LSAT Private Tutoring 

(If you’re just looking for current LSAT tutoring rates, you’re welcome to click here, but we strongly encourage you to read the rest of this page before you think about hiring us. Your call, though.)

This is the page where we’re supposed to tell you that we’re magical tutors who can teach you a bunch of “tips and tricks” to raise your LSAT score to a 176 in, like, three weeks -- GUARANTEED!

But hollow guarantees have never been our style -- and miracles simply don’t come that easily on the LSAT, no matter how badly we all want them. If you’re looking for tricks or easy shortcuts to reach your goals, then we’re not the LSAT tutors for you. But if you’re struggling to achieve your LSAT target score -- or if you can’t even figure out why you can’t reach your LSAT goals -- then you might want to keep reading.

A brutally honest approach to LSAT tutoring

As LSAT tutors, our job is to figure out what, exactly, holds you back from your score goals – especially if it’s not what you ever would have expected. We never spend our tutoring sessions mindlessly churning through random LSAT problems, and we certainly don’t force our students through an inflexible, prewritten LSAT curriculum. 

Instead, we uncover the fundamental causes of our students’ underperformance on the LSAT, and often discover that their real problems aren’t quite what they want to hear. Almost every test-taker would love to believe that they just need to learn a few more logic games diagrams or a nice time management trick, and their LSAT problems will be solved. 

But reality is usually more complicated than that, unfortunately. Sure, sometimes the problem is something simple and fixable, such as a shaky grasp of certain Logical Reasoning question types, or a flawed approach to note-taking on Reading Comprehension, or a lack of practice with the most common LSAT logic games. 

Learning some simple rules of thumb or generic processes may help a bit, but LSAT students’ underlying issues are often subtle, and rooted in ingrained mindsets and behaviors. Maybe you’re sloppy and rush through easy questions, or you stubbornly obsess over the last two answer choices, or you’ve never really learned how to understand the author’s purpose when you read an LSAT Reading Comprehension passage. Maybe you fixate on details and miss the big picture when you read, or perhaps you can’t stop yourself from skimming when you’re rattled by test-day pressure. 

 Or maybe the core problem isn’t specific to the LSAT at all. Maybe you’re suffering from test anxiety, or your unstable diet leads to an unstable performance, or you don’t sleep enough, or you simply need to get better at eliminating distracting thoughts on test day. 

We could go on. The bottom line is that we’ll help you build a deeper understanding of what REALLY holds you back -- even if it’s not something you ever would have expected. Our most significant breakthroughs come from digging inside our students’ minds, and discovering the habits and processes that lead to unnecessary errors — and then figuring out how to change those behaviors.

We succeed with the toughest LSAT cases because we’re not afraid to be unorthodox. If you’ve already taken every LSAT test-prep course in existence, we’re probably the tutors who can figure out exactly why those courses haven’t helped you achieve your goals.

Your LSAT weaknesses might not be what you want to hear

If you’ve already started studying for the LSAT, you probably recognize that accurately completing an LSAT section in 35 minutes is a HUGE challenge. Maybe you’re one of the unicorns who can calmly and methodically answer all ~25 questions quickly, but if you’re like the overwhelming majority of LSAT test-takers, you’re forced into the classic LSAT tradeoff: do you sacrifice accuracy by hurrying to finish each section? Or do you focus on accuracy until you start running out of time, and then guess on the remaining questions? 

Becoming a more efficient test-taker certainly can help. In our LSAT tutoring sessions, our #1 goal is to help students develop consistent, repeatable approaches to each question type, with the goal of eliminating wasted time and effort. For example, we teach techniques that help students efficiently cut to the heart of the author’s argument, or seamlessly dissect the structure of a logic game, among many other things. Those processes aren’t always easy to implement, but when a student is able to execute our methods with 100% consistency, they generally waste very little time on the LSAT.

But here comes the bad news: LSAT scores also depend strongly on your fundamental reading abilities. Even if we fully optimize your approach to the exam, your LSAT score might still suffer if you’re an imprecise reader who struggles to understand the EXACT meaning of a passage or sentence. And sadly, your level of reading precision tends to be somewhat “baked in” by the time you reach adulthood. It certainly is possible to become a stronger overall reader, but it’s a slow process that can take months or even years. 

Similarly, the LSAT explicitly tests your reading speed. If your goal is an elite, 170+ LSAT score that would unlock a seat at Yale or Harvard or Columbia, your reading speed will also need to be elite. And reading speed is a very difficult thing to improve during a few weeks or months of LSAT tutoring.

We know: nobody (ourselves very much included!) wants to believe in LSAT score “ceilings”, and we desperately want to tell you that anybody can achieve a 170+ LSAT score with enough expert tutoring. But unfortunately, some LSAT test-takers with shaky reading skills will struggle to achieve elite results, even with help from the best tutors on the planet.

With all of that in mind, here’s our promise to our LSAT students:

• We’ll leave no stone unturned in our efforts to optimize your approach to the LSAT’s three main question types. For many of our students, these process improvements are enough to achieve elite, Ivy League-level results. 

• If anxiety or other test-day performance issues are holding you back, we’ll provide industry-leading resources to help you perform at your peak during your LSAT exam.

• If your fundamental reading accuracy and speed aren’t strong enough to get you to your goal, we’ll provide a 100% honest diagnosis from the very start, allowing you to make fully informed decisions about how to proceed with your LSAT studies and law school goals.

In other words, we’ll be completely honest about what we can do for you, and what it might take to achieve your LSAT score goals.

How Online LSAT Tutoring Works

The whole point of one-on-one tutoring is that we don’t follow a rigid curriculum, and everything we do is based on each student’s unique situation. We rely heavily on data from your LSAT score reports, practice exams, and homework assignments, along with proprietary assessments to help diagnose test-day performance issues as needed.

Put another way: our first goal as LSAT tutors is to understand your mind better than you understand it yourself. We’ll take a deep dive through your previous LSAT results, we’ll assign a pile of diagnostic homework, and then we’ll watch you in real-time to see how your brain works. 

Once we understand exactly what’s driving your LSAT results, we’ll create a plan to address your issues. After each session, we’ll assign a personalized homework list and meticulously track your results, with the goal of helping you build new habits that will get you to your target score. Every step of the way, we’ll adjust our improvement plan based on your progress.

In other words, everything we do is customized to address the quirks of your individual brain, and no two students ever have the same experience with our LSAT tutors. 

Because everybody faces their own unique challenges, we don’t generally expect – or even want – LSAT students to commit to a certain number of sessions before they start tutoring. Unless our Test Anxiety Program is a perfect fit for you, we won’t offer you an LSAT tutoring “package” in advance, since most students have no idea how much tutoring they’ll really need when they first start the process. Most of our students just pay for one session at a time. 

So you’re welcome to fire us anytime if you’re not making progress after you start tutoring with us, and we won’t sell you anything that you don’t actually need.

About Our Private LSAT Tutors

Because we understand that a rigid, pre-written curriculum won’t do much for most of our students, we only hire tutors with the skills to deeply understand students’ minds and find unique solutions to their LSAT struggles. We’re successful only because our tutors are broad-minded, flexible, emotionally intelligent, and creative, in addition to being great at taking standardized exams themselves. 

As a result, we end up hiring interesting people. Our team includes a novelist with more than 15 years of test-prep tutoring experience, another novelist who narrowly avoided becoming a doctor instead, an accomplished surfer with a 790 GMAT score, a former Army captain and West Point graduate, a Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking pastor, a former semi-pro rugby player, and an ex-professional dancer with perfect scores on the GRE and GMAT (and an impressive track record as an eater). 

We hire fewer than 2% of applicants who want to work with us, and we inflict a cruel audition process on potential tutors. Our founder painstakingly trains our tutors personally, and we all collaborate frequently to make sure that we continuously improve as teachers. We all use the same materials and employ the same philosophies, and we’ve all trained — hard — to become nimble in our approach to tutoring for every exam we offer.

Sure, we all have different personalities, but we work tirelessly to be similarly great at our craft, and we’re as unified as a collection of LSAT, GRE, and GMAT tutors possibly can be.

For more on the unique personalities on our team, check out our tutor bios.

No salespeople or “academic advisors” -- we’re just tutors

When you contact us for tutoring, you’ll never hear from a salesperson. The only people who will ever see your intake form are LSAT tutors, starting with our founder, who is the only person who ever answers tutoring or admissions consulting inquiries.

We’ll be 100% honest from the start if we don’t think we can help, or if we don’t think that your goals are realistic. That may or may not be what you want to hear -- but we really don’t want your money unless we’re confident that we can help you improve your LSAT score.

So from the very start, be prepared for plenty of honesty, with no hollow guarantees or other sales-y silliness.

Hey, wait. If you’re such great LSAT tutors, why are you called GMAT Ninja?

We won’t sugarcoat the fact that we aren’t marketing geniuses: our founder started using the GMAT Ninja name as something of a joke back in 2009, when he offered GRE and LSAT tutoring, but happened to live in a particularly GMAT-hungry area of New York City. He didn’t think that the GMAT Ninja name would actually stick. 

But here we are, well over a decade later. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ironically enough, our experience with the LSAT predates the GMAT Ninja name. We have placed LSAT practice questions at the heart of our GMAT verbal lessons since 2008, when our founder’s future wife began the law school application process, and asked her (ruggedly handsome) future husband for LSAT tutoring. (Things worked out: she scored a full scholarship to her top-choice law school.)

We quickly recognized that two of the LSAT’s three main question types (Reading Comprehension and Logical Reasoning) also appear on the GMAT, and immediately incorporated heavy doses of LSAT questions into our students’ GMAT and GRE training. One of our students – now a proud Harvard Business School graduate – even completed 4,000 LSAT practice questions as part of her studies.

Anyway, please don’t let our name fool you: we’ve taught LSAT lessons for more than a decade – albeit somewhat quietly – and our tutors understand the exam every bit as well as the GMAT.

Just “showing up” for LSAT tutoring isn’t enough

Another important thing to keep in mind is that the LSAT isn’t really a “knowledge test”, and you won’t get very far by trying to memorize a bunch of things. Instead, the LSAT tests a variety of deeper skills: your inductive and deductive reasoning ability, your reading precision and speed, your ability to hold your nerve under time pressure, and your ability to make quick and accurate decisions. Many of these are subtle skills, often built over the course of your lifetime.

The upshot is that improving your LSAT score generally feels nothing like studying for, say, a typical undergraduate course. If you just show up and “go through the motions”, that isn’t going to do much for you on this particular exam. To really maximize your LSAT score, we’ll push you to read and think and process information in new ways. And that can be uncomfortable, but it’s the only way to achieve real breakthroughs on this exam.

So if you want a painfully honest (but usually very polite) LSAT tutor who will kick you to the curb if you aren’t fully dedicated to the process, give us a shout. We’re really nice people in real life and we rarely enjoy kicking anybody to the curb, but it’s not fun for us to sit around and babble about the LSAT while you waste your money on us. 

Again, there’s no magic to any of this. Hiring an LSAT tutor is like hiring a personal trainer: if you want your LSAT brain to get big and buff, you need to pump some serious mental iron outside of our tutoring sessions. If any tutor tells you that a gargantuan LSAT score increase is easy, he or she is lying through their teeth.

It certainly may be possible to raise your LSAT score by 10 points or 20 points or more, but it will require hours and hours of carefully focused practice on an almost-daily basis — and a willingness to change the fundamental ways you read, react, and think on a standardized exam. We’ll make you work hard – and work efficiently – to achieve your LSAT goals. 

Think of tutoring as a partnership: we’ll provide structure, passion, and expert guidance, but we’ll expect you to provide a whole lot of time, energy, and introspection, too.

Our tutors are currently located in Colorado, California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and Scotland. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, 100% of our students have chosen online tutoring, but if you’re interested in in-person tutoring in any of our locations, just let us know when you contact us. 

If you’re ready to get rolling, please tell us your story here, and we’ll give you a 100% honest assessment of what we think we can do to help. And if we think your goals aren’t realistic, we’ll be honest about that, too.

Thank you for reading this far, and good luck with your LSAT and law school ambitions!