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 the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a meaningful impact on students' test scores and readiness—all from home.

Benefits

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching 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.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot provides real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features to save prep time and enhance teaching impact.
• 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 relevant to 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 to address LSAT difficulty and score improvement plateaus.
• Identify concepts students commonly struggle with and explain material using multiple approaches tailored to individual learning needs and styles.
• Provide 1-on-1 online tutoring and accept on-demand tutoring requests when available.

Requirements

• Minimum LSAT score of 170.
• Proven methods for delivering substantial score increases.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.
• Deep knowledge of LSAT sections: Logical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, and Analytical Reasoning.
• Familiarity with LSAT difficulty and common student struggles, such as logic games and parallel reasoning questions.

About Varsity Tutors

Our mission is to transform learning by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and learning science to create personalized experiences. Through 1-on-1 online tutoring, students receive customized instruction tailored to 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.