1. I am looking for a fundamentally new approach to tackling the LSAT. Thus, my aim is to enroll in a course that doesn't use the traditional strategies that have been around for decades. To what extent are Theoryworks' curricula like these courses?

Here is the short answer to this question: We will teach you what works. Our instructors teach the exam for a living, which means they have a sophisticated understanding of what is going to be on the exam and how it will challenge you. We may teach a novel way of answering Flaw in the Reasoning Questions compared to more mainstream companies, for example, but that is incidental to our primary goal.

To do well on the LSAT, our students know they must approach the exam in a way that is effective (so as to be able to arrive at the correct answer choice) and efficient (to be able to do so quickly).

From the beginning, we focus on helping students develop fundamental skills and abilities, not cheap techniques that offer short-term gains at the expense of long-term improvement. When we do teach specific strategies or techniques, they act to supplement—or compliment—a student’s fundamental skills, not replace them.

2. I’m having difficulty determining which curriculum is right for me. Can you help me decide?

Of course! This is actually one of the reasons why we offer a free diagnostic trial session for all prospective students. The diagnostic session allows us to get a first-hand look at your objective level of proficiency in the exam. This allows us to give you more reliable advice about whether—or how—we might be able to help you achieve your goal.

It also gives you an opportunity to experience what a session with one of our tutors is like and to assess whether we are a good fit for what you are looking for.

3. Do you offer payment plans?

We understand it can be difficult to afford good LSAT prep. To help make paying for our services more financially accessible, we started offering payment plan options for our private tutoring packages in January 2022. If you can’t find the information you’re looking for on our website, please feel free to contact us for additional details.

4. Do you offer a score guarantee?

We do not offer a score guarantee because we cannot guarantee whether a student will follow through on their commitment to studying outside of our sessions/classes. How well you do on the day of the exam largely depends on how much time, energy, and effort you are willing to invest in improving before that day arrives. We have helped countless students achieve extraordinary results on the LSAT, including perfect scores of 180, and by far the most reliable indicator of test-day performance is a student’s study ethic.

That being said, however, both our one-on-one private tutoring and Small Class courses cover multiple retakes. If you’re committed to improving, we promise to be committed to you.

5. How many tutors and instructors do you have?

At the moment, we only have three tutors, all of whom teach the LSAT professionally on a full-time basis. All our tutors are required to have a score in the 99th percentile on file, which means they must have score of a 172 or higher on an actual, officially-administered exam administered on or before November 2019.

We do not hire tutors who teach the exam "on the side" like most test-prep companies, which we think makes the world of a difference. Our goal is to provide a specialized boutique service for those who are ambitious and serious in improving their performance on the LSAT. At Theoryworks, your instructor will not only be good at the LSAT, they will be good at teaching the LSAT, which is a very different thing.