LSAT and Law School Admissions Blog

LSAC, the producers of the LSAT, has increased prices for the most recent individual PrepTests. Available on the LSAC website, the official PrepTests (actual LSATs from past administrations) cost $8.00 each for any test from December 2012 (PrepTest 68) back to June 2004 (PrepTest 43).

It's that time of the year: LSAC Law Forum time! Don't know what an LSAC Law Forum is? You should! Law forums are events held in various major cities around the country where prospective law students have an opportunity to talk personally with representatives from ABA-approved law schools. Almost every ABA-approved law school sends representatives to these events, which are held in hotels and conference centers. These reps have information and documentation about their schools, and are also available to talk to students and answer questions.

If you're a prospective law applicant, law forums are a great opportunity to get your questions answered, and get information on the schools you're interested in. They are an incredibly useful tool. However, they are most useful if you take the time to think about what you'll do at the forum, and how you'll approach the experience.

Here are some tips.

[Read Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 and Part 8 of this series here.]

Before we continue with Part Nine of our examination of common flaws found in LR questions on the LSAT, let’s once again take a brief moment to review why it’s so important to understand these argumentative errors. Here’s how I began the first post in this series, where we looked at Source Arguments:

Considering the vast majority of LSAT Logical Reasoning questions will have an argument in their stimulus, and the vast majority of those arguments will contain some sort of flawed reasoning, I thought I would take a moment to address a variety of the flaws that tend to appear with some frequency. In a series of posts I’ll examine a number of common mistakes that authors on the test make, which should prove useful for both Flaw in the Reasoning questions (a type that accounts for about 15% of all LR questions), as well as other question types that require you to respond to argumentation.

Granted, most Logical Reasoning questions with conditional reasoning won’t require you to negate the conditional relationships in them. You will certainly need to know what the contrapositive is, and—if there are multiple conditional relationships—you need to know how to form a conclusion by combining them into a chain (aka the “law of syllogism”).  Occasionally, in Justify questions, you will need to establish a logical link between the premises and the conclusion. And in Flaw questions, you will need to know how to describe in abstract terms the most common logical fallacies involving conditional reasoning.

When searching for LSAT tutoring these days, students have a choice: they can either choose to meet their LSAT tutor in person (in the real world!), or they can choose to meet their tutor online, using an e-learning platform. But, how are the two approaches different, and which is the best approach for you?

The LSAT—India is the test designed by LSAC, specifically for use by law schools in India. The next test will be administered on May 19^th, in 15 cities across India. As discussed previously, the test is strikingly similar to the American version with regard to content: each test has four scored sections, and just like the US version, these include one Logic Games section, one Reading Comprehension section, and two Logical Reasoning sections.

It’s that time of the year, guys and gals. It’s deadline season. Time to get all your ducks in a row and get everything where it needs to be. To help you out with this process, here are the ABA-approved law schools with June deadlines. As a reminder: Double-check all these dates with the schools and LSAC. If you see any errors or changes, you can let me know by commenting on the post, or sending me an email – admissions (at) powerscore (dot) com.

Yes, it is true. LSAC announced recently that they will begin making the LSAT available in Spanish, but only if you take the exam in Puerto Rico and are applying to law school in Puerto Rico.

The LSAT is hard enough without the added aggravation of unavoidable distractions, which is why most of you will try to take each practice test under perfect testing conditions: you turn off your cell, close the office door, and hope no one decides to test the fire alarm system in your building for the next four hours. These precautionary measures are understandable: according to new research by Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab, interruptions make us 20 percent dumber. To put that in (LSAT) perspective, a 20-point decrease in your raw score could mean getting 155 instead of 165! Here’s what the researchers at Carnegie Mellon did: 

LSAT tutoring shouldn't be like the picture to the right, where some drill sergeant yells at you! Instead, tutoring should provide a warm and friendly learning experience, where you feel comfortable being as honest as possible, and you trust your tutor completely. At its best, private LSAT tutoring provides a fluid and seamless learning environment, where the tutor knows how you learn best, what you need to improve upon, and how to get you there as quickly as possible. With that in mind, let's summarize some of the pros and cons of working with an LSAT tutor.