I read hundreds of reviews before settling on this series for my LSAT prep, and they come mostly to the same conclusion about what this is: the gold standard.I consider it to be so very much more. I received it two days ago and am already making significant progress through it. I decided to not take any pre-test or so much as go through a whole exam before starting. I don't want to setup any self-fulfilling prophecies about how I will or won't perform, before I have a solid theoretical understanding of the exam, its content, and how to take the exam. I do keep finding that when something is expected to be difficult to understand or get right (an example question or part of a passage), I almost always find it way easier than I'm expected to, but I try not to dwell on those unavoidable encounters.I don't want my LSAT prep to be one long, uphill battle as is almost always the case in any type of prep course or with a tutor, and I also don't want to overestimate or underestimate my ability with any portion of the exam before learning all I can about said section or content, since natural brilliance is almost always the first to go out the window under stressful circumstances such as exam day itself. I am finding these books to be exhaustive, truly excellent “bibles” on knowing everything you need to in order to address each section as effectively as possible (or so I hope I can look forward to being the result).I find the content of material value in these books to be thus-far divided into a couple of categories: 1) the structure, objectives, and constraints of the exam section being discussed, 2) what the LSAT test writers are thinking or attempting to achieve, 3) what you as the test-taker must do or not do, 4) important observations or ideas about the general test-taking, the exam, or the exam's contents, 5) examples of ideas or observations that can be made about exam content and how it can be interpreted or practiced for, and 6) objectives the book itself has and will either later or immediately address (ongoing indexing). I am finding it helpful to fully-highlight or highlight-underline these categories respectively as 1) purple, 2) blue, 3) green, 4) yellow, 5) pink, 6) orange. I fully-highlight most-important content and highlight-underline important supporting information. I then further black-pen-underline really crucial points.Tearing apart my study materials in this way is how I found always worked best for getting excellent grades in undergrad, and I fully recommend it for these books. It already makes it extremely easy to go back through what I've already read. If you simply try to read these books cover-to-cover without breaking them down similar to this, I imagine they will be of far-lesser use to you. They will also be much-more-excruciating to get through.These books are extremely large, and every page makes plenty of extremely-crucial points about what is being discussed, and anyone would be foolish if they believed all of the important info would stay with them after only being read once. You will have no idea what to look for going back through, if important text isn't visually set apart from filler (useless) text and categorized within itself. Most of all, I simply can't imagine how boring and endless it would be otherwise to just sit and read an endless series of test-taking books like these. It's not Harry Potter, I regret to inform you.I definitely recommend the trilogy over the individual books. Your strengths need constant reinforcement alongside addressing your weaknesses, and if you only focus on your weaknesses, that psychological negativity will also completely corrode your test-taking process overall. Not reinforcing your strengths will also deprive you of opportunity to perform even better and less-carelessly with them and get even more questions right in your stronger sections.I would highly recommend these books in order to take charge of your own test-taking instead of expecting a class or tutor to give you everything you need. I would also suggest viewing any class or tutor you still decide to work with as being a useful addition to this series instead of the other way around. At the end of the day, the only understanding of this test that has value to you is your own understanding, no one else's. This book goes to great lengths to provide you with all the understanding you need.Furthermore, in absence of something like this, most people will fall in a practice for the sake of practice approach. Even if you review every single practice question you got wrong, you will still have just spent material time practicing getting it wrong and convincing yourself that getting that question wrong had value (which it didn't). Why not first understand the exam and its content and learn methods for addressing it, so that when you do begin to practice, you're practicing getting questions right?