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Improving Your LSAT Score

Improving your LSAT score is a matter of preparing adequately (by learning LSAT techniques and practicing those techniques until they become second nature), then applying them on test day.  Poor scores are usually a matter of inadequate preparation or test day anxiety.  

Occasionally the problem arises from cognitive or physical limitations. In some instances I will be available for private tutoring to overcome a disability, at a rate of $500 a day plus expenses.

"I'm Just Not Good at the LSAT!"

Often the person contacting me about a poor LSAT score asks, "Why can't they understand that I'm just not good at standardized tests?"  I've given a lot of different answers to that question, but the best reason is that the LSAT measures skills you'll need to be a lawyer -- language and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work well under pressure.  If you're so bad at these processes that you score too low to get into any law school, you probably will have trouble with law school and being a lawyer as well.  So learn them now, before you've wasted $100,000 to find out law just isn't your thing.  

If your LSAT score is high enough to get into law school, but not into THE law school, consider further preparation.

"Why Are You Saying This Now?"

"Duh, Loretta, I've already got my score.  It's too late to change it."

"No it's not!  If you want to change it now, you can.  You have months to improve your vocabulary, to learn how to think, to teach yourself that rushing, freezing and second-guessing don't work and that staying calm does."

"I don't want to retake the LSAT."

"Oh.  Okay.  Then you'll probably have to settle for a lower-ranked school."

"But why can't they look at my other stuff instead?"

"Because you want a top tier school, and you define it by a USNWR rank, and USNWR ranks by LSAT scores and yield rates.  You bought into this circular reasoning, so you now you're stuck with it."