I found this to be the best of the "overall" LSAT prep books. It was definitely more thorough and more realistic (as far as matching in difficulty to the real LSAT) than the Kaplan prep book, which I also have. Like others have said, this book devotes a lot of space to the logic games section, which is a plus since this is the section which, though it is the most intimidating, is in my opinion the easiest to gain concrete strategies with which to solve problems. Though I have to say that I found the Powerscore Logic Games Bible more helpful in terms of really honing my skills in this particular section, I would say that this is a good comprehensive book and gave me a solid base of skills from which to figure out my weaknesses and refine my studying. There are plenty of exercises, and I found the explanations of answers to be comprehensive and helpful. I think this book is a good base starting point for self-studying, but if you're having problems on particular sections, I would recommend the Powerscore prep books, and of course the books of past official LSAT tests. Once you have the strategies down, nothing beats practice.

I purchased this about 3 weeks ago and have seen my interest in the LSAT grow. Being somewhat hesitant to purchase any particular guide without consultation, I took a chance in NOVA'S Master the LSAT. The results thus far have been very positive. The games are presented in a very comfortable format, with reviews and warm-ups before the actual comprehensive coverage of material. I cannot speak for the rest of the book, but from what i've covered so far, the book is very engaging and straightforward. Great Buy.

I bought this title expecting to see something different, but I got the same thing as Master the LSAT (with Software and Online Course). Waste of my money, and badly labeled for someone wanting to buy the best study books for the first time.

This book is immediately more effective in teaching you about the LSAT question types. It goes into a LOT of detail on the basics of formal logic which is a tremendous boon when it comes to attacking the accursed logic games and the arguments sections.

I recommend this book over the Kaplan book and the Princeton book.

I bought this book based on the positive user reviews. I have spent seven hours working through it already. The language and instructions are easy to understand, and I appreciate that. However, I worked through the introduction to the logic games section and found a mistake. They use an example where there is a condition listed and then they give a "correct" answer to a question although that answer directly violates the prior condition. It makes me nervous that a book that is supposed to help me do well on the test has a mistake that I found, and I haven't been doing this for very long. I'm buying a different study aid!

Most LSAT courses don't even touch reading. Nova gives it a big chunk of space. Aside from reading, I strongly recommend this if you wish to plug in the holes of your prep course. It's wonderfully written and the best LSAT book.

Great book. I started with this book as the foundation of my LSAT study. It has good strategies and a good bit of practice. Don't use it alone, though. Be sure to practice the old LSATs - time can be an issue for some of us and practice the real tests can help. You might also want to get a seperate practice book, but try to find one that uses actual questions. I had one book specifically for the analogy questions.

I used this book to help prepare for the LSATs, and I do recommend it for its clear, logical explanation of the reading comprehension section. I tested just before the change in format to comparative samples, so you may want to purchase an updated version of Nova's material to get reading comp material that is most relevant to the new test section.

Notwithstanding the benefit I derived from reading the book, nothing holds a candle to Powerscore's test prep materials. If you can only afford (financially or time-wise) to do one or two books, your time is much better spent by purchasing Powerscore's Analytical Reasoning Bible and Powerscore's Logical Reasoning Bibles. Those two books alone would give you the tools you need to ace 3 out of 4 sections. You can use Nova and other prep books to help solidify reading comp, but I wouldn't rely on them for test prep in isolation.

I purchased this book on the strength of the two featured five-star reviews and the seemingly comprehensive approach taken by the author. The book's advice ranges from decent to downright awful. The reading comprehension section would be very helpful if you score poorly in this section on practice tests, but if your Reading Comp scores are average the techniques outlined here will be of little help.

The Logic Games section is, in my opinion, abysmal. The procedure for diagramming the problems is unrealistic and an abject waste of time. For the Logic Games section, PowerScore's Logic Games Bible details a method which is far superior to Nova's and will get you real results - even if you're completely hopeless at the Games section like I was.

As for the Arguments section, Nova won't exactly hurt you, and the practice problems they provide may be helpful - but once again, other books (PowerScore and Kaplan) are much better. Many of the practice problems in this book by Nova are "simulated" and I found them to be off the mark most of the time when it comes to emulating actual LSAT problems.

The "two complete LSAT tests" in this book are over a decade old, and while not completely useless, won't help you nearly as much as practicing on the most recent tests (40 - 48).

If you're thinking of buying this, please save your money and put it towards the PowerScore books, which are very pricey but worth it both for the "battle plans" they teach you and for the fact that ALL of their sample problems come from actual LSATs.

I purchased this book on the strength of the two featured five-star reviews and the seemingly comprehensive approach taken by the author. The book's advice ranges from decent to downright awful. The reading comprehension section would be very helpful if you score poorly in this section on practice tests, but if your Reading Comp scores are average the techniques outlined here will be of little help.

The Logic Games section is, in my opinion, abysmal. The procedure for diagramming the problems is unrealistic and an abject waste of time. For the Logic Games section, PowerScore's Logic Games Bible details a method which is far superior to Nova's and will get you real results - even if you're completely hopeless at the Games section like I was.

As for the Arguments section, Nova won't exactly hurt you, and the practice problems they provide may be helpful - but once again, other books (PowerScore and Kaplan) are much better. Many of the practice problems in this book by Nova are "simulated" and I found them to be off the mark most of the time when it comes to emulating actual LSAT problems.

The "two complete LSAT tests" in this book are over a decade old, and while not completely useless, won't help you nearly as much as practicing on the most recent tests (40 - 48).

If you're thinking of buying this, please save your money and put it towards the PowerScore books, which are very pricey but worth it both for the "battle plans" they teach you and for the fact that ALL of their sample problems come from actual LSATs.

I don't really have a lot of time to write this review but I wanted to write one before I lost interest in the topic. Let me start by saying I'm so glad I also bought a Kaplan book or else I would have no idea what was going on, this book simply did not provide any time efficient means to solve analytical logic problems (the one people seem to have the most difficulty solving). The book only comes with a single prep test, this was not enough for me, and as for the examples they provide in the book and cd-rom they are logically flawed! Now perhaps you're thinking that I'm just bad at the analytical problems but I assure you these flaws are very basic and I am shocked that they weren't caught before publication. Also, the cd-rom does run on windows XP which is a shock considering it appears graphically to be from the early nineties. I normally would overlook the graphical shortcomings of the cd-rom if there were any useful features on it what-so-ever; there are no such features. There are many better books out there in the same price range... if you've tried the best I'd suggest you get this book because it most definitely is the rest.

I don't really have a lot of time to write this review but I wanted to write one before I lost interest in the topic. Let me start by saying I'm so glad I also bought a Kaplan book or else I would have no idea what was going on, this book simply did not provide any time efficient means to solve analytical logic problems (the one people seem to have the most difficulty solving). The book only comes with a single prep test, this was not enough for me, and as for the examples they provide in the book and cd-rom they are logically flawed! Now perhaps you're thinking that I'm just bad at the analytical problems but I assure you these flaws are very basic and I am shocked that they weren't caught before publication. Also, the cd-rom does run on windows XP which is a shock considering it appears graphically to be from the early nineties. I normally would overlook the graphical shortcomings of the cd-rom if there were any useful features on it what-so-ever; there are no such features. There are many better books out there in the same price range... if you've tried the best I'd suggest you get this book because it most definitely is the rest.

This was the first LSAT prep book I bought. I bought it because the organization of the book looked pleasing to me, and after flipping through it a bit I thought the author seemed to use honest, clear, and concise language. Both of those impressions turned out to be true (for the most part), but that wasn't enough to make it worth purchasing.

The only decent section, in my opinion, is the RC section. And it's only decent. I've heard Nova referred to as "THE Reading Comp book", and that's just not true. The tips Kolby gives are good, but by no means exhaustive. You can find much of the information online, from free sources.

The logic games section was not helpful to me. The games Kolby crafted himself (games not from previously administered LSATs) were obviously dissimilar to the real thing. Working these was a waste of my time. The strategies for identifying and solving specific types of games were gone through a little too quickly, and the explanations were not thorough enough.

The logical reasoning section was not helpful to me either. No real complaints here, because I didn't go through the whole section because it was turning out to be a waste of time. I can see how it would help some people, but honestly I wasn't expecting much after the games section, and I didn't get much.

I have since bought the PowerScore LG and LR Bibles, and I highly recommend them. They are 10x better than Nova.

The bottom line is that the book is not worth the purchase price. I wish I had looked into borrowing it from my local library or the career services office on my campus (I later found out that they had the e-book available). If you are interested in this book, I won't tell you NOT to buy it. I can see how someone might benefit from it. I just think there are easier, more efficient, ways to study for the LSAT. I won't be recommending Nova to anyone.

This book is written with the premise in mind that the LSAT isn't beatable (i.e., there aren't tricks that will give the test-taker the keys to unlocking perfect scores every time), but with some time and effort anyone can learn techniques that will allow them to score much better than they would otherwise.

The book begins by showing the reader how to attack the logic games, arguably the most difficult part of the test for those who have not been exposed to any sort of formal logic training (and even then, the time limits add an additional challenge). The book shows the readers how to break the games down and different techniques for the different sorts of games. While I believe that there are better techniques, I also believe that the methods proposed in Master the LSAT can be useful if the reader buys into them and practices using them on a regular basis. Overall, I can't complain much about Master the LSAT's treatment of the games section, because I imagine that it will produce results if used properly (I can only guess on that, because I chose to use a different set of techniques).

Next, the book shows the reader how to attack the Logical Reasoning sections of the LSAT. The book demonstrates how to identify common traps laid out by the test writers in addition to showing some simple techniques. I have real qualms with Master the LSAT's treatment of the Logical Reasoning section. I felt like I was overloaded with information but that I wasn't shown how to use it. To make matters worse, the examples provided were often made up by the author of the book and were so cut-and-dry that it was easy to see what he wanted us to see, while on the other hand, it became much more difficult and convoluted to actually apply what had been suggested on real LSAT problems. And the real kicker is that when I tried to use Master the LSAT's techniques on practice tests, I saw very little (if any at all) improvement in my results.

Finally, the book shows the reader how to attack the Reading Comprehension section. I am surprized to see so many reviewers give this section positive reviews, because I found it to be the least useful. I couldn't help but feel that the author was attempting to fill up pages. In a nutshell, the author spends this section trying to persuade the reader to stop their reading to make lots of notes; to mark key words and phrases, etc. Perhaps I am an extreme case, but when I tried to do what the book suggested, my scores fell. The Reading Comprehension section had always been my strongest section, and the suggestions of Master the LSAT turned it into a weakness by turning something that I did naturally into a mechanical process.

I am giving this book, Master the LSAT, three stars because it is still a reasonably good source for self-study. On the other hand, it is far from the best. I found PowerScore's Logic Games Bible to be a more solid strategy for the Games section. As for the other two sections, the tools provided by an actual LSAT course gave me the best results. I would also like to add that self-study is still a good way of preparing for the LSAT. My preparation was at least 80% self-study (I took a prep course a year and a half ago, but didn't begin seriously studying until six months ago), and I managed to bring my practice scores up from the 43rd percentile on the first practice test that I took to high scores in the 99th percentile. I am still waiting on my results, but I expect them to fall in the high 90th percentile. Don't be afraid of self-study; it can pay dividends, despite what anyone else may say.

Most of these off-the-shelf 1-inch thick books on LSAT prep are usually very general in nature and marginally helpful.

This book seems like it was written in the 1990s and just had the copyright and cover updated every year. It uses nomenclature that no longer appears on the LSAT (e.g. I, II, I or III) and includes phrases like "The following are from a recent LSAT" and then proceeds to give a question that was used in 1993.

The LSAT has changed over the past decade and most authors have not updated their books and this is no exception.

The book actually includes 4 LSATs (#2, #7, #8, #9).

This book does however contain one outstanding feature: reading comprehension. The book probably has the best reading comprehension section out of all of the LSAT books I looked at (I surveyed at least 4-5 at the book store). And for a section that accounts for more points nowadays than logic games, it's a section that's hard to find good advice on. So, if you're looking for a good section of reading comprehension, this book is about as good as you're going to find outside of a prep course.

I recently got this book and started going through it. There are several instances of typos or where the answers section actually gives the wrong answer. For example, page 144 answer to question 5, it says: "The route in choice (E) directly connects either M or N to K, but in the chart there is no road directly connecting M or N to K. Hence this is impossible, and the answer is (E)." Obviously, that makes no sense. The correct answer is C. This is just one example of several. In addition, the sample tests on the CD would be much more helpful if they didn't include the questions in the book. So, when you take the test, you're answering questions you've already answered before, and so it doesn't really give an accurate score. I have bought Powerscore's Logic Games Bible and their other Bible for logic arguments, in addition to the "Next 10 actual LSAT." I have a feeling these will be much better.

Ok I took the LSAT last year and scored a 140, I knew I messed up, I used the Kaplan books, so I bought the Nova book and took the test again scoring a 168. Vast improvement, and this book helped me solve the logic games, and the reading comp is the best on the market.

The online course was not useful at all. It is the online version of the book. The questions are exactly same which is no help if you've completed all the problems in the book. The Games strategy was convoluted and impractical compared to Powerscore.

I only use this book for extra practice. I, also, found one of the Games answers questionable.

I haven't had too much of a chance to read through this book but I have thumbed through it and think it will be very helpful as I study to take the LSAT! Wish Me Luck!!

I tried to do self-study for the LSAT and researched the market for the best LSAT book. So I bought this book because IT IS the best LSAT self-study book, but it did not improve my score.

I think if you are scoring below 150, like me, then you should definitely take a full length live course. No amount of self-study will help, unless you can pick up ideas just by reading and dont need someone to explain it to you.