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Review your academic record before classes start. Have you neglected to take certain courses which might strengthen your transcript? Have you taken demanding courses in your major? Are there some courses which might aid you to do better in law school? Are you computer literate?  \nNOTE: Avoid a weak Junior year. A weakening or declining grade point average will be a negative when your credentials are evaluated. Also, be careful with study abroad or other outside programs. They are attractive experiences for breadth and personal growth, but they can make it difficult to put all of the elements of your program together and to enhance your GPA as much as possible.  \nII. Decide early in the semester how you plan to approach preparation for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Before making a decision, you may want to obtain and take one or more old LSAT exams. These are widely available in various publications. Score the exam you take (be sure to time yourself) . How well you do may determine how you decide to prepare. You have at least four options:  \nA. Do not prepare systematically. You may consider this option, but only if you are very confident that your reading speed, reading comprehension, and test-taking skills will allow you to perform well on the exam.  \nNOTE: The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) which prepares, administers, and grades the exam, claims that the best preparation, according to their studies, is a demanding course load which develops reading and analytic skills over your many years as a student. However, it is not a good idea to consider taking a “real” LSAT asa “practice” test with the intention of taking the exam over again. Not only is this approach expensive (registering for the LSAT costs over $100), but many schools will average your two scores in assessing your performance. In other words, it’s not like the SAT, where the colleges may only look at your higher score. If you take an actual LSAT for practice and bomb it, the law schools are going to know your score.  \nB. Develop your own self-study program. Obtain old exams and familiarize yourself with the exam. The LSAC offers a study book, as do many other publications …[www.lsac.org](www.lsac.org).  \nNOTE: At a minimum, you should study old LSATs to become familiar with the exam’s format. You do not want to try to get comfortable with the format while grappling with the questions when you take the exam for the first time. Remember – it is a timed test, which works against slow reading or slow comprehension of written material.  \nC. Take a commercial course. These are offered by for-profit organizations such as Kaplan and Princeton Review. These organizations claim that, according to their research, students following their programs score higher than they would if they had not taken the programs. LSAC and other researchers dispute these claims.  \nKeep in mind that the LSAT isn’t a substantive test of legal knowledge. It is you basic standardized test, set up with certain techniques …and, yes, certain tricks (the test-writers are trying to seduce test-takers with attractive answers that “look right” but are in fact wrong) . The prep courses are about training you to recognize these techniques and tricks. Just about any prep course instructor can take an LSAT, cold, and get a 180 … because they know the tricks. Their job is to teach the tricks to you.  \nInvestigate this carefully. Make up your mind whether the costs of the program (this year the charge is roughly $800) are worth the potential reward of a higher score. Then again, it may also be worth thinking about the prep course question like this …if you are prepared to invest three years and over $100,000 to attend law school, perhaps you should be prepared to invest a little more money in getting in  \nNOTE: Some students believe that attending a preparation cou","cbCainq90v2EDpUT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainq90v2EDpUT","pdf",29557,"English","# JUNIOR YEAR, FALL SEMESTER\n## I. Review your academic record before classes start\n## II. Decide early how to approach LSAT preparation\n## III. Research law schools and their programs and admission standards\n## CONCLUSION","[{\"question\":\"Why should students review their academic record before classes start?\",\"answer\":\"The timetable advises checking whether any courses were missed that could strengthen credentials. 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