the LSAT is a process-based test and analogize musical practice to LSAT studying, you're spot on. It could be the basis for an interesting parallel question.

Thanks again!