[nabs-l] Have any of you taken the LSATS?

[Dennis Clark]

Hi Justin,
Great to hear from you.  As a matter of efficiency, it would be great to be 
able to do the LSAT during college summers, but I don't know if that is 
really possible.  I think the Kaplan course as an example, ran for six weeks 
and it may have been even longer.  But that schedule is for sighted people. 
It will take longer for someone blind because the study materials will not 
be sufficiently accessible, or at least accessible to the degree that you 
will need them to be.  For example, the section on logic games involves 
diagrams, so getting the skills you will need from the training materials 
will take extra time.  Moreover, you will need to develop   a technique that 
works for you to do logic games on the exam.  Once you have developed the 
knowledge and skills offered in the course, you will need to take endless 
practice exams to apply those skills so that you consistently get the exam 
scores you will need.  That will probably take more time than remains in the 
Summer.  It's important not to feel pressured to take the exam to keep to an 
arbitrary schedule, because the ultimate objective is to get into law 
school.  I have often recommended to people both sighted and blind, who have 
already scheduled the LSAT exam that they should cancel their scheduled exam 
and forfeit the money, because they are not yet ready to do their best on 
the exam.  One plan that I could get on board with would be to Take Kaplan 
during a particular summer, then throughout the next school year continue 
taking sample LSAT exams.  Then the following Summer, continue cramming 
early in the summer then take the LSAT at the end of the summer.  I was 
fortunate in that I prepared for law school after I had finished college and 
grad school and I was working.  Where are you located?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Have any of you taken the LSATS?


> Hi Dennis,
> Thank you for your comments.  I currently am a Junior at an
> Undergraduate College.  For about the past 2 years I've been highly
> involved at my current college and the community college I transfered
> from on Disability rights.  So, towards the end of the Community
> College experience I decided I would really enjoy this.  I've heard
> from 2 different sources of when to take them.  One said Summer
> between Junior and Senior.  Another one said the semester before you
> graduate.  I definitely will look into those ideas.
> Thanks again,
> Justin
>
> On 11/20/10, Dennis Clark <dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Hello Justin,
>> If one is serious about going to law school, you should not take the LSAT
>> until you have taken a training course such as Stanly Kaplan, and then 
>> only
>> after you have taken so many practice exams that your score has leveled 
>> off,
>> and that score is high enough to get you into the law schools you are
>> targeting.  If your score is not high enough at that point then you need 
>> to
>> get more training to help you figure out what you are missing that is
>> causing your score to be lower than you are shooting for.  Also you 
>> should
>> not even apply to take the LSAT and request accommodations until you have
>> done all this because you will then know precisely what accommodations 
>> you
>> need to be successful on the LSAT based on your own experience taking 
>> sample
>> exams.  Getting into law school is not easy, so preparing for that goal
>> should be done with the same amount of effort that an athlete expends 
>> when
>> preparing for the Olympics.  People who are not willing to do this will 
>> not
>> get into a great law school, and they shouldn't because they will be
>> terrible lawyers.  Are you currently in high school, college or grad 
>> school?
>> Your question is a good one, and unfortunately too many people who say 
>> their
>> goal is law school take the LSAT casually, just to see how well they will
>> do.  This is a very bad idea, because that score will be preserved and
>> reported to law schools, even if you take the exam a second or third time
>> and do better.  Feel free to contact me off line if you want to talk 
>> about
>> law as you are preparing for your career.
>> All the best,
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:31 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Have any of you taken the LSATS?
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Has anyone on this list taken the LSATS?  I know I definitely want to
>>> take them, but I was wondering when is best to take them.  How
>>> accessible are they and how would you go about requesting services for
>>> adaption?
>>> Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
>>> Justin
>>>
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