The Law School Admission Test, known by its acronym, the LSAT, is a standardized test that has been an integral part of law school admissions in the United States of America and Canada. The LSAT has been designed to test the intellectual skills deemed appropriate for success at law school. Those intellectual skills include reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, logical reasoning and writing ability.
Law schools consider an applicant’s LSAT score along with the other factors in an applicant’s law school submission, including their GPA, transcripts, letters of recommendation, and their personal statement. Given the disparity between different post-secondary institutions with respect to grading, law school admissions can place considerable weight upon an applicant’s LSAT score, such that it might confer equal or greater weight to that of the applicant’s undergraduate GPA.
Understanding the LSAT and how to score well is a critical step in the process of law school admission. The LSAT is unlike any test that you will probably ever take, with the questions being designed to test your ability to think and decipher specific question types, as opposed to answering real world questions that would have actual application in an actual legal situation. And it is this unique style of questions that demands a very specific approach to preparation and studying when it comes to scoring well in the LSAT.
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