As I mentioned recently, the June LSAT is the only LSAT that's regularly held on a Monday. In October, December, and February, the LSAT is held on a Saturday. (Sabbath observers can always take it on weekdays.)Test-takers are usually happy that the June LSAT is unique because it's the only exam that starts at 1PM, rather than at 9AM.
However, one blog reader recently wrote to me:
Today, I was looking at my registration, and I swear that I had registered for Saturday, but the test is on a Monday. I am really annoyed, since this is not very accommodating for working professionals like myself. Is it normal that all WORKING people have to take a Monday (vacation day) to take the test? Sorry to vent!I suggested:
You could always email LSAC from several pseudonymous email accounts. I estimate it would take 20,000 emails to get them to change the date of the June exam.What do you think?
Will those of you in the 9-to-5 grind be complaining to LSAC about the injustice of having to use a vacation day?
Will those of you working the retail/service industry grind be thanking LSAC for allowing you to take it on a day off?
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"Will those of you working the retail/service industry grind be thanking LSAC for allowing you to take it on a day off?"
ReplyDeleteYes! Well, I work PT as an admin assistant and PT in the service industry. I am also leaving Sunday (maybe Saturday) and staying in a hotel, since my test is an hour away from where I live.
Considering that young professionals working 9=5 jobs are more likely to have better working conditions that those in retail and service jobs, I'd be really annoyed if 9-5ers were whining about the test not accommodating to them, especially since the three other test dates every year are held on a Saturday.
ReplyDeleteThis person is upset that the test doesn't accommodate to them? First, what makes you so special? Second, it does - 3/4 annual tests are on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteYou could have sworn you signed up for SAT 6/6? You didn't. You never did. YOU were wrong. Stop whining, you sound pathetic.
I would rather take it on a Monday--the OP needs to quit whining.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to taking off work (paid personal day) in the pursuit of another career.
ReplyDeleteI'm a 9-5'er, and I'd rather take the LSAT than go to work on a Monday, tbh. Plus, it starts at 1:00 p.m., like you said which is AWESOME.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I really hate my boss/job.
That 9-5er is a WHINER. Future-dissatisfied-law-student-in-debt-up-to-hairline-and-BITTERblogging-joblessly-4-years-from-now alert! lol
ReplyDeleteIf she or he (I really hope it's not a man that's even worse) can't handle the inconvenience of LSAT on a Monday...how are they going to handle the law school inconvenience of one exam for an entire semester of work? The inconvenience of biglaw and smalllaw bosses with biglaw attitudes? lol They should take it as a sign to find another line of work from now.
So, the purpose of calling out this reader's venting comment (however annoying it might be) is to serve as some sort of prep for the humiliation he or she might face in law school?
ReplyDeleteOh my good GOD is this person SERIOUS? There is ONE Monday LSAT in an entire year--everyone who has seriously entertained the idea of law school knows this. You're volunteering to advertise your lack of attention to detail and general ignorance like this? Besides, your mistake is causing your inconvenience--and you're "annoyed" at the LSAC? Next thing I know, you're going to be crying "unfair!" Good luck with law school, and the practice beyond.
ReplyDeleteThere are MANY professionals and people with other serious fulltime obligations, and parents and spouses thereof, making "inconvenient" arrangements and sacrifices to be able to take this Monday exam. Ok, so here's an idea: Don't show up. For the rest of us, that's one less whiny idiot to possibly run into at the workplace in the future.
Whoa there, folks. Let's not engage in name-calling and insults.
ReplyDeleteI didn't call out this reader's venting email so everyone could bash him/her.
I just wanted to get people's thoughts on the fact that it's on a Monday in June. I included that email to present one person's opinion.
If taking the LSAT is that important to you, you would take a day off- even if it takes 4 days, you would do it. Law school is going to take MORE time, so either take your 9-5 or leave good slots to people who REALLY want to go to law school.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Singapore (T from the LSAT diary), and my exam is actually on a Sunday...very lucky for me because I'll have all of Saturday to relax!
ReplyDeleteThe other thing that is interesting is the fact that my test day is the 27th. I guess it must be a different test?
-T
Hey T,
ReplyDeleteYep - international tests are often on a different date than the US/Canada test date. The June exam is the only one that's a few weeks after the North American exam, though.
Yes, it'll be a different test. Even travel by ship would allow enough time for North American test-takers to report secret test info to friends in Asia.
Wow you guys are jerks. I work in a job where it's really difficult to get a day off, and I don't want my employer to know I'm looking at another career, so the Monday test date, while best for admissions, is pain in the ass for me. Now that I've read these comments I'm reconsidering. I don't want to be in school with some of you as classmates.
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