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Camilli  \nLaw School Admission Council  \nAnn Gallagher  \nLaw School Admission Council  \nApril 2021  \nLSAT Takers and Khan Academy Preparation  \nAbstract  \nFree online Law School Admission Test (LSAT) preparation resources from the Law School Admission Council and Khan Academy have been widely utilized by LSAT and LSAT-Flex test takers. In September 2020, nearly 70,000 individuals engaged with Khan Academy’s Official LSAT® Prep platform. The purpose of this study was to examine the potential effects of engagement on actual LSAT performance. Our analyses showed that a higher level of engagement (measured in terms of practice time and number of practice exams taken) was associated with higher performance on the LSAT. These results held not only for the overall population but also across multiple demographic subgroups. The results also showed that the performance of test takers with lower initial practice exam scores was associated with slightly higher LSAT score gains per practice minute, indicating that these students benefitted at least as much as students who scored higher initially. Because this was a quasi-experimental controlled study, the possibility of alternative influences on LSAT performance cannot be ruled out. However, we believe that engagement with the Khan Academy platform is currently the best explanation for the LSAT score increases observed in this study.  \nIntroduction  \nFree online Law School Admission Test (LSAT) preparation resources from the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) and Khan Academy have been widely utilized by LSAT and LSAT-Flex test takers. In September 2020, nearly 70,000 individuals spent time on Khan Academy’s Official LSAT® Prep platform. Thousands of official practice questions from real tests are available, and learners can create a personalized practice plan tailored to their strengths and weaknesses. Interactive lessons, problem sets, timed practice exams, and videos engage learners in making real progress toward their goals. The Khan platform (Figure 1) is designed to build confidence in the learning process for prospective test takers while teaching the fundamental reasoning skills that are central to both legal education and academic work.  \nFIGURE 1. Khan Academy’s Official LSAT Prep platform  \nOne purpose of this preliminary study was to examine usage of the Khan Academy test-prep platform and to test the hypothesis that such usage has a positive effect on LSAT performance. However, we caution that the research design is not a true experiment in which individuals are randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions (Shadish et al. , 2002)—though a number of potentially confounding variables were controlled through regression analysis. While we believe Khan usage is the best explanation for our findings, the possibility of alternative explanations cannot be ruled out (Grosz et al. , 2020) . A second purpose of this study is to determine whether the association between level of Khan usage and LSAT performance differed across racial, ethnic, and gender subgroups.  \nLiterature Review  \nResearch in the field of test preparation shows that while students generally engage in some form of test-prep study, they often have unequal access to costly testprep services. Powers (1998) surveyed a random sample of students registered to take the SAT to determine whether the availability and use of a variety of SAT-prep programs provided access and learning opportunities to students without adequate family resources or income. Results of the survey indicated that some methods of test prep were more frequently cited than others, including taking the PSAT (Preliminary SAT) and utilizing test-prep materials provided by the College Board, whereas other, more resource-intensive methods were used less often and were likely beyond the means of average test takers. 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