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The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a norm-referenced, or standardized test that is administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). It is intended to provide law schools with "a standard measure of acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants"*. Formally, LSAC correlates LSAT performance with first year law school grades. The LSAT is administered four times per year, traditionally in February, June, October, and December, and scores are distributed on a scale of 120 to 180—with 180 the highest possible score, and 120 the lowest. The number of students taking the LSAT increased by over 30% between 2000 and 2002, but slowed in 2004. Although the number of test-takers dropped by about 5% in 2005, the total of more than 137,000 examinees that year is significantly higher than the 104,000 people who took it in 1997.
Test Composition
Logical reasoning
There are two logical reasoning sections of 35 minutes each. Commonly known as the "arguments" sections, each question begins with a logical statement or argument, usually composing no more than a few short sentences (e.g. "A is B; therefore C must be D"), and then asks the examinee to find unspoken assumptions, alternative arguments, logical omissions or errors, to pick a line of parallel reasoning, or to identify weakening or strengthening statements. There is usually one question per argument, although sometimes the test will ask two questions about the same passage.Logical reasoning sections usually consist of 24-26 questions each. In its official LSAT Superprep, LSAC scores questions on a difficulty scale from 1-5. Most logical reasoning sections contain 2-3 level 5 questions. The arguments section is somewhat difficulty-graded. While not directly graded like the SAT, the hardest questions tend to come toward the end of the section, while the first 10 often contain no questions above difficulty level 3.
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