Here’s a link to the Boston College website on questions regarding the LSAT. Now this is a superb resource for test-takers or the generally curious, as it breaks down information from LSAT facts, misconceptions, test prep, importanting points, and “testwiseness”
Here is an excerpt from the first three tips in the testwiseness section:
#1 Prepare to concentrate immediately, intensely, steadily, and to your utmost. The passive test-taker gets nowhere. There’s no time to reread. Attack the problem actively the first time around. And be in condition to keep this up for 3 1/2 hours.
#2. Take time to understand the directions. You’re being tested on following difficult and unexpected directions. Pay particular attention to the exact wording of definitions. Some of these are very strange, too.
#3. Don’t misread, don’t skim, don’t “speed-read.” The time pressure comes from the required speed of thinking, not of reading. Read carefully for exact wording, exact meaning. Underline key words.
LSAT Advice - Boston College Link
As the June LSAT looms on the near horizon, here is one post of many that discusses some LSAT-taking tips. This discussion thread is quite casual, but some nifty gems can still be found within, like this one:
Best advice I got was that it was just a test, and not the end all and be all of my life.. It really managed to calm me down, and I was not nearly as nervous for the actual test..
There are lots of such threads on the Law School Discussion board, so head on over and read up! Take some of it with a biiiig grain of salt, however.
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Some law schools are beginning to ban or restrict laptop use in their classrooms, creating uproar all over the place:
As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face. But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student actually was playing poker - online, using the school’s wireless Internet connection.
The scenario is not uncommon in today’s college classrooms, and some instructors want it stopped. So they have done the unthinkable - banned laptops.
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Posted May 4, 2006 in Articles
Where you take the LSAT can effect your performance as there are many external factors that may distract or annoy you. Kaplan did a survey to find out which are the best LSAT (and MCAT) test locations and which ones are horrible. By the by, you can search their findings (including SUNY Buffalo location, which did pretty well) by going to their test site rater, here.
According to the results of a new “Test Site Rater” survey from Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, the quality of MCAT and LSAT test sites varies dramatically — a factor that can have an impact on test day performance.
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Insightful article written by a student from Arizona State University on the alarming decline in black law student enrollment:
The lack of black professionals in our society should trouble everyone. It is not only a black problem. If we’re serious about an inclusive society, we must address the fact that our criminal “justice” system — so eager to throw young blacks in prison — has a disproportionately small amount of black lawyers. And we, as citizens who want to heal the wounds of generations of bigotry and exploitation, should care about the fact that the situation is not getting better quickly enough.
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