Take-Home — Unscored
LSAT Writing, practiced seriously.
LSAT Writing is unscored, but it is read by every admissions committee that reviews your file. Treat it like a section, not an afterthought.
What the current LSAT Writing prompt asks
The current LSAT Writing task is Argumentative Writing. You receive a debatable issue, two short perspectives arguing opposing positions, and 15 minutes of pre-writing time followed by 35 minutes to draft your response. Your response must argue for one position, address the strongest counterarguments, and be defended with reasoning and examples.
What admissions committees actually look for
The bar is not literary. It is legal. Committees want to see that you can identify the strongest form of an opposing argument, engage it on its merits, and defend a position under time pressure. A short, clear, well-structured essay outperforms a long, elegant, meandering one every time.
A structure that works
- State your position in one sentence at the end of paragraph one.
- Give your two strongest reasons, one per paragraph, with a concrete example each.
- Steel-man the opposing view and rebut it — this is the single most differentiating move.
- Close with a brief restatement of why your position holds after that rebuttal.
Practice prompts
Our prompt library includes twenty modeled prompts across public policy, ethics, and institutional design. Each prompt is timed and reviewed against a rubric closely aligned with the official LSAT Writing scoring dimensions. Once your writing feels steady, return to the LR question-type drills or a test-day simulation — LSAT Writing is unscored, so it should never crowd out scored-section prep.
Round out your prep