LSAT Tutor

About the role

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform connects you with thousands of students seeking online LSAT tutoring nationwide. 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.
• We handle logistics; you simply invoice for sessions and receive 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.
• Identify and address common student struggles with logic games, parallel reasoning, and score improvement plateaus.
• Use multiple teaching approaches to explain concepts and adapt to individual learning needs and styles.
• Provide personalized instruction through 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.
• Deep knowledge of LSAT sections and ability to teach strategic test-taking techniques.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt instruction to different learning styles and student needs.

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