LSAT Tutor

About the role

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform connects thousands of students nationwide with online LSAT tutors. As a tutor, you'll enjoy flexible scheduling, competitive pay, and the opportunity to impact students' test scores and readiness—all from home.

Benefits

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week for fast and reliable compensation.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform—no commuting required.
• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• AI-powered Tutor Copilot provides real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features to save prep time.
• We handle logistics; you invoice for sessions, and we manage payments.

Responsibilities

• Teach advanced legal reasoning, including Logical Reasoning (argument structures, assumptions, inferences, flaws, strengthening/weakening), Reading Comprehension (dense passages, comparative reading), and Analytical Reasoning logic games (sequencing, grouping, matching).
• Explain diagramming techniques, formal logic, and LSAT-specific argumentation patterns for law school admissions.
• Teach logic game setup, notation systems, argument core identification, and passage annotation.
• Guide students through conditional reasoning, sufficient/necessary conditions, game rule combinations, and systematic elimination of wrong answers.
• Emphasize pattern recognition in question types and connect LSAT skills to legal thinking and case analysis.
• Adapt instruction using official LSAC practice tests, game type drills, argument flaw categorization, and timed sections.
• Identify concepts students commonly struggle with and explain material using multiple approaches.
• Adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles with strong communication and an engaging teaching style.

Requirements

• Minimum LSAT score of 170.
• Proven methods for substantial score increases.
• Deep knowledge of LSAT sections and ability to teach strategic logic and game analysis.
• Familiarity with LSAT difficulty, common student struggles (e.g., logic games, parallel reasoning), and score improvement plateaus.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.

Ways to connect with students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring: Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
• Instant Tutoring: Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.

About Varsity Tutors

Our mission is to transform learning through advanced technology, AI, and learning science to create personalized experiences. Through 1-on-1 online tutoring, students receive customized instruction to achieve their goals. Our platform matches students with the right tutors to foster better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, or Puerto Rico.