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LSAC has just emailed October 2020 Flex test takers to inform them that beginning next Tuesday, 9/22, at noon Eastern students will be able to select the specific day and time of their October exam. You can sign up via your lsac.org account, and request a start time in twenty-minute intervals from r...

It doesn't appear they will re-open it. They just reinstated the limits, and that was during the Flex administrations so I can't see it :/ If a candidate has both a GRE and an LSAT score, law schools are obligated to use the LSAT score. so, if you have one on record, there's no point in taking the G...

Since we’re seeing a lot of LSAT Writing results that are delayed right now, I talked to LSAC yesterday about the status on the processing. Here’s the story on what’s happening: If you’ve taken the LSAT Writing already, and are still waiting on your results , you are likely in a queue to have your s...

LSAC has just announced that the November 2020 exam will be an LSAT-Flex, confirming our suspicions that the remainder of this year's tests will be taken from home. They have also moved up the date of the first November tests by a week, from November 14th to November 7th. Along with the earlier star...

LSAC has just announced that the October LSAT will be a Flex exam, both in the US and worldwide!

Most test takers will test on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, or Thursday during the week of October 3rd. If anyone has any questions about the test format, just let me know.

LSAC has just announced that beginning with the October 2020 LSAT they are reinstating the retake limits first established in September 2019, but that have been suspended for all tests from May through August of this year. For those unaware, here are the restrictions being resurrected for multiple a...

i can't believe a test as rigorous as lsat's rc and lr is going the way of relatively more trifling tests like gre through the computerized process step. over time people develop an appreciation for questions of lsat's lr and rc that's p much unknown for other tests. I mean, going to a digital form...

haus wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:51 pm

Knowing LSAC they will still likely find a way to take forever actually providing test takers their scores.

You are correct! Somewhat amazingly, they have stated that despite the digital format it will still take the same amount of time to release scores.

app wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:54 pm

wow

how much this whole test, its uniqueness, and admission process has changed in just last 1-2 years

Funny, right about the time the GRE started making serious inroads...

That "score preview/retake for free" option exists only for July test takers, so after that point it won't have an impact.

They haven't said anything about fees, but having watched all the recent increases in years, I expect costs to rise.

Per LSAC, the Digital LSAT will begin with the July 2019 exam . That will be a "transitional" test, with some students being assigned paper and others digital. The big bonus: you get to see your score before cancelling, and you can retake for free anytime up until April 2020 if you cancel. Then, in ...

Per their official account, LSAC confirmed just a bit ago that scores will be releasing Saturday morning at around 9 AM:
This was the predicted time, so no surprises here.

I'm pretty sure that if they graded it, they'd make it a separate score. that's how it works on the GRE/GMAT, and I can't see LSAC messing with the meaning of the 120-180 scale in order to add a writing component.

Funny, we've been debating that since we first received word of the announcement. I do think it will bump it up incrementally, since now it will be a nicely typed statement that wasn't done after a grueling 4 hour test. It will be easier to read, and hence more likely to be read. So, more important ...

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday 8/8, LSAC is going to send out invitations to recent test takers for a trial run of an Online Writing Sample format. The goal is to eventually transition from an in-person, hand-written essay at the end of each LSAT administration, to a system where you can complete a si...

The ABA today dropped a resolution that would have eliminated the LSAT as a requirement for admission to law school. For now the LSAT is still required, unless a school can show that an alternate test (like the GRE) is valid. So, we'll still likely see the GRE continuing to moving in, but perhaps mo...

Per LSAC, they've just extended the registration date for students who took the July LSAT to July 31st. I just spoke to them and confirmed this.

It looks like today's exam was the same as the February 2014 LSAT, which is in the 2010-2014 window we thought was most likely. Not an easy test though, so the scale will likely be a bit looser, maybe -12 or so.

ChaimtheGreat wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:25 am

Emails coming through. -10 curve confirmed.

Confirmed as well. They started the score release at 12:10 AM Eastern time. Interesting move by LSAC.

Hey DKilloran, Just curious as to your general reasoning? What have you been hearing? It's a combination of things, but largely comes from talking to a wide variety of test takers (including students and instructors) combined with the experience of doing this over the years. There's also a sort of ...

Any ideas for curve? I’m thinking -7 Killorian thinks it’s a -10 or a -11. I think probably -10 but a -9 isn’t impossible (gulp). I don’t think it will be -7 though I could be wrong. What makes you think that? I settled in on -10 as the final prediction. Here's to hoping I'm wrong though, and it's ...

That would at least make some sense as far as explaining the price jumps. But that's not what they are promising or delivering of course. For them, this is business as usual, meaning to make $$$.

You may have heard that on Friday the ABA passed the resolution to proceed with the plan to drop the LSAT as an admissions requirement at law schools (it was a close vote too: 9-8). It's not final until the ABA House votes on it (probably in August), but it's getting close to being a reality. That m...

I know everyone saw the recent price increases form LSAC, but you may have missed the explanation they sent to the advisors on the pre-law listserv they maintain: At its meeting this past weekend, the LSAC Board approved fees for the next admission cycle. After careful consideration of the cost of n...

This is robbery. I agree. I'd bet they will say that adding extra LSATs has raised their costs, but if you look at their IRS Form 990, you can see they are sitting on over $200 million in net assets. To raise fees across the board and provide no extra service while facing competition from the GRE a...