Law School Admissions

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WHAT IS THE LSAT?
The LSAT or Law School Admissions Test is your ticket into law school. All students applying to ABA-approved law schools are required to take the LSAT. ABA or American Bar association-approved law schools make sure that law schools meet certain criteria in their courses.(Wright 42) Law schools use this test to measure a law school candidate’s ability to read and comprehend abstract material. Joanna Grossman had this to say about the LSAT, “Frankly, it was a cruel individual who devised this mode of assessment.” (1) What makes this test so difficult is the fact that it does not test your knowledge in a subject like the ACT or SAT. It is a thought process that you must learn and study in order to be successful on the LSAT and in law school.

HOW IS THE LSAT FORMATTED?
Tom Martinson comprised the LSAT with 6 different sections that look like this:
SECTION NUMBER OF QUESTIONS TIME ALLOWED
Logical Reasoning 1 24-26 35 min.
Reading Comprehension 27-28 35 min.
Analytical Reasoning 24-25 35 min.
Logical Reasoning 2 24-26 35 min.
Experimental ?? 35 min.
Writing Sample Essay 30 min.
Note: The order of the section varies from administration to administration, and the Experimental section is not necessarily the last is not necessarily the last section of multiple choice questions.

LOGICAL REASONING
Logical reasoning questions make up about half of the test question that you will find on this exam. This is great, because I find that these questions are the easiest to master. What do we mean when we say logical reasoning? Let’s analyze each part of this, according to Webster’s definition of logical which means, “Displaying consistency in reasoning,” and reasoning which is, “to form conclusions, judgments, or inferences.” (Page #)In this section you will be asked to drawl a conclusion based on an argument or explanation in a short passage and provide the best possible solution. I should place emph...