If your LSAT administration was canceled this weekend, you should be getting another email from the LSAC in the next few days; when weather gets in the way of an exam, they try to schedule a make-up test within two to three weeks. Here are some things you should do if your LSAT was canceled: Hang on to your admission ticket; this will get you into the make-up test when it’s scheduled. If schools are… Read more
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A storm’s a-brewin’, and the LSAC has already canceled a number of tomorrow’s LSAT administrations. Before you head out tomorrow, check to make sure your test center is open! The LSAC is keeping of running list of centers that are already closed, and that list is sure to grow today and tomorrow. Here are the closings so far, state by state: Delaware Center 1330 – University of Delaware, Newark, DE Maryland Center 1364 – Towson… Read more
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The February LSAT is tomorrow, and it always helps to get a little last-minute advice. This post comes from Kristen Kennedy, who taught a great exam-day seminar back in December. All you February test-takers should check it out! The link is below, as are some tips to remember once you’re in the exam. One last thing: It looks like weather may affect a number of test centers tomorrow, and the LSAC has already issued some… Read more
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The February LSAT is a bit of a mystery to many law school applicants. A lot of folks think that it’s harder or easier than other tests during the year (it’s not), that February scores come in too late to be sent to schools for the fall (not necessarily), or that if they haven’t started prepping by January they should just take it cold (not true!). If you’re taking the February 2010 LSAT, here are… Read more
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Kalyan is one of Knewton’s expert TAs, so he’s full of ideas that can supercharge your LSAT prep and GMAT prep. – Success at Reading Comprehension depends on two limiting factors: (1) The rate at which the information you’re reading enters your brain and (2) what your brain is able to do with it. The latter, being able to act on information, is a composite skill that is acquired through years of learning. Fortunately for… Read more
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And this may have been your writing sample (photo by purplepick). The December 2009 LSAT has come and gone, and now it’s just a matter of waiting for scores to come in (start hovering over your inbox on January 4). We asked our Knewton LSAT prep students for some feedback on their test-day experience. The consensus? Logic Games were definitely the major challenge this time around. Over 80% of students found this section to be… Read more
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This post was written by Kristen Kennedy. For all of you taking the LSAT tomorrow, good luck! By now you’ve done your practice tests, run through your drills, and gotten yourselves in optimal LSAT-taking shape. How should you spend your last precious hours before the test? Here are some tips. I’m posting a link to a workshop we ran for our Knewton LSAT prep students. Anyone can view it, so check it out! We’ll break… Read more
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Emily Holleman is a Content Developer at Knewton, helping students with their LSAT preparation. If you read my friend Chris Black’s great post on passage wording last week, you already know how important language is on the LSAT. However, it’s especially important to pay attention to language use when you’re asked about an author’s attitude. Attitude questions—you know, those pesky ones that pretty much ask you how the author feels about something—may be the trickiest… Read more
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If you recently took the September 2009 LSAT, you may be wondering whether your test was any harder or easier than previous LSATs. Though it’s true that the LSAT varies slightly in difficulty from administration to administration, this variation will not affect your final score. Consider Jonas, a fictional law school hopeful who took the LSAT twice: once in June, 2008 and again in June, 2009. In June, 2008 Jonas correctly answered 86 out of… Read more
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From Knewton student, Garrett Gunchick I must admit, the September 09 LSAT was not as scary as I made it out to be in my head. I felt confident in my preparation, and decided to go in with success in mind. None of the sections caught me off guard, and I even thought the RC was a little easier than it was on previous PrepTests I had taken. The LR was about average, with nothing… Read more
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