By Ellen Cassidy. The #1 bestselling LSAT prep book on Amazon*, where thousands of students begin their LSAT journey.
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Actually fun to read. Builds real skills with smart drills.
Methods that consistently raise LR (and RC) scores.
Step-by-step system to solve questions with confidence.
Five years of development, testing, and iteration. The Loophole assumes you know nothing about how to reason logically and builds your skills one by one, far beyond the basics. Here’s what’s inside.
Just one drill often accounts for more score improvement than many LSAT prep systems produce across all three sections. Translation has taken students from a plateaued −10+ per Logical Reasoning section to −1.
“I went from consistently getting 15 wrong on a section to 1 wrong.”
Every correct answer on the LSAT is either powerful or provable. When you’re only ever looking for power or provability, the answer choices become seriously simpler.
“Powerful-Provable. No doubt.”
You can predict the answer to most Logical Reasoning questions without even knowing the question type. CLIR makes the correct answer way more predictable.
“The CLIR. It just makes you so much faster.”
Many questions that seem insurmountably difficult aren’t actually that hard. Hyper-Skipping wipes the cached misread, minimizing time, anxiety, and wrong answers on a second pass.
“Now I’m finishing in 30 minutes, saving five full minutes for the hard questions.”
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The Loophole: Digital Edition is hosted on Superhuman Docs (formerly Coda), an interactive document platform. I chose it over a traditional ebook because it lets me build working drills and quizzes right into the book, tools you actually use as you read. Like any ebook, your copy is licensed to one reader.
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On Loophole Online, the Tandem Plan walks you through the book and the platform side by side, a 21-day checklist of what to read, what to watch, and what to practice. Every day ends with a reflection so the lessons stick.
Day-by-day chapter pairings, read, watch, practice in orderBuilt-in drills, lessons, and Camo review on the platformA daily reflection prompt to lock in what you learned
Ellen wrote the book, literally. The Loophole in LSAT Logical Reasoning is recommended across r/LSAT and has shipped tens of thousands of copies.
But Ellen isn't just an author. She still tutors students 4-10 hours a day, but there's only one of her. She built Loophole Online so every student could get her complete methodology, not just the few who can book her calendar. Same strategies, same frameworks, same results, now at scale.
Her mission: teach the world to read and think.
About EllenThe Loophole's mentality was incredibly refreshing. I was no longer focused on a goal score, but just doing the best I could! You armed me with better strategies and gave me the much-needed confidence boost to pull through when I retook the LSAT! It really felt like I had a friend cheering me on. Because of your book, I just got into my dream law school, UNC, with an amazing scholarship!
I paid $950 for Princeton Review and it felt like a bunch of mumbo jumbo. THIS is so easy to understand and already has taught me more in 25 pages than the Princeton Review did in 3 months. Her systems of translation and the CLIR have REALLY helped me understand what it is I'm reading. If you're struggling with LR, READ. THIS. BOOK.
Before I finished reading Chapter 1 of The Loophole, I knew two things: 1) I need to find Ellen, and 2) my LSAT studying journey is approaching its end.
I have used the LSAT Trainer, 7Sage, Powerscore, and Blueprint. Per the headline, my LSAT journey has, until 2 weeks ago, sucked. I am only on Chapter 8 out of 12 and I have already seen a huge improvement in my LR score. I was missing 12-15 before reading it and I'm already down to a -6. If you're struggling with LR, READ. THIS. BOOK.
It is truly a remarkable book, not only for its strategies but also because your tone and delivery make the reader believe that they can beat the test — at least, you made me believe that I could do it.
I often felt like other test materials were implicitly brushing me off when I didn't understand answers or why I'd missed a question, and often had awkward or forced understandings of the LSAT, whereas your book felt like you'd engaged deeply with the test and students' challenges to offer strategies, frameworks, and common failure modes.
Using The Loophole has been the first time, I think ever, that I feel as though I'm working through an actual, comprehensive, no-guesswork-involved approach that guarantees results, rather than aspires for them.
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