Law School Admission Council to host Khan Academy LSAT Test Prep Resources in summer 2024

November 9, 2023

LSAC — LSAC and Khan Academy have provided free LSAT® prep through Khan Academy’s Official LSAT Prep since June 2018, which has helped hundreds of thousands of test takers from all backgrounds access free, high-quality test preparation resources.

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Law professors react to LSAT changes

November 2, 2023

REUTERS — From elation to disappointment, lawyers and aspiring attorneys have some strong feelings about the removal of the so-called “logic games” from the Law School Admission Test.

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Podcast: Northeastern Law professor Jeremy Paul and University of Connecticut Law professor Richard Michael Fischl discuss their book on law school exams

November 2, 2023

BREAK INTO LAW SCHOOL — In this insightful interview, coauthors of the book “Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams,” Jeremy Paul and Richard Michael Fischl, share their wisdom on excelling in law school exams.

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LSAT to remove logic games section from exam  

October 26, 2023

REUTERS — The Law School Admission Test will ditch the so-called “logic games” section of the exam in 2024, according to the organization that creates the test, marking a major change to the exam’s content.

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A look at the changes to the LSAT starting with the August 2024 exam

October 26, 2023

LSAC — We are announcing today a change we will be making to the LSAT at the start of the next testing cycle, beginning with the August 2024 exam.

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Some LSAT-takers experience platform outages

September 18, 2023

REUTERS — Law School Admission Test takers encountered technical glitches on Friday—the second time in two months that examinees have faced such problems.

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Majority of test takers take the LSAT remotely even as it is offered in-person

August 25, 2023

REUTERS — It turns out people like taking the Law School Admission Test in the comfort of their own home. More than half — 61% — of the 19,463 aspiring lawyers registered for this month’s LSAT have opted to complete it remotely, while 39% wanted to take it in-person at test centers, according to the

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Advice on completing the multiple choice section of the LSAT

August 24, 2023

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — On the LSAT, as in the practice of law itself, right answers are rarely unambiguous. Particularly on the logical reasoning and reading comprehension sections, there may be plausible arguments for more than one answer choice. That’s why test-takers are advised to choose the “best” answer.

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University of Arizona Law receives ABA approval to use its ‘JD-Next’ test for admissions

June 13, 2023

REUTERS — A law school entrance exam developed by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law has won approval from the American Bar Association, joining ranks with the LSAT and the GRE for law school admissions.

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ABA legal education section pauses plans to make law schools admission test optional

May 26, 2023

ABA JOURNAL — After receiving letters from various law school deans with concerns about cutting the Law School Admission Test requirement, the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on Friday walked back plans to go forward with the proposal in August. The decision was made Friday—when the council

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