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Category Archives: LSAT Analysis
Key to Great LSAT Scores Same as Key to Great Quarterbacks
Today’s guest LSAT blog post is by Shawdi Vara, a former Blueprint LSAT Prep student who is currently attending UC-Davis Law School.
Joe Montana, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady all have poor short term memory. Before you freak out that this is an LSAT blog post about football, let me give you an example of what I mean.
Fresh in my mind is an example from San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the divisional playoff game against the Green Bay Packers. On the first drive, he dropped back to pass. His first look: double covered. His second look: covered. He felt pressure, and tried to escape the pocket, but couldn’t. He then threw a terrible pass, which Green Bay intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
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Apr 18, 2013 - 6:02 pm - By Contributing Writer
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Number of December LSAT Test Takers Dropped Again
The numbers are out, and a losing streak longer than even the Kansas City Chiefs managed this season continued: last December’s LSAT marked the ninth consecutive LSAT administration for which numbers were down from the previous year. 30,226 law school hopefuls took the 2012 December LSAT. That’s down 15.6% from December 2011 and down 40.1% from the December LSAT’s peak of 50,444 in 2009. All of this is largely because of bad press about the legal job market that newly minted lawyers have faced in the past few years.
The precipitous decline in LSAT test takers shows no signs of abating, at least in terms of percentages (there’ll be no percentages vs. numbers fallacies in this LSAT blog post). If you’re looking to go to law school, fewer people taking the LSAT correlates to fewer law school applicants.
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Jan 14, 2013 - 6:54 pm - By Aaron Cohn
Tags: december lsat, february lsat, law school, law school applicant, lsac, LSAT, LSAT blog, lsat test, lsats
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6 Semi-Interesting Takeaways from LSAC’s Demographic Data
If you want to know how much time the LSAC spends analyzing the demographics from every administration of the LSAT, you only have to check out data they release after each one. Here’s the most recent of LSAC’s reports.
In it, you can see trend lines for pretty much any combination of demographic information you’d ever want to know (and, for the most part, stuff you really don’t care about). So what are some of the fun facts to be discovered within its pages?
1) Canadians love the LSAT
Outside of the United States, Canada clocked in at number 2 with 7.1% of LSAT test-takers sitting for the exam. And since there isn’t a draft on, I assume the vast majority of them are actual Canadians.
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Dec 5, 2012 - 6:21 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: february lsat, lsac, LSAT, lsat score, lsat test, October LSAT
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The Toughest Questions From the October 2012 LSAT
Now that the dust has settled from the release of the October LSAT (as well as its LSAT scores), it’s time to take a look at the actual meat of the test. There were a number of different questions that people struggled with, but I probably heard more complaints about the following three than any others (excluding the zones game and !Kung reading comp). We can’t reproduce the questions in full, so if you took the October LSAT look at your test PDFs to follow along.
Toughest October 2012 LSAT Question No. 1: LR 1, #13
Building material controversies. It doesn’t get much more exciting than this. In this question we learn that there’s some rogue construction material called papercrete. Most builders think it’s no good for big buildings.
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Nov 5, 2012 - 6:57 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Recent LSAC Trends to Watch For On the October LSAT
The October LSAT is little more than a week away, so it’s a good time to look at some trends on recent LSATs. Keep in mind that we at Blueprint LSAT Prep don’t have ESP, nor do we have spies at LSAC, and therefore we can’t know which trends will continue on October’s LSAT and which ones won’t. Take everything below with a grain of salt.
First, the big one: In case you haven’t heard, LSAT test takers this June were surprised to find that each LSAT logic game was spread over two pages rather than one. This leaves much more room to write out scratch work. LSAC has confirmed that this will continue. If you haven’t done so yet, take a look at this June’s LSAT so you can see how the new format looks.
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Sep 27, 2012 - 6:51 pm - By Aaron Cohn
Tags: blueprint, blueprint lsat, blueprint lsat prep, logic game, logical reasoning, lsac, LSAT, lsat analysis, LSAT prep, lsat questions, lsat test, October LSAT, reading comp
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One Week Until the June LSAT, Ready or Not
With the countdown to the June LSAT now in the single digits, it’s time to have a serious conversation.
Not everyone reading this is prepared for the LSAT next week. Others will have a bad day (either because of illness or an RC passage on which you freeze up).
So we need to talk about what to do in these cases.
First, how do you know if you’re ready, and what should you do if you’re not?
To tell if you’re ready, look at your last 2-3 LSAT practice tests. Are they within 5 points of your target LSAT score? If so, you should most likely sit for the exam on LSAT test day.
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Jun 4, 2012 - 11:23 am - By Matt Shinners
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A Drop in Test-Takers Boosts the Value of a High LSAT Score
I’m not sure if you’ve encountered the same phenomenon, but it’s occurred to me more than once that I see a lot of less-than-intelligent people having kids. I also see a lot of intelligent people not having kids. One could argue that intelligence itself is to blame. After all, if you do a cost-benefit analysis in your twenties, having kids just doesn’t seem to pencil out (to put things in the least emotional terms possible). In other words, smarter people are having less kids because having less kids is the “smarter” thing to do.
I’m going to ask you to apply baby-having to law school because reports indicate that fewer of those with upper echelon LSAT scores are actually applying to law school. Now, this could mean that those with higher LSAT scores merely see LSAT tutoring as an excellent business prospect, but that’s not where I’d place my bets.
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Apr 18, 2012 - 6:59 pm - By Alex Davis
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The Ins and Outs of LSAT Grouping Games
For some reason, people tend to dislike the LSAT’s grouping games more than ordering games. Maybe it’s the missing visual element. Maybe it’s the short rules that make you feel like you’re missing something. Maybe it’s the awkward overtones of needing to segregate people named Jabrohn and Juarez. Whatever the case, leaving the familiar territory of ordering games can be scary.
But it needn’t be.
Grouping games on the LSAT can be broken into four categories: You’re either having one person follow another, saying two people can’t be together, saying two people have to be together, or saying you need at least one of two people. Nothing tricky here, and nothing we haven’t seen (as they’re all built off of conditional relationships). Nonetheless, here’s a breakdown of grouping games to help you perform better on your upcoming LSAT. Read Entire Article…
Aug 16, 2011 - 4:57 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: LSAT, LSAT games, October LSAT
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The Numbers are In: The LSAT Stats and What They Mean to You
Every year, thousands and thousands of people just like you take the LSAT. Over a hundred thousand, to be precise. To be even more precise, check out this chart listing the number of administered LSATs per test date. No seriously, go check it out. Really.
Pretty fun, right? There’s a few things you may have noticed. First, LSAT apparently wants you to share this chart on both facebook and twitter. But more importantly, the numbers have been fluctuating. During the 2009-10 cycle, LSATs administered were up a whopping 13.3% from the previous cycle, with over 170,000 people taking the test. This was an increase that started during 2008-2009 period, which saw a 6.4% total increase from the cycle prior.
What’s going on here?
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Aug 1, 2011 - 4:07 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Standardized Test Showdown
I hope you would never experience this, but the sad truth is you may come across an “off day” every now and then where you find yourself unmotivated to study the LSAT (hard to believe, I know). If you ever find yourself in this unfortunate situation, I would suggest you find your inspiration in an unexpected place – the GRE. I had the misfortune of taking the GRE last week and never before have I been so thankful to teach the LSAT. Few things in life help you appreciate what you have, more than seeing how bad it is elsewhere (like how 10 minutes of Everybody Loves Raymond makes Modern Family seem like a masterpiece of modern television cinema).
And you should consider yourself similarly lucky – of all the standardized tests, you are fortunate to be faced with the LSAT and not some other standardized scrapheap.
Jul 22, 2011 - 4:08 pm - By Contributing Writer
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