Test Preparation & Subject Tutoring > Law School Admissions Test Preparation

LSAT The Law School Admission Test:

Information taken directly from LSAT website: http://www.lsat.com/

An examination administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) that attempts to measure logical and verbal reasoning skills.

• Administered four times a year, it is a required exam for all ABA-approved law schools. The test has existed in some form since 1948, when it was created in order to give law schools a way to judge applicants uniformly.
• The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day, standardized test administered four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world.
• All American Bar Association-approved law schools, most Canadian law schools, and many other law schools require applicants to take the LSAT as part of their admission process.
• In the US, Canada, the Caribbean, and some other countries, the LSAT is administered on a Saturday, except in June, when it is generally administered on a Monday. For Saturday Sabbath observers, the test is also administered on a weekday following Saturday administrations.
• Many law schools require that the LSAT be taken by December for admission the following fall. However, taking the test earlier-in June or September-is often advised.
• Some schools place greater weight than others on the LSAT; most law schools do evaluate your full range of credentials.

Test Format

• The exam has five 35 minute multiple choice sections
• One of the 35 minute multiple choice sections is unscored
• Four of the five sections contribute to the test taker's score.
• The unscored section, commonly referred to as the variable section, typically is used to pretest new test questions or to preequate new test forms. The placement of this section will vary.
• A 35-minute writing sample is administered at the end of the test. LSAC does not score the writing sample, but copies of the writing sample are sent to all law schools to which you apply.
• Raw scores are converted to a scaled score from 120 to 180, with the median at about 151. When an applicant applies to law school, all the scores in the past five years are reported.
• The registration fee for the LSAT is $123. If you meet certain criteria, you may qualify for an LSAC fee waiver. Late registrants must pay an additional $62.

What the Test Measures:

The LSAT is designed to measure skills considered essential for success in law school: the reading and comprehension of complex texts with accuracy and insight; the organization and management of information and the ability to draw reasonable inferences from it; the ability to think critically; and the analysis and evaluation of the reasoning and arguments of others.

The three multiple-choice question types in the LSAT are:

1. Reading Comprehension Questions
   These questions measure your ability to read, with understanding and insight, examples of lengthy and complex materials similar to those commonly encountered in law school work. The reading comprehension section contains four sets of reading questions, each consisting of a selection of reading material, followed by five to eight questions that test reading and reasoning abilities.
2. Analytical Reasoning Questions
   These questions are designed to measure your ability to understand a structure of relationships and to draw logical conclusions about that structure. You are asked to make deductions from a set of statements, rules, or conditions that describe relationships among entities such as persons, places, things, or events. They simulate the kinds of detailed analyses of relationships that a law student must perform in solving legal problems.
3. Logical Reasoning Questions
   These questions are designed to evaluate your ability to understand, analyze, criticize, and complete a variety of arguments. Each logical reasoning question requires you to read and comprehend a short passage, then answer a question about it. The questions test a variety of abilities involved in reasoning logically and thinking critically.

Want more Info? Get in touch with us — we can help!