LSAT performance

I’ve always been a great standardized-test taker, but I found the LSAT a tough nut to crack. In fact, I can’t say that I really cracked it. I did adequately–just slightly above the median for the law school I wanted to attend (and got accepted to). Perhaps if I had taken it again, I could have done better and scored some merit scholarship money. That’s all water under the bridge now.

Still, I was disappointed in my score because it was about 4 points lower than the average of my last 12 practice tests. LSAT forum browsing at Top-Law-Schools, Law School Discussion and NonTradLaw reveals that this is a very common complaint. I can’t figure it out–I took oodles of practice tests (as recent as possible: recent ones are apparently harder) and timed them strictly.

In the end, I got pretty good at Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. But, like many other test-takers, I choked on the Logic Games. Time was the biggest factor. I knew going into it that I could only complete 3 out of 4 games, but I hoped to get those answers right at least. On test day, I confronted the games section first–not an ideal beginning. I think I only made it through 2 of them. That inauspicious beginning knocked me off my game for the rest of the test. When I left the test center I felt relieved to be done but not euphoric about my overall performance.

In future posts, I’ll go into LSAT prep in more detail–including my last-ditch foray into a weekend PowerScore course.