[blindlaw] text of LSAC's letter to accompany non-standard LSATadministration

[T. Joseph Carter]

Only some practice exams.

Joseph


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:24:09PM -0700, Haben Girma wrote:
> Joseph, have you taken the LSAT?
>
> T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>> I don't see that as entirely practical.
>>
>> The test is visually biased and the stakes could not possibly be  
>> higher.  If you want to take a gamble like that, knowing that the test  
>> is designed for you to fail without the accommodation because it  
>> depends upon visual processing skills, you go right ahead.
>>
>> One of the skills I think people entering college have often failed to  
>> learn is knowing what they can honestly accomplish.  Many believe they  
>> cannot do things that they can and will do.  Some believe they can do  
>> things they cannot.
>>
>> I can already hear the response of, "How will you know until you try?"  
>> My answer is that a test that determines whether or not you are deemed 
>> worthy of a particular career is not the time to be experimenting.  If 
>> you know you can do it with the accommodation, but don't know if you 
>> could do it without, take the accommodation for the LSAT.  It's an 
>> artificial environment with artificial rules and an artificial result.  
>> Accommodations used therein have little bearing on the "real world".
>>
>> Unless any of you have had major cases hinge upon how many gumballs  
>> fit into a given shaped container or the other silliness I've seen on  
>> practice exams.
>>
>> Joseph