[blindlaw] text of LSAC's letter to accompany non-standard LSATadministration
T. Joseph Carter
carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
Tue May 19 06:50:22 UTC 2009
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
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