At the onset of COVID in early 2020, I quit my job in the fintech sector in Hong Kong to move back home and take the LSAT. I wanted to transition into the legal field as I had grown weary of a field where market upheavals, economic imbalances, and even political policies could all drastically affect your work product. The law, I felt, was a field that had a semblance of orderliness to it, a field where one’s knowledge and experience can act as a stoic bulwark against uncertain headwinds.
From March 2020 till October, I fought the good fight. I struggled daily with the LSAT, studying, improving, stagnating, and agonizing through the entire process. After many trials I had a sudden realization. Practice does not make perfect on this test, I needed to systematically upgrade my own framework and habits if I were to have a shot. I eventually found what worked for me and ended up with a 180 on the LSAT.
I chose not to return to my old job and started offering tips and advice to friends and their friends who happened to embark on the same journey as I. Word got around and soon, I had a few dozen students and friends, all with the same fears and aspirations as I had a mere month ago.
I ran seminars, daily RC classes, and blind review sessions. For students whose first language was not English, I assigned daily readings by Fuller and Geertz. Nearly two years went by in a blur, and I had worked with over 200 students, over half of whom scored over 170, and nearly a third above 175.
Some of my former students began working for test prep companies, and in the summer of 2022 a large international education company approached me with a book deal. We could not agree on who would retain the IP rights, and I decided to go at it on my own.
I began to organize my teaching notes from the past two years, re-did all the questions from PT1 to PT90, all of which I’ve encountered at least a dozen times, either alone or with a student. But this time, I deliberately slowed down, identifying the patterns behind each question and categorizing them according to the traps LSAC had laid out for us.
The end result are LR Perfection and RC Perfection, two books geared towards intermediate/advanced test takers trying to break into the 160s or chasing that 170+. I understand that only 100,000 people take the LSAT every year, and only a minority of that can be called “intermediate” or “advanced” students. But as my LSAT journey comes to an end, I wanted to leave behind something useful and accessible. So I told myself, if I reached just one person, introducing them to a new spectrum of ideas, a new way of thinking about this exam, and a new framework to approach these incessant questions, that would be enough.
