TestMasters

TestMasters is an LSAT preparation company for students heading to law school. It sells one LSAT course in three versions (live online on Zoom, self-paced online, and in-person classes at select locations) and adds private LSAT tutoring and law school admissions consulting on top. The site says all three versions deliver the same academic content, so the real choice is between schedule, price and how much live teaching a student wants.

The course was created by founder Robin Singh, who according to the site holds a world-record twelve perfect LSAT scores and has personally taught over 10,000 students in live class settings. The company says that in the past 35 years it has helped hundreds of thousands of students raise their LSAT scores.

The three course formats

Live Online, $1575. Students from across the US and Canada work through the lessons in an interactive online classroom on Zoom. Each lesson is taught by an expert instructor with at least five years of TestMasters teaching experience, and classes run on fixed dates listed on the course schedules page.

Self-Paced Online, $1275. This version starts anytime. Students learn from Robin Singh through videos that feature him teaching in live classroom settings, with the same round-the-clock academic support as the other formats. A self-paced student quoted on the site, a high school math teacher, describes the rhythm: she watched the videos for a lesson ("usually about three hours"), then completed the homework, and only after completing the homework could she move on to the next lesson. She split the videos into an hour here or there during busy workweeks.

Classroom, $1875. In-person courses run at select locations, with an expert instructor leading each lesson and unlimited access to the online resources. Locations sit on a separate schedules and locations page. The instructor directory shows faculty who have taught in California, Florida, New York, DC, Virginia, Michigan and Canada, among many other places.

What every student gets

The site lists the same package for every enrollment:

• a curriculum developed by Robin Singh
• 15 in-depth lessons, each followed by extensive homework
• written and video explanations for thousands of official LSAT questions
• 18 full-length digital practice LSATs that mirror the official LSAC format
• an LSAT search engine for finding and reviewing any question in the course
• lessons taught by an instructor who scored in the 98th percentile or higher on an officially administered LSAT
• 80 hours of HD video course content, filmed in live class settings with each student fully miked
• targeted drills and quizzes on the skills underlying the test
• detailed score reports that record the exact time spent on each question
• 24/7 personalized academic support

The score reports go further than a raw score. After each practice test they sort questions by type, flag where a student changed an answer choice or went back to a previous question, show the percentage of test takers who picked each answer (overall and within score ranges), let the student sort by difficulty, and log time on each question down to the tenth of a second.

The explanations are the part the company leans on most. It says they teach students to think like the test writers and to learn from their own mistakes. The course also includes the reading comprehension and logical reasoning questions from past exams that LSAC has made publicly available, organized by the company and reachable through the search engine. One student quoted on the site mentions interactive and competitive vocabulary quizzes, a list of every type of flawed reasoning the LSAT has tested, and a members-only website with extra classes.

The LawHub Advantage requirement

The official questions inside the course sit behind an LSAC subscription. The FAQ says every student needs a LawHub Advantage subscription from LSAC ($124) to access them. Students can buy it directly from LSAC or add it at enrollment, in which case TestMasters remits the fee to LSAC on their behalf. Budget for it on top of the course price, whichever format you pick.

Instructors and academic support

Every TestMasters instructor has scored in the 98th percentile or higher on an officially administered LSAT, and the company publishes its instructors' score reports so prospective students can verify them. The FAQ describes a screening and audition process followed by at least 100 hours of training, and the site says only a tiny fraction of applicants are selected. Robin Singh refines the course with a research and development team whose members include Jeff Benjamin (180), Hailey Evans (180) and Natalie Storey (180).

The instructor directory gives each teacher's record. Dorothy Moneymaker has over 20 years of TestMasters teaching experience and has taught over 5000 students in southern California; Anthony Meni has 19 years and over 2750 students in DC, Virginia and Maryland. Several instructors list law degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, NYU and UChicago.

Support runs through the Online Resource Center. A student who needs help with a specific question or with how to study can write in at any time, and the site says an instructor will respond within 24 hours, often in less than an hour. One self-paced student quoted on the site says the staff "provided personalized responses in minutes to any question I had."

Private tutoring and admissions consulting

Private tutoring pairs a student one-on-one with a TestMasters LSAT instructor, who works through authentic LSAT questions, watches how the student reacts in real time and builds a study plan from that. The FAQ says tutoring can be bought on top of any course or on its own, by the hour or in 10, 25 or 80-hour packages. Tutoring prices are not published; the site takes requests through an inquiry form.

Admissions consulting covers law school applications, from the start of the process to polishing a personal statement, and is also handled by inquiry.

What students report

The testimonials page pairs each review with a before and after score, and the site explains that the "before" figure comes from a pre-course practice LSAT or an official LSAT, while the "after" figure is from an officially administered LSAT taken after the course. Marissa Medine (Duke) went from 161 to 176 after a summer of live classes six hours a week with instructor Anthony Meni. Vincent Barnes (University of Florida) moved from 163 to 180 in the live online course, and Susan Yaster (Johns Hopkins University) went from 149 to 168 on the self-paced version. These are reviews the company selected, not a published average, and the site offers no score guarantee or refund terms.

Several reviewers describe the workload frankly. One calls the class intense, with "homework of biblical proportions," and others credit the homework structure for keeping them on track.

Who it suits

TestMasters fits a law school applicant who wants a structured, homework-heavy LSAT program with a lot of official practice material and detailed explanations. The self-paced version suits working adults who need to study in short blocks; the homework gate between lessons gives them some of the accountability of a class. The live online course suits students who want an instructor and a fixed schedule without travel, and the classroom course suits those who live near one of the locations and prefer to learn in a room.

It is a full course rather than a light refresher, priced from $1275 before the $124 LawHub Advantage subscription, and the volume of homework assumes students can put in serious weekly hours. The pages cover the LSAT only, so a student preparing for another admissions test needs a different provider. For a student committed to the LSAT and willing to do the work, the combination of 18 practice tests, analytics-heavy score reports and instructors with published scores is a strong offer.