(This post is based upon the assumption that you're taking the LSAT less than a year before you intend to apply to law school. If you're planning way ahead, this won't apply to you.)Benefits of taking the June LSAT
- It's better for your law school admissions chances because it allows you to apply at the beginning of the admissions cycle. Law schools typically begin accepting applications September 1, September 15, October 1, or October 15. Applying at the beginning of the cycle is especially important for top law schools.
- You can be done with the LSAT sooner. If the June LSAT goes well, you can be done with it for good and relax this summer.
- You have more chances to retake. If the June LSAT doesn't go well (or if you're sick, have a family issue, someone vomits on you during the test, etc.) and you have to retake, you can retake in October and still apply relatively early in the cycle.
- The June LSAT is the only LSAT offered in the afternoon. No need to get on an early sleep schedule. If you take it outside a city, you may not have to go to the trouble of sleeping away from home the night before.
- The June LSAT is the only LSAT offered on a Monday. Normally, Sabbath observers have to take the LSAT on a different date than everyone else, and LSAC does not release Sabbath tests (scroll to bottom). This means Sabbath test-takers never get to see their exam booklet and answer sheet. However, because the regular June LSAT is on a Monday, all test-takers (except those outside North America) get to see their exam booklet and answer sheet. This is useful for planning a retake.
Benefits of taking the October LSAT
- Maybe you like getting up super-early, and the afternoon is too late for you to think.
- You don't have to (seriously) begin your studying now.
- Additionally, if you're a college student, consider:
* The June LSAT is offered soon after most schools' final exams typically end. You might not want to divide your attention between finals and LSAT studying in April and May.
* The October LSAT allows you the entire summer to study without being distracted by schoolwork (if you don't take summer classes). You still have to get through the first 1.5 months of the semester or so, but things probably won't be too intense that early in the semester. If you use the summer wisely, you can get through the vast majority of your LSAT studying then.
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What do you all think? What's impacting your decision re: June vs. October?
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I am so happy the June LSAT is at 1 PM...I have never been able to function before 10 AM at the earliest and I think that really messed me up the first time I took the test!
ReplyDeleteI want to get it done early enough so that applying to bartending school is still an option if I get a bad score. I intend to take it only once. Does truck driving school have a PhD program?
ReplyDeleteI know a bartender who made $72K last year. Starting salaries for lawyers is $45K outside of big law.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous' response is like an LSAT LR question:
ReplyDeleteStudent: I want to get a job that pays well, so I think I'll become a lawyer. Lawyers have large earning potential and the topic of the law excites me.
Anonymous: I know a bartender who made $72K last year. Starting salaries for lawyers is $45K.
Anonymous' response is flawed in that...
Actually, the Student's statement looks like a Necessary Assumption problem.
DeleteAnonymous' statement looks like a flawed assumption, but I'm sure it qualifies as an argument.
Taken together it doesn't seem to be an adequate Point at Issue problem either, because there's no conclusion in Anonymous' post.
Actually let me just fix it:
Student: I want to get a job that pays well, so I think I'll become a lawyer. Lawyers have large earning potential and the topic of the law excites me.
Anonymous: Lawyers do not have large earning potential. I know a bartender who made $72K last year. Starting salaries for lawyers is $45K.
Anonymous' response is flawed in that...
"but I'm sure it qualifies as an argument"
Deletebut I'm NOT sure it qualifies as an argument.
Fixed.
What about, taking the June LSAT will give more time to work on Personal Statements over the summer. Yuup
ReplyDeleteSorry for grammar. Here is edited version, and should make more sense.
ReplyDeleteSteve Schwartz: Robots are known to spam the Comments sections of blogs with superfluous links and ads. Requiring all users to enter and submit characters shown in a randomly generated image to verify that they are not robots will help to prevent this issue.
Which one of the following is an assumption in which Steve Schwartz' argument depends on:
A) A sufficient understanding of computers are necessary to run a blog
B) superfluous links and ads are spam
C) Robots can't read images.
D) People who are legally blind shouldn't use computers
E) Smartphones and tablets can render blogs just as well as computers can.
I would be honored if LSAC were to include a question mentioning me on a future exam.
Deletewow thats actually a really good example
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