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LSAT

Perhaps the most important work of The LSAC, and certainly the best known, is the administration of the LSAT, a standardized test required of all applicants to all LSAC-member schools. The test is offered at numerous test sites throughout the United States and abroad four times each year in June, early fall (either late September or early October), December, and February. The June test is given on a Monday afternoon, while the others are on Saturday mornings with special Monday administrations offered for Saturday Sabbath observers. Since its introduction in 1948, the LSAT has undergone several revisions in length, question types, and scoring scale. The current version was introduced June 1991 and has not been modified since then. Over the past several years, the test development staff at Newtown has worked on a long-term project to create a computerized version of the LSAT. While introduction of such a test is now technologically feasible, the LSAC does not believe there is presently sufficient reason to do so. In the meantime, new question types for the pen-and-paper test are under active development with several being field tested in 2002-2003. When these new question types are likely to appear in the actual test is not clear, but changes within the next several years are not unlikely. The following links will provide in depth knowledge of the test’s content, intended purpose, grading scales, and test preparation strategies.

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