Author Topic: Law School Admissions Test (Read 921 times)

Capt. Pork · « **on:** November 13, 2003, 10:42:16 PM »

I'll be taking the LSATS before december of next year. I know some of you guys may have been through this already and am just looking for advice/moral support of any kind. I managed to scrape together a 1350 on the sats but that was years ago and studying for the LSAT is melting my brain to say the least. It's not that the questions are hard, necessarily, it's that they're annoying, the 'logic games' especially(how can you refer to something so positively unfun and potentially catastrophic to your future a 'game'?!) and the time limitation compounds this sensation. I guess the next step would be to suspend my AH account, enroll in a prep class and start spending money on books and strategy guides. Would it make sense to just rent a gun and buy a bullet instead?

Just thought I'd vent for a while.

Martlet · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2003, 10:44:22 PM »

Cry.

Cry a lot.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2003, 10:46:13 PM »

Done and done. Now what?

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2003, 10:49:28 PM »

Phear the LSAT!

So you are at a car dealership and there are 7 cars lined up in the showroom one next to the other. The blue car is next to the yellow one, the red car is two cars from the green one, the car two cars from the orange one is not at the end...... And so on and so forth...

Sixpence · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2003, 10:50:45 PM »

get off the BB and start studying;)

JBA · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2003, 11:08:42 PM »

enroll now!
you will see ever question before hand during the pratice sessions. And they put you through the time testing. At least you will get a feel for it.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #6 on:** November 14, 2003, 12:22:55 AM »

Obviously, the test is biased and flawed. Since when does the practice of law require logic? I thought law was based on precedent and case law.

Just start following ambulances. (You can't actually chase them until you are a member of the bar.)

Thrawn · « **Reply #7 on:** November 14, 2003, 01:04:04 AM »

If I understand correctly, the LSATS are designed to test wether or not you think the right way to be a lawyer. If you aren't enjoying them, you might want to reconsider, because that's they type of thinking you will have to do for your career.

Curval · « **Reply #8 on:** November 14, 2003, 07:11:25 AM »

I suggest you take an LSAT prep course. They teach you many of the pitfalls and how to approach the test in the best possible way.

My roomate took one and ended up in the 95th percentile. He left the exam with an hour to go as well. Trouble was that despite his incredible ranking in that exam he was medicocre at best when it came to his grades in his university courses...he wasn't accepted anywhere. Really smart guy just too much partying.

Sikboy · « **Reply #9 on:** November 14, 2003, 07:30:55 AM »

You might be too late to get a full prep course, but it's worth looking into.

I don't know if the course really helped me all that much, but it was definately nice to go into the test with an accurate understanding of what you had to look forward too.

For me, the game stuff took the most effort. I actually enjoyed the bastards, but I wasn't fast enough at them. The prep course I took suggested focusing on completing 2 or 3 of the problems with high accuracy, and going on with the others if you had time, but I don't think that really helped me too much.

In the end, it didn't matter, I got my first choice school in spite of my LSAT score, but you have my sympathy.

Now, if I can just survive this legal writing class.

-Sik

PS: do you know where you're going to apply?

gofaster · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2003, 08:46:15 AM »

"If the red panel overlaps the green panel..."

Ah, the memories.

If you're taking the LSAT in December, and you don't start prepping until mid-November, then you better be smart or need very little sleep or just be a natural-born lawyer.

I was a glutton for punishment. I took the LSATs and the GMAT in the same year.

Just keep telling yourself how rewarding its going to be, rubbing shoulders with all the high-IQ hotties on campus. "Hey baby, I'm a law student."

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2003, 09:34:20 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Sikboy
You might be too late to get a full prep course, but it's worth looking into.

I don't know if the course really helped me all that much, but it was definately nice to go into the test with an accurate understanding of what you had to look forward too.

For me, the game stuff took the most effort. I actually enjoyed the bastards, but I wasn't fast enough at them. The prep course I took suggested focusing on completing 2 or 3 of the problems with high accuracy, and going on with the others if you had time, but I don't think that really helped me too much.

In the end, it didn't matter, I got my first choice school in spite of my LSAT score, but you have my sympathy.

Now, if I can just survive this legal writing class.

-Sik

PS: do you know where you're going to apply?

My first choice, at this point, is UCLA. They're not the greatest, I know, but they're good and probably one of the better ones for the kind of Law I hope to go into eventually (entertainment). Of course it doesn't help that I'm white and with no readily identifiable socia-economic hardships to overcome but now that I think about it, isn't being on the ass-end of affirmitive action a hardship all its own?

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2003, 09:35:36 AM »

By December I meant december of 2004. That's the deadline for when I'll be applying. Still over a year of torture left.

Dune · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2003, 09:44:56 AM »

I took the LSAT 5 years ago and scored a 161. The key for me was to take the prep course. IIRC, I took the Kaplan course. Most of it was helpful, but, for me, the most important thing was that they will teach you a formula for the logic games. I hated them, but once you understand their formula (and no, I don't remember it

), they become a lot less daunting.

A high LSAT score can help you get into a certain school, and for me it helped me get a scholarship for the first year (at Golden Gate School of Law, Class of 2001). The money I saved with the scholarship paid for the prep course. I think it's silly not to take one if you can.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2003, 09:52:21 AM »

When I first took an official practice test, which, as I understand, was nothing more than a past LSAT published in a stack with a bunch of others, it was 3 in the morning and I was still a little drunk from the evening's activities. I hadn't prepared at all, timed myself and still managed a 158. The logic games killed me, as I think they do many people. I don't drink and study anymore, but those friggen 'games' gum up the works in my brain just as efficiently as they did the night I bar-hopped home down Sunset BLVD. I've never been a coffee drinker. Now I'm thinking of becoming one.