Yesterday I was on the phone - ALL DAY. 

My students called me off the hook to share, discuss, celebrate as well as vent their LSAT scores. Overall, it's good news at LSAT Sensei. I'm immensely proud of my students - both those who did well and those who under-performed. 

If you under-performed, go ahead and remorse a bit, but don't stay down too long. You and I know your true potential. Email me if you need to discuss next steps. All in all, however, no situation is so bad. If your true potential is much higher than what you scored, then you can demonstrate that on the next exam. 

The immense advantage of taking the LSAT in June is getting your results way before law school applications are out. It's a win-win situation for both those who rocked and those who bombed the test. If you rocked it, you're squared away to apply early; maybe even take advantage of early admissions. If you bombed it, then dust yourself off and try again; register for the Sept exam and demonstrate your true potential on the LSAT. 

Keep positive people! Never under estimate the power of optimism~

Interesting article.

"In law schools throughout the country, the number of Black applicants, students and graduates are all declining."

I don't know if condemning the ABA is the most effective remedy, but I suppose it's the place anyone would start in his/her attempt to make a difference in legal education.

It's also no surprise that the LSAT took some heat.

As an LSAT instructor, I know and am convinced that the LSAT can be studied for. Many African-American students, however, don't have the finanical luxury to pay $1000 - $2000 for a LSAT course.

Since this "condemning" originated from Congress, perhaps Congress ought to consider making student loans available for students who want to take test prep courses.

This Saturday is V-day for many of you - Victory Day.

You've studied hard and long, and now it's finally time to show 'em what you can do. Though I have different advice for different people when studying for the LSAT (mainly because we all think and study differently), I generally have the same advice for how to prep the day before the test.

The following 7 points worked for hundreds of students, and I'm ready to wager that it'll work for you too.

For those who care at all -

the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) is an extremely efficient test. It does what it is suppose to do very well, very quick and very accurately.

What is the LSAT suppose to measure? Well, it's suppose to measure how well you will do during the first year of law school. So is a low LSAT score (120) a definite prophecy of your imminent failure in law school? No.

However, if you did get a low LSAT score (120), there is a good chance you will fail. Although imperfect, the LSAT is as perfect as it can get in measuring an individual's success in law school.

My experience has been that the skills required to do well on the LSAT (reading vast and diverse amounts of information, and critically thinking assessing the validity of these arguments/sets-of-facts; reading through dense and boring literature, and pin-pointing the flaws and main-points; quickly thinking of all the different angles and possibilities to a complex problem/situation) are also the skills required to do well in law school.

The only major flaw on the LSAT is the fact that it measures all of this in one sitting. I do believe that some people are not so good standardized test-takers. For these people the pressure of having to sit through a timed test literally chokes them. This is the only drawback to the LSAT's otherwise perfect (my opinion) testing.

Anyone who moans and groans about the LSAT's logic games and how it's irrelevant are simply in denial...trying to make themselves feel better about their failure.

I'm not an elitest; simply a realist.