Having trouble figuring out what you should read to really beef up your LSAT RC skills? Here are some places where you can start:
Editorial and Opinion: The Editorial or Opinion pages of any major US Daily newspaper, such as The New York Times, the Washington Post, or the LA Times.
Law, Politics, and Economics: Magazines such as Legal Affairs, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Economist.
History:The Journal of American History.
Science: Magazines such as Scientific American and Popular Science.
The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
For more information about each profiled institution, be sure to check out the school’s website.
UC Irvine School of Law, the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years, opened its doors to its first class in August 2009.
UCI Law seeks to create the ideal law school for the twenty-first century by doing the best job in the country of training lawyers for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession. The Law School’s innovative curriculum stresses hands-on learning, interdisciplinary study, and public service. Interdisciplinary study is also at the heart of UCI and there are several concurrent degree programs that students may wish to consider.
In June 2011, UC Irvine School of Law was granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association. Provisional accreditation means that graduating students can take the bar exam in California without taking a qualifying “baby bar” exam.
“We are extremely pleased to have fielded such a high-caliber student body,” said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who is also one of the top constitutional scholars in the nation. “Along with a highly rated faculty, this allows us to be considered among the best law schools in the country from the very start,” he said.
Test-taking season is upon us! To get in the mood, take a look at this article on Wall Street Journal: Toughest Exam Question: What Is the Best Way to Study? While the article is geared predominantly towards SAT/ACT-takers, most of the suggestions in it can prove useful to someone preparing to take the LSAT. With a month left until the February 2013 examination, here’s how you should tailor the recommendations in the WSJ to your study regimen.
If you’re applying this fall, you should already be thinking about your applications. And, if you’re already thinking about your law school applications, you may already be researching schools, and quickly becoming overwhelmed with the many, many different websites and publications out there that give out (sometimes not-so-reliable) information.
For that reason, I thought it wise to give you my list of law school applicant “must-have” resources. These are the sites that I regularly visit as I help students with their applications and they are also the sites I recommend that students become familiar with as they consider their law school path. It is not an exhaustive list by any means, but it is a great starting point for those of you considering applying to law school.
When answering Logical Reasoning questions, should you read the question stem before reading the stimulus? No! Understanding the stimulus is the key to answering any question, and reading the question stem first tends to undermine the ability of students to fully comprehend the information in the stimulus. On easy questions this distraction tends not to have a significant negative impact, but on more difficult questions the student often is forced to read the stimulus twice in order to get full comprehension, thus wasting valuable time. Literally, by reading the question stem first, students are forced to juggle two things at once: the question stem and the information in the stimulus. That is a difficult task when under time pressure.
There are other reasons for why you should read the stimulus first. What are they? Check out this article on our LSAT Free Help Area to find out!
The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
For more information about each profiled institution, be sure to check out the school’s website.
The School of Law at the University of California, Davis, is a national center of legal learning characterized by the scholarly excellence and ambition of its faculty and student body, as well as an abiding commitment to being a diverse community serving the welfare of its constituents and the world around it. It is fully accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The school is housed in a newly expanded state-of-the-art building, King Hall, named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of his efforts to bring social and political justice to disadvantaged peoples.
The Davis campus, a major research university consistently among the country’s top 20 in research funding, is a little over an hour from San Francisco, and 15 minutes from Sacramento, within easy reach of major recreational areas such as Napa, Carmel, and Lake Tahoe. The campus occupies 3,600 acres within the bike-friendly and charming college town of Davis.
The law school’s idyllic surroundings and close proximity to the Bay Area and the state capital create abundant opportunities for a well-rounded educational and professional experience. The campus offers a full range of excellent graduate and professional programs.
We’re coming up on 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 and Canada 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.
How do you register for the LSAT? To register for the test, visit Law Services, the administrators of the test. While registering for the LSAT, you will come acorss CAS, the Credential Assembly Service. This data collection and standardization service is required for application to most schools, and more information can be found here.
With approximately six weeks left until the June 2012 LSAT, you might want to start thinking about a study plan if you’re planning to take that administration. Six weeks is a bit on the shorter side as far as study plans go, but it’s doable provided you can devote at least 15-20 hours/week towards LSAT prep. Be realistic – if you are a full-time student or work full time, chances are you cannot spend every waking hour doing logic games or logical reasoning questions. Nor should you have to; although the number of hours you spend training is surely important, what matters even more is how you train.
So here’s what you should be doing, assuming that (1) you aren’t taking a prep course; and (2) you have no prior exposure to the test.
The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
For more information about each profiled institution, be sure to check out the school’s website.
Founded in 1834, Penn State Law is the oldest law school in Pennsylvania and the fifth oldest in the nation. The law school embraces the university’s mission to improve the lives of the people of Pennsylvania, the nation, and the world through legal teaching, scholarship, and service.
Our law school is an engaged, diverse, and multidisciplinary intellectual community that challenges students to research, think, and act like lawyers—and to ascend to new heights of academic excellence. Through an intensive and comprehensive program of study that includes both classroom-based and experiential learning, our students are prepared to practice law at the highest level in an increasingly global world. As part of a world-class research university, Penn State Law students have access to extensive academic and programmatic resources to enhance their learning experience. Courses are offered at Penn State’s University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania, and at the law school’s traditional home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
