Burton Method / Tutor Field Guide
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Internal tutor reference · v1.0

Teach the method.
Not just the answer.

A practical, source-anchored reference for Burton Method tutors: every reusable teaching move, the definition behind it, the course example that makes it stick, and a cue for running it live.

Open the field guide
Built from the 104-lesson transcript sweep and the team’s transcript-derived technique and example catalogs.
A Burton-style session

Find the real blockage.

1Student explains what they thought the task was.
2Tutor names the missed move, not just the missed answer.
3Student uses the move in their own words on a fresh example.
the recurring patternsimplify → identify the job → use the right tool → explain it back
0source-linked teaching moves
104published course lessons surveyed
0course example anchors cataloged
5core tutor-loop checkpoints
The concept library

Find the move. Then teach it cleanly.

Search by phrase, question type, or the student behavior you’re seeing. Open any card for the tutor cue and exact source trail.

The weekly tutor loop

How the guide fits a real session

The course is the curriculum. The tutor’s job is to diagnose where the student’s process broke and get them using the right Burton-style move.

01

Review the work

Start with the actual lesson, drill, or miss. No generic agenda.

02

Locate the blockage

Ask what the student saw, expected, and did. Identify the missing process move.

03

Teach one tool

Use the concept card’s definition, source example, and tutor cue—not a competing framework.

04

Make them drive

Give a fresh, low-stakes application. The student must say or do the move themselves.

05

Lock the next rep

Turn the insight into the next TBMApp action, drill, or review task before they leave.

Receipts, not vibes

What this guide is grounded in

This is a tutor reference, not a replacement course and not a source for reproducing licensed LSAT material.

Primary working sources

The entries synthesize the team’s transcript-derived cataloging work. Each card links back to a concrete document and, where available, a video/lesson anchor.

01
Sammy’s LR Toolbox
Definitions and question-type moves across V80–V147
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02
Sammy’s LR Decision Trees
How tools sequence by question type
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03
Sammy’s Made-Up Teaching Examples
Recurring, low-stakes examples and teaching analogies
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04
Sammy’s LSAT Question Walkthroughs
Real-question teaching progression; paraphrased here
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05
Technique Catalog + Coverage Audit
104-lesson transcript sweep, RC, timing, and study-process coverage
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Editor’s standard

Every entry separates three things tutors routinely blur together: the concept, its course example, and the live tutoring cue. That makes it possible to reteach the method without accidentally freelancing a new one.

Source integrity note

The public-facing guide paraphrases course instruction and does not reproduce proprietary LSAT question text. Source labels identify the local course-analysis files and video anchors used to produce each summary.