LSAT and Law School Admissions Blog

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.

There have been quite a few stories cropping up lately about dwindling numbers of LSAT takers and law school applicants. With the Law School Admission Council reporting double-digit percentage drops in each of the last few years, some people have clearly been dissuaded from attempting to enter law school. What does this mean for today’s applicants?

If you're applying this fall, you should already be thinking about your law school 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.

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

Before we continue with Part Eight 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.

You have four weeks left until the June 2013 LSAT, and that 10-point gap between your target

Using a GRE score for application to MBA programs (in place of a GMAT score) has become standard practice in recent years as ETS (the makers of the GRE) has aggressively marketed the GRE as a substitute for the GMAT. That's great for GRE takers, but is there a way to use an LSAT score to get into business school, and thus skip taking the GMAT entirely? It turns out that there is--but, there is also a condition in place on using that LSAT score, so let's talk a bit more about the process.