LSAT's?

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Got a question for anyone who knows....

My friend is planning to go to Law School in America, and he's been doing mock LSAT's this week just to see what they're like, but he needs to know what a good score is. I think he scored 161 in the last one he did, but how good is that?

Any help is appreciated!

 

[Mischka]

The LSAT is scored between 130 and 180, with 150 as average. Top schools begin admission with a 160, so your friend is right on the cusp. Yale averages 174 or 176.

Is your friend taking any courses to prepare? If he doesn't have access to any (liek Kaplan), then I highly recommend s/he read logic books.

 

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Thanks for the info Mischka. He's still got a couple of years to finish university here before he goes to America, but I'll pass on the recommendations.

 

[lavender]

 

[Mischka]

Mischka's scores for Yale seem incredibly high.

That's from the official book of law schools stats from two years ago. Yale has the highest LSAT requirement. They even rejected a person that got a 180. No idea what they look for in an applicant.

Lavy's correct about scores dropping from the practice test to the real one. I dropped 10 points, to a 164.

 

[SweetNick]

I admit, that I don't know much about the LSATs, but the practice tests for the GRE were harder than the real thing and I did rather well on both. I also remember the PSATs being harder than the SAT and going up in that as well. Just tell your friend to study his ass off, because I know friends who spent months working up to the LSAT and still didn't do well. A lot has to do on how one tests as well.

 

[lavender]

 

[RisiaSkye]

I don't know if this is helpful, but...

A coupla logic and/or deductive reasoning books are much cheaper than a prep course, and just as good a preparation. Plus, you don't have the anxiety of practise scores not really predicting actual scores.


Really, though, tell your friend not to stress out overly much about the test. It's meant to be an aptitude test. Flawed though they are, aptitude tests are meant for people who haven't prepared for the exam. If you're good at the things that make for good lawyering, you'll be just fine. If you aren't, preparation will help you squeeze a few extra points out of the process, but it won't make actual law school any easier.

Then again, I'm a lousy advice-giver on the subject. I am congenitally incapable of studying for a test. I bought the books, but I never said that I read the books. Until well after the test, when I got bored one day and was too lazy to go to the library.

 

[Thomas Paine]

Games section? The LSAT wasn't that much fun when I took it.

I think it was scored on a different scale, too. Either that or I got into law school as a fluke. *g*