The book gets an E for effort, but the questions are lacking in flavor from what youll see on an actual LSAT. For example, in many of the questions in the games section, you can solve the entire question by appealing to only one of the rules of the game. This is a rarity on the LSAT, and certainly doesnt make for a particularly hard quetion. Much more often, youll have to combine several clues, and the complexity of the deduction is what makes for a hard question.
Another example -- In the arguments sections, a key feature on the LSAT is the verbatim repeating of several key phrases from the passages to the answer questions -- it is this key rephrasing that greatly helps in choosing the right answer among several answer choices that appear to be of similar quality. This book is, in some cases, much looser with how it repeats phrases, which loses the LSAT flavor, and also makes the arguments questions hard, but not for the same reason that the hard LSAT questions are hard.
The techniques given in the book are all valid, but on the other hand, theyre not earth-shattering, and the likely audience of the book (those that would already score at least in the mid 160s or higher) probably already have a good grasp of them.
This book, therefore, probably wont get you from the 165-170 range to the near-180 range. Youre better off getting one of the Official LSAT books with explanations (these are good because it gives you insight into how the test-makers think) -- or Kaplans 2 LSATs explained. Even though a top-flight test taker wont miss more than a dozen or so questions in the first place (thus limiting the set of explanations that actually would tell you something you didnt already know in the first place), it gives you a set of explanations for the tough questions from which you can derive tactics for getting these quesitons right on test day.
