Worksheets and flow charts
These are printable pages from Skip the LSAT? They're free, and you don't have to sign up for anything to get them. Each one shows the rules as I checked them in September and October 2026, so look at Updates before you rely on one.
The five-year plan worksheet
This is the worksheet from Chapter 8. It has five parts: where you're going, what each bar says, your route, your plan year by year, and a test of the plan. Chapters 7 and 8 walk you through the seven steps behind it.
Print it and tape it to the wall by your computer, so every day you look at it and know exactly where you're going.
You can type into it before you print.
Two flow charts
Each chart follows one route on a single page, from the first step to the day of admission, with no LSAT. The people in them are made up. The rules are real, and each chart's sources are in the book's notes.
Dana is a teacher with a bachelor’s degree in education. She emails D.C. before she enrolls, earns a UK law degree online, and then an LL.M.
Download (PDF)Marcus has a bachelor’s degree in business. He studies for four years at a California-accredited online law school.
Download (PDF)A chart shows that a route exists. Whether the route is a good idea for you depends on the pass rates and the limits on where the degree lets you sit, and those are in the chapters around each chart.
What's in the book
The book has four more flow charts: Alabama through a non-ABA law school, law office study in California and in Vermont, and Washington State with a UK law degree and an LL.M. It also has the four maps that sort every state and D.C. into three groups. You can look up one state at a time on the bar rules map.
See where to buy →Want more room to plan?
The companion workbook, Skip the LSAT? Companion Workbook: The Rutledge Guide to Law School Readiness, gives the five-year plan more room, and it has a chapter for working out your own finances on paper.
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