Noon to about 5:30 pm for my administration.

They say 7 hours because the people running it are there for 7 hours, people with disabilities get 53 minutes per section.

Makes sense...thanks. For those without disabilities, 4-5 hours?

If I recall correctly, they spend lots of time telling people how to sharpen pencils and getting official rulings on whether they should kick the guy out who tried to take a piss before the thing started.

Maybe I'm just a cold-hearted bastard, but this never made any ****ing sense to me what-so-ever.

nah i think your right on. "disabilities" means "add" which means you are such a vagina that you have to medically document the fact that you can't pay attention to boring **** very well.

Well, I have nothing against people with ADD. I recognize it's a real disability. But when you are in the real world working for a client, you don't get "extra time" or considerations for having a disability. Why should you on the LSAT?

It's also people who are blind or have like physical problems(e.g. palsy making handling a pencil harder). Those people deserve the extra time.

student: Im not very good at these logic puzzles no matter how hard I try. Can I get some extra time? It's too tough with these time constraints!

advisor: Im sorry, then maybe law school just isnt for you. We design the test to challenge students in areas that will be relevant to the challenges they'll face in law school and beyond.

student: Yea, but my psychologist said i have LDS. It's a newly recognized condition and it stands for Logic Deficiency Syndrome. He said I need more time to think my way through them, but that Im just as smart as everyone else as long as I have twice as much time.

advisor: Oh, LDS? Of course you can have the extra 30 minutes. We are very sympathetic to that particular shortcoming now that it has a trendy acronym label.

There was a girl at my law school from some European country, and because English was technically her second language they gave her an extra 20 minutes on every exam even though she had been speaking and reading English most of her life.

20 extra minutes would be amazing. I know I would get 100% in the logic games.

I saw a guy in a safari jeep all decked out with camping/survival gear parked in a handicap spot. Really bothered me.

Sigh I'm taking it Saturday morning and now I'm going to be tilted all test about how I'd ace the logic games if I had an extra 20 minutes.

I've gotten between 164 and 172 in the past couple weeks on practice tests (lol variance) depending on how well I guessed and how much trouble I had with the logic games.

Run good one time?

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For (hopefully) the last time, you will probably score 2-6 points lower than your last few timed practice tests.

You're nervous. You freak. Etc.

Yep. I freaked out. Clocked in a solid 6 points lower.

However, I have a friend who took the test, got a 154, started studying for a retake and never scored higher than a 160 on a practice test.

He retook it and scored a 165, his highest score ever by 5 points, practice test or real. He, essentially, jumped from auto-reject at this school to having a near full scholarship.

I did better on the rest test than on practice tests too. It depends on your personality, high strung people do worse on the real thing, lazy people do better, etc.

I'm lazy and did worse.

May have had something to do with the test takers verbally asking each other for answers across the room. If in DC, sign up early.

I mean I pretty much knew I would never be an attorney so I had no reason to be nervous.

I am pretty lazy, and I did much worse :-X

I did worse my first test too because I was nervous, my timing was not down, and I misblotted 9 answers. Called LSAC and they said, "welp, better luck next time." Needless to say I was tilted into studying my ass off for 3 months straight and I had a +12 point jump on my next test.

When i took the bar exam I sat there for like 10 minutes at the end of the MC making sure I bubbled everything correctly and didn't miss some secret back page or something.

I do better when I have actual emotions towards something. Get me a little juiced up, ya know? The past week of tests have been hard to feel like I need to do well on them knowing that the real thing is right around the corner.

I understood that schools average the two tests if you take it twice. Is this not the case anymore and they just take your higher score, disregarding the lower one?

I think most schools take your top school. A few say they average, but I suspect the top one still carries more weight.

as far as i know (not a ton), they take your top score if you take it twice, but they average it if you take it thrice. they changed the policy to top score because US News changed their ranking system i heard.