Are Counsel's questions like the real LSAT? Go check.

It is the first thing anyone should ask about practice questions written by anybody other than the test maker, and you should be suspicious of a confident answer. So here is ours, along with the means to check it yourself.

We don't print real LSAT questions, and neither should anyone else

Official LSAT questions are LSAC's copyrighted material. We do not reproduce them, we are not affiliated with LSAC, and LSAT is their registered trademark. Every question in Counsel is original. That is a limitation and we would rather state it than have you discover it.

It also means we cannot settle this argument by putting a real question next to one of ours. What we can do is send you to the real ones.

Go take an official question first. It's free.

LSAC gives away official LSAT prep, including real questions from real exams, through LawHub and Khan Academy. It costs nothing and it is the actual test, not anyone's impression of it.

Do that first. Then come here and do ours. We are aware of how that reads — we are pointing you at authentic material before showing you our own, which only makes sense if we think ours holds up next to it. That is the bet.

What we publish about our own questions

Counted across every Logical Reasoning item in the bank. These are properties of our questions, checkable by anyone with an account, not claims about how they compare to LSAC's.

• 100% carry an explanation for EVERY answer choice — including the four you did not pick, and including the one you got right.
• 100% tag every wrong answer with the specific trap it was built to exploit, by name: the reversal, the extreme, the out-of-scope, the plausible-but-unsupported.
• 100% have exactly five choices, matching the exam's format.
• 100% carry a takeaway — the transferable point, stated so it applies to the next question rather than only this one.
• 17 Logical Reasoning question types, mixed toward the frequencies the published exam structure implies rather than toward whatever is easiest to write.

The second one is the part we would point at. Most banks tell you the answer. Knowing why each wrong answer was written — and that it was written to catch a specific mistake — is the thing that transfers to a question you have not seen.

What we will not claim

• That a human LSAT expert has reviewed every item for fairness. That review has not happened. Our automated gate checks every question for a single defensible answer before it ships, and that is a different and weaker thing.
• That our questions are indistinguishable from official ones. Nobody can honestly claim that about material the test maker did not write.
• That practicing here will produce a particular score. No prep company can know that, and any number attached to that promise is marketing rather than measurement.
• That our difficulty labels are calibrated to real test-taker performance. They are authored estimates, and we are working on replacing them with data from actual attempts.

Everything in that list is something we could have quietly implied. The reason not to is simple: you are about to spend months studying, and the first thing you need from a prep company is to know which of its claims are measured and which are decoration.