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LSAC Adds Abstract Reasoning (Math) Section to the LSAT
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The LSAT is undergoing its first really major change since 1991. LSAC just announced that starting on the June LSAT, it’ll be adding an Abstract Reasoning section to the test.
Also known as math.
This sucks. We know. A lot of people will be complaining that math has nothing to do with law school (but some would say the same thing about logic games). LSAC adding math to the LSAT actually isn’t the most terrible thing in the world; after all, you already have a head start, since you studied math for a good twelve or so years of your life. With LSAT Logic Games you were starting from square one.
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Apr 1, 2013 - 6:36 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Our LSAT Book is Here: The Blueprint for LSAT Logic Games
We don’t have a Pope, meteors are crashing into Russia, and the universe is officially doomed.
You’ll have to worry about that stuff later because we’ve got some even bigger news:
Blueprint LSAT Prep is proud to announce the release of our first-ever LSAT book. It’s called The Blueprint for LSAT Logic Games, and it’s available right now. Here’s the lowdown on the latest (and greatest) LSAT book to hit the market:
At 561 pages and covering 35 real Analytical Reasoning problems, The Blueprint for LSAT Logic Games is one of the biggest and most comprehensive LSAT Logic Games study guides out there.
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Feb 20, 2013 - 6:21 pm - By Hank
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Win a Free Blueprint LSAT Prep Course in Our Video Contest
There are many ills facing society today. Sexism. Drug abuse. Dehydrated Senators.
Although these are clearly important issues, there is one particularly harmful societal danger that we’ve seen rear its head too many times: People trying to self-study for the LSAT. Who knows how many law school applications have been discarded because students tried prepping for the hardest test of their lives without any help. That’s why we’re giving away a free LSAT prep course to whomever can best warn others of the dangers of self-studying (as well as the benefits of using Blueprint) in the form of a 30-second public service announcement (PSA).
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Feb 13, 2013 - 6:06 pm - By Hank
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Several February LSAT Testing Centers Closed Due to Nemo
Another LSAT administration, another weather delay.
Just four months after Hurricane Sandy caused a delay in the release of October LSAT scores, a blizzard in the northeast United States has forced LSAC to close a number of February LSAT testing centers. The full list of LSAT testing centers that will be closed can be found here. As of Friday morning there are eight states affected: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Three February LSAT testing centers in Canada have also been closed.
If you were scheduled to take the February LSAT in one of the affected LSAT testing centers, you should receive a notification from LSAC about the situation, as well as an email within a week of when and where your rescheduled LSAT will take place.
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Feb 7, 2013 - 6:08 pm - By Hank
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LSAC Now on the Bad Side of the Justice Department
It seems that the U.S. Department of Justice is none too pleased with LSAC these days. Porque, you ask? For one, LSAC has been flagging the LSAT scores of those test takers who received special accommodations due to disabilities. Apparently, LSAC has also made it fairly onerous to receive such accommodations.
In one case, the DOJ has alleged that although one prospective LSAT test taker provided extensive documentation of her previous receipt of accommodations from other testing agencies since she was a kindergartner, LSAC was not moved. She had very poor vision and needed a large print testing book. When she appealed LSAC’s decision, she was informed that the date for such appeal had passed. She was denied accommodated LSAT test-taking two more times thereafter.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 6:51 pm - By Alex Davis
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Survey II: Pre-Law Students Ready to Foot the Law School Bill
As many of you know, Blueprint LSAT Prep recently surveyed a large number of potential law students about their views on legal education and expectations of their futures. We first wrote on the application process and how recent trends match up with student’s views.
This week, we’re going to look at how much it actually costs to go to law school, and what that means long-term during a legal career/life of a student loan.
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Sep 11, 2012 - 6:29 pm - By Matt Shinners
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Survey: Pre-Law Students Uncertain of Admission Chances
There have been hundreds (if not thousands) of articles written over the past few years about the current state of legal education. Education reporters, law professors, journalists, law students, and (saddest of all) ex-law students who can’t find a job with their degree, have all weighed in on the current legal climate.
A group that hasn’t factored as much into the discussion is soon-to-be applicants. How is their perception of law school changing based on the deluge of data in this era of rapidly changing educational and economic factors?
In conjunction with Above the Law Career Center, Blueprint recently surveyed all of its summer students studying for the October 2012 LSAT to find out what they believe about the current legal and legal education system. In a series of articles, we’ll talk about how these perceptions mesh with (and at times diverge from) reality.
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Sep 5, 2012 - 6:35 pm - By Matt Shinners
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Study: LSAT Prep with Blueprint Makes You Smarter
A study in neuroanatomy from UC Berkeley using students from Blueprint LSAT Preparation classes verifies what we at Blueprint LSAT Prep have long suspected: studying for the LSAT makes you smarter*. In fact, reading the word “neuroanatomy” probably just increased your IQ at least incrementally.
The study, which exclusively used Blueprint LSAT Prep students enrolled in our in-class, three-month course of LSAT study as test subjects, found that when compared with a control group not training for the LSAT, Blueprint students exhibited “decreases in radical diffusivity (RD) in white matter connecting frontal cortices, and in mean diffusivity (MD) within frontal and parietal lobe white matter.” Yeah, baby.
Um, what?
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Aug 23, 2012 - 5:01 pm - By Jodi Triplett
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The PPACA is Constitutional – Will Your Life Change, Law Students?
Almost 75 years ago, another Justice Roberts supposedly switched his vote on minimum wage laws in Parrish, overturning a previous SCOTUS decision and rendering them constitutional. Not only did this signal a shift that would continue in future New Deal decisions (though maybe Congress just got better at writing constitutional laws), it also stopped FDR’s court-packing plan in its tracks.
While rumblings of a plan to pack the Court were today, if anywhere, in the political extremes, Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision to uphold the PPACA under Congress’ taxing power certainly came as a shock to most SCOTUS fans; especially after Citizens United. Many on the left were feeling that the Court was losing its institutional credibility (though that’s always the argument of the minority party in the Court).
However, the individual mandate/tax was upheld, and the PPACA is now officially constitutional AND the law of the land. Read Entire Article…
Jul 5, 2012 - 11:07 pm - By Matt Shinners
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LSAC Changes LSAT Accommodations for Nursing Mothers
At its meeting on June 1, the LSAC Board of Trustees changed its policy to allow nursing mothers to request accommodations on the LSAT (more later on what to expect). Previously, new mothers who took the LSAT received no accommodations at all; LSAC had a blanket policy of refusing such requests.
For last year’s October LSAT, a new mother named Ashley asked LSAC for extra break time to pump milk for her baby. LSAC, predictably, denied her request. While Ashley went through with the LSAT anyway, her experience doesn’t sound fun. The ACLU got involved and contacted LSAC on her behalf, to no avail. The ACLU then started an internet advocacy campaign, encouraging people to take to Twitter, Facebook, and email to protest LSAC’s policy. Many bloggers, outraged, spread the word as well. Read Entire Article…
Jun 18, 2012 - 10:00 am - By Aaron Cohn
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