LSAT Tutor

About the role

Join the Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform, where thousands of students nationwide seek online LSAT tutors. 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.
• 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 tailored to individual learning needs.
• Provide 1-on-1 online tutoring and accept on-demand tutoring requests when available.

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.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.
• Familiarity with LSAT difficulty, common student struggles, and score improvement strategies.

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.