Are LSAT test questions decent alternatives for CR questions?

Question

I'm looking for a new source of CR questions. I have exhausted the OG question bank, and am trying to look for other sources.. how good are LSAT questions for this purpose?

madgmat2019 · Answer

Did you exhaust the verbal review too?

abajaj10 · Answer

I have about 150 questions left from that, but I'd rather save those for the 1.5 weeks before my exam (I plan to take it on the 4th of August). I tried other sources like Veritas and Kaplan, but I noticed that those questions were quite different from those in the OG/Verbal review and MBAPrep mock tests.

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  abajaj10 . In general, I advise people to steer clear of LSAT questions, since they often appear quite different from what you can expect to see on the GMAT™, not to mention that the ones that do overlap tend to be more nuanced or more dependent on formal logic. I am not the only tutor or Expert of such a mind. You might find  this thread  to be of interest. If you have exhausted the OG and wish to protect your Verbal Review questions, you may want to  search  for questions that do NOT appear in your edition of the OG, but perhaps were dropped in more recent years. Just check the tags at the top of the screen for a given question to see whether your edition of the OG appears. If not, then take a crack at the question. It is not that I think LSAT questions are poor in quality or are a waste of time, but there are far better questions available to study for the purpose at hand, those that were made for  this  exam in the first place.

To be honest, if I were you, I would get started on that Verbal Review. Just go slower than you have been. My guess is that you have been burning through OG questions left and right, and your plan is to do the same with the Verbal Review to whip yourself into shape just when you need to. But practicing more questions will not by default make you any better than practicing fewer. In fact, you will be much more likely to make the same types of mistakes over and over, since you need to take the time to sort out why you are making mistakes before you keep piling on more questions. Maybe work on just 5 questions to start. If you miss any, then do some research. Look up the question on this site and see if the community has shed any light on your particular misunderstanding. If not, just ask for help. The community wants to see another success story, believe me.

Good luck.

- Andrew

abajaj10 · Answer

Thanks for the advice, Andrew. I'll ration out the Verbal Review questions and additionally search for questions that don't appear in my OG. I'll let you know how things pan out.

Cheers,
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