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@"Alex Divine" The question is whether LSAC could come up with something even better if they so wished. I'll bet they could. But as long as the law schools are happy with the status quo, there will be little motivation to do so.
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And I didn't even go into the issue of the problem of comparing people who have the financial wherewithal and the time to put months and months of full-time prep with professional help to those who aren't as fortunate. Who is a better candidate for…
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The gold standard of tutors is probably @"Jonathan Wang" . He's far more expensive than the others, but if you can afford it, it could be a good investment.
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I don't think that LSAC is committed enough to testing different formats. My strong hunch is that you would get a much higher correlation between LSAT scores and law school performance if you dropped the Games section altogether, and had an extra RC…
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The article I provided a link to was particularly interesting to me in that it claims that LSAT has a particularly lousy correlation to L1 success for splitters. Not that law schools care about that. They'll take the high LSAT score of splitters to …
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@"Alex Divine" Take a look at this: http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1651&context=articles This is perhaps some of what U of T is referring to when they say that recent research has caused them to put more weight on G…
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The other interesting thing is that they take into account the rigorousness of the undergrad program, which makes a lot of sense, except in the warped world of US law schools who care little about anything other than the US News reports, for which a…
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I also wonder. But the data about LSAT being a better indicator is from LSAC, who might, just might, have a vested interest in the LSAT being a valid predictor.
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https://www.law.utoronto.ca/admissions/jd-admissions/admissions-policies End of paragraph titled Standards for Admission 2016-17
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All this discussion got me curious, so I looked at U of T's website. I think you can see a little glimpse of the kind of thinking that would become more prevalent if only US law schools were not the prisoners of US News rankings. U of T says that **…
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Truth is, that most of the money spent on LSAT prep is probably for LG. I would love if LSAC would do some of their predictive validity research (which anyhow is pretty dubious) on only RC and LR. I'd be willing to bet that performance on those sect…
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Yes. It's a biconditional.
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I should add that my offer is only for those who took the June LSAT, and therefore already have legal access to the text of the question. I'll be happy to PM everyone else after PT 81 is released to the public.
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I actually challenged this question, and just today received a response from LSAC. I can PM their response to anyone who is interested in seeing it.
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I wish that that the myth perpetuated by the prep companies that 2-3 months is enough time to prep would be euthanized. It's so false, and they do it only because the amount of money they can charge for a 2-3 month course hits the sweet spot for the…
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This really shows the strides that LSAT prep has made in the past couple of decades. A while back, the only prep option was Kaplan. Now, it's routinely dismissed as being the worst of the lot. But better LSAT prep is a double-edged sword -- it has l…
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@"Alex Divine" said: @tringo335 said: Oh snap!!! I collect these books even though I have 1-75 on PDF and all the rest of the 10 actuals on Hard copy. I just like collecting these damn things. I need to stop wasting money t…
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@"Alex Divine" I think that @jennybbbbb would like for you to drop some LSAT knowledge about her concerns about being at a disadvantage with the December LSAT. Personally, I think that the potential gains from a higher LSAT outweigh any advantage f…
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Yes, yes, and yes again. Especially RC and LR. There are many threads that discuss this.
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@navilsat raises a very good point. Is there a pressing reason to take the September LSAT, instead of the December LSAT? Either way, we're talking about applying for Fall '18.
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@"Alex Divine" Take a look at the tuition for Canadian law schools. You'll love the Canadian system even more.
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I think that, for some reason, people downplay the psychological aspect of the test. A precipitous drop in one's score can certainly be due to those factors. I wish I had good advice about that, but I don't. Maybe others can chime in.
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Obviously, delaying is not always an option due to the realities of life, but often, the question posed is: "Help, I need a 170+, and I'm 2 months away from the LSAT, and I'm scoring in the mid 150's." Well, a dose of reality is needed with respect …
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@"evonne-alkhatib" said: @uhinberg said: Postpone till December. Is there any pressing reason not to? I also heard it is bad to study for such a long time on the LSAT! Whoever you heard that from is dead wrong. Many, many…
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Postpone till December. Is there any pressing reason not to?
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That passage and the riddled basins of attraction are probably from the hardest science passages. But you can still understand the logical relationship between all the things being spoken about, even without really understanding what they are. It's …
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This question makes a standard jump between percentage to total amount. All the stimulus says is that a higher percentage of the total expenditures are being spent on ineffective treatments. It does not automatically follow that less total money is …
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I didn't read through the details about the particular question, but it is indeed possible for a necessary assumption to be sufficient. A necessary assumption does not have to be sufficient, and a sufficient assumption can overshoot and therefore be…
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Why do you have to take in September? What's wrong with December? It's a really ambitious goal to go from 154 to 173 in two months. Take some stress off, and give yourself more time. You'll still need to put a lot of work and countless hours into st…
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@"Alex Divine" in this contest is like Raphael Nadal on clay. Unbeatable!