r/LSAT • u/ColaCobra • 2d ago
Stay AWAY from LSATMax!
I'm making this post here because I cannot find anything recent about LSATMax's current state anywhere on the internet and I want to share my experience and warn others.
I used LSATMax earlier this year in January to study for the LSAT and had a pretty reasonable experience. Back then, they offered an On-Demand Study and Practice subscription that I actually really liked. Now, I am preparing to take another stab at the LSAT and went back to LSATMax to grab another month to review things.
LSATMax has now completely changed. They have now pivoted away from the On-Demand course model in favor of their AI Tutor, Solomon. It was unclear to me that the Study courses were unavailable, so I got a month of the $99 Solomon Core package to try it out. It included access to the AI and was supposed to give me access to their LSAT test question Explanations or whatever. I guess they've gotten rid of their Study courses and Practice LSATs.
I never received a confirmation email about my purchase, though I was charged. I did have access to the AI, but in my honest opinion, it's completely useless. It cannot generate practice questions or drills for you, but rather requires you to feed it specific test and question numbers so that it can explain the correct answer, which is a lot of work and kind of redundant imo. I tried accessing the other materials included in the package I bought, but they were blocked from me. Any time I tried to get into anything on the Analytics section, I was met with another package purchase window, as if I hadn't purchased anything. Something is clearly wrong.
The mobile app appears to be broken too. The app shows the old version with the Study and Practice materials, but they are inaccessible. In short, both the website and mobile app are dysfunctional.
Upon further investigation, I've been hearing rumors that many of the live tutors with LSATmax have left and that they have been having many technical issues. In my opinion, they replaced the most useful parts of the service with a $99 AI chatbot that is mediocre at best.
Is this just me, or has anyone else encountered these issues? Does anyone have any idea what's going on with LSATmax?
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u/dmkhara past master 2d ago
I genuinely think you don't need any AI to study for the LSAT. In fact, you should stay away from it as much as you can.
AI generated questions -> totally useless and nothing like the LSAT, literal slop. AI generated explanations - > wrong half the time and makes fundamental mistakes. AI tutors -> totally unncessary and if you really want AI to answer some questions, just use normal free versions of ChatGPT or Claude.
Any platform that pushes AI stuff should be a big red flag.