Professor Derek Muller at Pepperdine University School of Law recently contacted LSAC to find out which college majors get the best (and worst) LSAT scores.
His findings:
His findings:
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Free LSAT Quiz: LSAT or Kanye West?
Who said it - the LSAT or Kanye West?
1. “Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good?”
Can Playing This Memory Game Increase Your LSAT Score?
The evidence (a study from 2008) suggests that by playing a game called "Dual N-Back," kids were able to improve their nonverbal IQ scores by an average of 10 points.
LSAT Video: Hitler Reacts to Getting His LSAT Score
LSAT Blog reader kmalina7 created this great LSAT-themed parody of the movie Downfall and graciously allowed me to share it with all of you:
Please thank kmalina7 and post your thoughts in the comments below!
Please thank kmalina7 and post your thoughts in the comments below!
Law School Study Partners: Pick Hot Chick, Not Smart Chick?
"Mr. Law School" gives some questionable advice about how to pick a law school study partner in his YouTube video, "Pick the Hot Chick NOT the smart chick" (video also below the quote). Thoughts?He says:
In law school, there's gonna be a lot of classes where you gotta work with a partner. Some might say, 'hey - pick somebody who's smart,' but that's not the advice I'm gonna give you. Guys out there - what I want you to do is, pick the hottest chick possible...
Is it an enjoyable experience to do law school work? No. It's not enjoyable. But, it'll make it that much better when you have to do the work having a hot chick next to you. Working with her, seeing her every day, maybe you can get her to go booze after. Who the hell knows? But it could lead to something.
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Do any of the hot and smart ladies reading this have some thoughts on Mr. Law School's advice?
And guys out there - what sort of study partners do you plan to pick? Will you do what Mr. Law School suggests?
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Read some Law School Diaries for other takes on the law school experience.
Photo of Tina Fey via Wikimedia Commons
Taking the February 2011 LSAT? Good luck!
February 2011 LSAT-takers, good luck to you all!Lisa writes:
Thanks for the blog and all of the valuable information. I've made considerable progress with your help. The LSAT took over my life for several months and now that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I made these cookies last night. Wish I could share them with everyone taking the test on Saturday. Good luck to everyone.Lisa, I wish we could all eat them, too!
They look delicious, and I think most of us would find it deeply satisfying to eat the LSAT.
Tried it with LSAT PrepTests before, but I think your cookies would taste better.
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Here are some tips about LSAT Test Day.
LSAT PrepTest 43 / June 2004 LSAT - Funny Review
I came across this funny review of LSAT PrepTest 43 (the June 2004 LSAT) on Amazon and thought you guys would get a kick out of it:In contrast to The Official LSAT PrepTest 42, which started in such a strong and entertaining fashion, only to peter out midway through, and this title's sequel The Official LSAT PrepTest 44, which lacks the focused coherence that makes the best titles of this series without peer, The Official LSAT PrepTest 43 manages to get everything just right.
Other reviewers may disagree, but I think this could well be the most exciting book of the series --- even better perhaps than the seminal The Official LSAT PrepTest 18, which most admirers of this collection have long held as the most outstanding volume of PrepTest yet assembled, not just for the LSAT, but for any aptitude test in any field.
I can't speak highly enough of The Official LSAT PrepTest 43. It's a marvelous, life-changing PrepTest guide.
LSAT Blog now in Google Search Suggestions / Autocomplete
A while ago, Google's search suggestions revealed that some of you think the LSAT is bullshit.I just discovered that you guys have been doing some thinking about me lately. Thanks to you guys and your searches, LSAT Blog is now part of Google's search suggestions, too.
Just type in the word "LSAT," and LSAT Blog now shows up as one of the suggestions.
Type in "the LSAT",
and LSAT Blog shows up 2nd.Here's some info about the other search suggestions, for those who are still searching:
LSAT test dates
LSAT scores
LSAT prep
Can't provide you guys with info about "the last stand," though. Too many things out there with that name. Would love to see a movie or game called "The LSAT Stand," though. It'd probably involve firing conditional arrows at LSAT PrepTests.
December 2010 LSAT Score Release Comic Strip
LSAT Blog reader Schopenhauer already brought us a hilarious comic strip about his experience taking the December 2010 LSAT.
He's back with another one. This time, it's about the experience of waiting for his LSAT score and finally getting it back.
Please thank him in the comments for applying his artistic abilities and humor to the topic we all care so deeply about, the LSAT.
He's back with another one. This time, it's about the experience of waiting for his LSAT score and finally getting it back.
Please thank him in the comments for applying his artistic abilities and humor to the topic we all care so deeply about, the LSAT.
LSAT Blog on Twitter: Like Celebrities?
LSAT Blog is on Sometimes, when you're on a Twitter user's profile, Twitter will recommend similar users to check out.
However, its recommendations aren't always the most accurate. For example, I'm apparently similar to Khloe Kardashian:
I have been trying to emulate her on LSAT Blog as much as possible - I just didn't think Twitter had noticed...
Below are a few other Twitter users I'm apparently similar to, but I just don't see the resemblance. Any ideas?
LSAT Blog's similar to Perez Hilton:
LSAT Blog's similar to Lil Wayne:
LSAT Blog's similar to Soulja Boy:
LSAT Blog's similar to Nicki Minaj:
LSAT Blog's similar to Diddy:
LSAT Blog's similar to 50 Cent:
I just don't get it...where are all the invitations to red carpet events? Do I have to drop an album first or something?
You Know You've Been Studying Too Much For The LSAT When...
I posted this status update on LSAT Blog's Facebook Page last week. Many of you commented with your own jokes and experiences.Here are some of my favorites:
"EVERYTHING you read or hear turns into a logical reasoning question. :P"
"You are asked to leave a wedding because you insist that Bob can't sit next to Nancy because Nancy can't sit next to Bob's sister. And you'll be damned if that rule is violated."
"You dissect your friend's argument and proceed to tell your friend how you could strengthen or weaken it."
"When you can't seem to separate yourself from it. When you are not doing it you feel weird, empty, like the earth stopped moving...............sike. I really can't wait to be done with it."
"I still wonder what it'll feel like to study too much for it! :D"
"You go through the TSA security line with silver-lined underwear, just to get some human contact with the outside world."
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You know you've been studying too much for the LSAT when...
Leave a comment and let me know!
Harvard Law School Acceptance: Legally Blonde Video
In Legally Blonde, Elle Woods (played by Reese Witherspoon) gets a 179 on the LSAT and is accepted to Harvard Law School.
The 1st person out there in LSAT Nation to leave a comment with the PrepTest # / date of the Logic Game described at 0:31 in this video gets a virtual fist-bump.
LSAT Blog Store
I wanted to start an LSAT-themed airline, but investors said to start with something smaller.So, I decided to make some LSAT-themed shirts, hoodies, and mugs instead.
Check 'em out!
Shirts
True, LSAT shirts aren't the best clubbing attire. However, they're a great morale-booster for Test Day and your practice tests in the weeks before your exam.
Oh, and did I mention a recent survey showing Lucky LSAT Shirts™ are 5000% luckier than regular T-shirts?*
I know they're lucky because I stole them from a leprechaun.
Not only will you be better prepared than the kid who brings 15 erasers, but you'll look damn sexy at the same time.
After Test Day, they'll help you get through the 3-week-wait for your score. However, it is not recommended to wear the same Lucky LSAT Shirt™ for the entire 3 weeks without washing.
*Survey may be flawed due to biased questions.
(Ex of flaw: PrepTest35-Oct 02, S1, Q15=p224 in Next 10)
Mugs
You can now get Lucky LSAT Mugs™ for coffee, tea, and beer.
Lucky LSAT Coffee/Tea Mug:
Use for coffee or tea while studying to help you stay awake and focused.
According to recent studies, coffee/tea is 3000% more effective* in a Lucky LSAT Mug™, and you'll never have to get up to pee.
*Studies may be flawed due to contact between control group and experimental group.
(Ex of flaw: PrepTest 38-Oct 02, S4, Q13=p345 in Next 10)
Lucky LSAT Beer Mug:
"Negate" potential hangover effects and make it through the 3 weeks between Test Day and the score release date.
You know how keeping books under your pillow allows you to study while sleeping?
A poll of hot young things at the local pub found that drinking your beer out of a Lucky LSAT Beer Mug™ makes you 7000% more attractive*.
Every drink you have from this mug while waiting the 3 weeks after Test Day increases your score by half a point!
*Poll may be flawed due to unrepresentative sample.
(Ex of flaw: PrepTest 30-Dec 99, S4, Q5=p71 in Next 10)
Also see:
Keychains, Magnets, Stickers, and Buttons
(Like much of this post, the use of ™ is a joke. The stuff is real and awesome, though.)
LSAT Blog Update: June 2010 LSAT
Many of you took the June 2010 LSAT earlier this week. Hope it went well!Some other bloggers reported the following news:
Claire blasted Party and Bullshit in the USA while driving through the projects on the way home from her test center. She also wrote that many at her test center didn't do so hot:
One thing is for certain: I did better than the woman near me who ran out of the room screaming and crying during hour 4. And the 27 people who bailed out at the break!
Cushman passed the time by picturing everyone in suits (I thought you're supposed to picture everyone naked, but whatever):
I mean, since we were all there to take the LSAT, which is to get into law school, which produces lawyers who wear suits, I figured it’d be fun to see what everyone looked like in a suit.
Christian's Test Day featured several celebrities:
-Augustine of Hippo during breakfast
-Josh Ritter on the drive to Test Day
-Jesus, among working other miracles, helped Christian cheat (irony?)
-Bono joined all the others in an impromptu concert
Choice quote:
Jesus is in the desk next to me. He looks pretty calm, but I know deep down he would rather not take this test.
Elizabeth said:
I peed five times in the 30 minutes I had before starting the test.
Clay kept things in perspective with his religious beliefs:
who cares if I blow this test out of the water and get a 170-something or if I bomb it completely. As long as I wake up tomorrow and know that God loves me, is saving me, and I worship him with my life then anything else really is just....something else.Greg took the LSAT the day after competing in a triathlon. Needless to say, he had a tough time doing both:
I'm not taking the LSAT the day after doing any race again.Juan Diaz, the boxer, decided not to take it yet, having similar difficulties balancing his training with LSAT prep:
I wanted to make sure I was scoring a little higher than the average so if something was to go wrong on test day, I've already calculated those factors...I don't think I was prepared to the fullest capacity I could've been. I started training and working out, it started getting a little tougher.
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How'd the big day go for you?
Photo by 10350347@N06 / ATT by N.C.
How to Wait a Long Time for Your LSAT Score
LSAT scores will come back in about 3 weeks.Until then, how do you keep busy so you don't go crazy?
The following are a couple of random suggestions in no particular order:
-Take up a hobby like model trains or scrapbooking (kidding).
-Beat the Pac-Man game on Google without losing any lives.
-Catch up on all the current events you missed out on while studying.
-Catch up on TV shows.
-Catch up with friends.
-Exercise. I read the book "Born to Run" in March and it inspired me to take up long-distance running. I'm now training for a marathon. Exercise also really boosts your mood to get those endorphins flowing. I've found running to be very rewarding because you improve your ability to run long distances remarkably quickly (among other reasons, of course).
-If you're one of those people who just can't relax, you may want to research law schools, start thinking about your personal statement (also see these personal statement tips), and figure out what kind of LSAT score you'll need given your GPA. Law School Predictor is a great tool for this.
Read random websites. (See 7 Ways to Waste Time During LSAT Prep.)
Photo by sebastianfritzon
LSAT Logic of a Spam Email Scam
In this LSAT Blog post, I analyze two similar emails as if they were Logical Reasoning arguments. Both ended up in my spam folder (with good reason).Here's the first, edited for brevity:
It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me, Please forgive this unusual manner to contact you, but this particular letter/email is of exceptional and private nature, as by virtue of my position in Hang Seng Bank - Hong Kong.
i have a lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. I will need you to assist me in executing a business project from our bank worth US$25.5 Million.
Here's the second, edited for brevity:
There is a sum of $19,500,000.00 in my bank Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong. There were no beneficiaries stated concerning these funds which means no one would ever come to claim it. That is why I ask that we work together.I was excited about the first email until I got the second. The chances of getting two similar, yet unusual, proposals a day apart seemed highly unlikely, suggesting a scam.
I solicit for your assistance in effecting this transaction. I intend to give 30% of the total funds as compensation for your assistance. I will notify you on the full transaction and details of the transaction on receipt of your response if interested, And I shall send you the details and necessary procedures with which to make the transfer.
(Ok, I'm getting serious now. As much as I want to believe that you're just reading this blog for fun, you're probably reading it for help with your LSAT prep.)
Comparing the emails
After receiving both emails, I decided to compare the two since they make similar arguments.
Go back and read both, considering the strength of each argument as you read. Which makes a better case? Which email's argument is better-supported?
Basically, think about each email as if it were a Logical Reasoning stimulus.
First email
-The first part:
It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me, Please forgive this unusual manner to contact youThis functions as a counterpremise. The spammer begins by acknowledging a weakness in the argument. Spammers understand most people are skeptical of anything in their spam mail folders. By pointing this out, the sender hopes to appear more legitimate. By pointing out that this is "unusual," the spammer tries to make us think that he isn't sending these kinds of emails all the time.
-The second part:
this particular letter/email is of exceptional and private nature, as by virtue of my vantage position in Hang Seng Bank - Hong Kong.The spammer begins to give evidence as to why he is sending this email. It's "exceptional" and "private." The fact that he has a position at the bank makes us more likely to believe the third part.
-The third part:
i have a lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. I will need you to assist me in executing a business project from our bank worth US$25.5 Million.The first sentence here isn't too important - it's basically just a background/filler sentence meant to get us interested. However, the second part pushes the envelope. Saying "I will need you to assist me" struck me as an unsupported conclusion. The author (spammer) offers no evidence as to why he needs me in particular. What special qualifications do I hold? Why can't the spammer carry out this "business project" on his own?
One principle that would justify this argument is:
If someone has a "vantage position" in a bank, then he will be incapable of executing a business project on his own and will require the assistance of the LSAT tutor who runs LSAT Blog to carry out said business project.
Second email
-The first part:
There is a sum of $19,500,000.00 in my bank Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong. There were no beneficiaries stated concerning these funds which means no one would ever come to claim it. That is why I ask that we work together.By itself, the first sentence is background. However, when combined with the 30% figure mentioned later in the stimulus, this becomes a reason (evidence) for me to work with the spammer.
We can rephrase second sentence to read, "Because there were no beneficiaries...no one would ever come to claim it."
"No beneficiaries" serves as evidence for the subconclusion that "no one would ever come to claim it." Then, "no one would ever come to claim it" serves as evidence for the main conclusion that we should work together.
-The second part:
I solicit for your assistance in effecting this transaction.This is the conclusion. It's a restatement of the previous sentence asking we work together. Just like real LSAT Logical Reasoning stimuli and Reading Comp passages, sometimes the author is redundant.
-The third part:
I intend to give 30% of the total funds as compensation for your assistance. I will notify you on the full transaction and details of the transaction on receipt of your response if interested, And I shall send you the details and necessary procedures with which to make the transfer.The 30% figure is giving a reason to engage in the deal, but the rest is just housekeeping (organizational) stuff. Nothing special.
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So, which email makes a better argument?
First email
I like that it used a counterpremise. It helped to ease my concerns.
The fact that the spammer has a position in the bank seems pretty promising.
However, this spammer made a serious unsupported claim that he needed me specifically to carry out the project. The spammer didn't provide any evidence to support this.
Second email
I enjoyed the evidence -> subconclusion -> main conclusion format. It was very smooth and logical, and a lot clearer than some Logical Reasoning stimuli.
I also liked that this spammer didn't make any big unsupported conclusions. However, I was disappointed that this scam only involved $19.5 million, of which I'd get a measly 30%.
The 1st email involved $25.5 million. Although that one didn't say what percentage I'd get, it's got me expecting a larger sum for my participation in any international banking scams.
The Verdict
I've decided not to participate in either scam, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled.
I'm sending both spammers a link to this blog post in the hopes it'll help them make better arguments the future.
(If you need to reach the spammers, email #1 is from jonchochan@hangseng.com, and email #2 is from songlile@jw.liyang.gov.cn)
See fun facts about the spam industry.
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Please join me in thanking the spammers for the supplying raw material for this week's blog post.
Photo by foolswisdom / CC BY-NC 2.0
7 Ways To Waste Time During LSAT Prep
With the June LSAT approaching, some of you might experience burnout.Here are 7 funny websites to help you waste time while you're taking a break.
(Warning: some of these sites contain foul language.)
1. Hyperbole and a Half (esp. 7 Games You Can Play With A Brick)
2. xkcd (esp. this - put your mouse over any xkcd comic for a punchline)
3. My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable (esp. Get Your War On)
4. The Onion's YouTube Videos
5. Best of Craigslist
6. Overheard in New York (Favorites)
7A. Look at this f*cking hipster (some images not safe for work)
7B. Hipster Puppies
7C. Brokers With Hands On Their Faces
More fun posts on LSAT Blog:
LSAT Logic of a Spam Email Scam
The LSAT is Hard, Easy, Bullshit, and Unfair
Funny Lawyer Commercials
Funny LSAT and Law School YouTube Videos
LSAT Blog Bingo Game Board
