atey2010 wrote:
I would highly recommend for you to use LSAT CR and RC materials to study for GMAT. It was really helpful to me. I gone from a low 30's (before LSAT) to a low 40's on GMAT verbal. Also, I no longer have any timing issue with GMAT verbal once I did my LSAT. I usually finished 10 mins early and I always have time to read the RC passage twice. Yes, there are easy LSAT question b/c inorder to get a 97 - 99 percentile on a GMAT(minimum for Ivy League Law school), you need to get atleast 89/101 questions right, therefore LSAT need to give you some easy questions or else test takers will prob get brain damaged if you have to do GMAT CR or LSAT CR 95 percentile level questions for 4 hours under tremendous pressure.
CR: I would recommend for you to do only LSAT CR (inference, assumption, weakened, and strengthen question) and ofcourse RC. There are many more LSAT CR question types than GMAT such as method of reasoning and parallel reasoning. you don't need to know that. LSAT language is much more complicated than the GMAT especially on the difficult question. I would suggest to borrow an LSAT prep book from your friend who took an LSAT class. Those prep book will compile atlest 200 CR questions for each LSAT CR question type (like 200 inference questions, 200 assumption questions). Those are amazing for you.
As for RC, LSAT RC is more complicated than GMAT. For anyone who doubt this, try looking at LSAT DEC 09, 3rd RC passage about sculpture and art history. LSAT is hard b/c of the wording of their question and answer choice. The devil is in the detail. The passage is usually not too complicated, its the answer choice and questions that can be extremely tricky. It is very subtle compare to GMAT. I used to have prob with GMAT RC, but after I finished LSAT RC, I consistently got a perfect score on RC on every practice test. GMAT RC questions are much more forgiving than LSAT. I would recommend anyone who struggles with RC to read the economist article actively. Meaning that you should always notice subtleties in author tone, author can say things like "this scientist ambitious project to decode human genome is under scrutiny by some critics". When you see the word (adj) ambitious, you should instantly be aware that this author likes this scientist, since he describe the project as ambitious. Then you should know the main point of the passage. Lastly, know any distinction or shift in authors narrative. (some critics say this, other say that, both of them are wrong, or I agree with the first critics). This comes up all the time on LSAT. I'm sure GMAT too. If you can do this, I'm sure you'll be golden for GMAT CR and RC.
I have compared LSAT powerscore CR Bible to GMAT powerscore CR Bible, every single word is the same, except for some chapters, which are specific to LSAT only.