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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Anybody else studying for LSAT?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.182159.13328@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:21:59 GMT
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- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- Here's one bit of advice that I've not seen in any prep book.
-
- As you probably already know, there are four sections on the LSAT
- (I'm leaving out the bogus writing section) plus one experimental
- section.
-
- There are two reading sections, one logical reasoning section, and
- one analytical reasoning section.
-
- Note that this means that you can determined what type of section
- your experimental section was. For example, if your test has three
- logical reasoning sections, then you know one of them is your experimental
- section. If there are two reading sections, one of them is experimental.
- If there are two analytical reasoning sections, one of them is
- experimental.
-
- Not everyone has the same experimental section. Some people might have
- an experimental reading section, while others taking the same test
- might have an experimental logical reasoning section, and so forth.
-
- Now for the useful part. If you talk to other people after the test,
- you can figure out which of your sections was experimental. For example,
- when I took the test, I had two analytical reasoning sections. Hence,
- one of them was experimental. The person next to me had two reading
- sections, hence one of them was experimental. After the test finished,
- he started talking to the person next to him about a particular analytical
- reasoning problem that was on his test. Because he only had one analytical
- reasoning section, I then knew which of my two such sections was real.
-
- This let me know that the section that I aced was the one that counted
- rather than the section that I only got about 25% on. My GPA sucked, so
- I needed a good LSAT score, so this was important to me in determining
- if I should cancel or not. Knowing that the only section that I felt
- bad about did not count, I knew that I should not cancel. (Right
- decision: I got 177).
-
- One more bit of advice. The LSAT is *not* as hard as the test prep
- books make it out to be. Remember, the companies that write these
- books (and that run test prep courses) are selling something. It
- is in their interest to make people fear the test.
-
- --Tim Smith
-