LSAT Score Previews and More: Updates for July 2020
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Hello, my friends.
I’m Rob Franek, Editor-in-Chief at The Princeton Review.
I’m here today bringing you an update—three updates, actually—about the LSAT.
We’ve published videos about the pandemic-induced switchover to the LSAT-Flex, an online, remotely
proctored version of the LSAT.
If you’re interested in learning more about the exam itself, be sure to give those a watch.
Now we’re here with you to talk about 3 new updates.
The first, which is not much of a surprise, is that the LSAT-Flex will continue to be
offered in August, in lieu of the in-person LSAT scheduled for August 29th in the United
States and Canada.
The LSAT-Flex will be given starting Saturday, August 29th, and continuing over the course
of that week.
Registration is open until July 15th, so if you’re planning to take the August LSAT,
you still have just a bit of time to sign up.
If you’d prefer to wait for an in-person test, you can opt out and get a coupon for
a future test date through April of 2021.
The second update is the one we anticipate you will be glad to hear: LSAC—the Law School
Admission Council, which administers the LSAT—has created a new score preview option.
If you’re a first-time test taker, and you’d like to see your score before deciding whether
to keep it as part of your LSAC transcript that gets reported to schools, you can pay
for that particular privilege.
Score preview will cost $45 for candidates who sign up prior to the first day of testing,
and $75 for candidates who sign up during a specified time period after the conclusion
of the testing period.
(If you’re a first-time test taker who has an approved LSAT fee waiver, you’ll receive
this score preview option free of charge.)
Note that you can’t sign up for score preview after you’ve seen your score, and this option
is only available for first-time test takers.
Should you do this?
If you’re anxious about the test, and you are able to afford it, you certainly can.
But keep in mind that we don’t expect law schools to penalize you for a less-than-optimal
score if you take the exam again and get a better score.
So, you can also opt to wait for your score—and if you don’t do as well as you’d hoped,
you can simply take the exam again—which is what you’d have to do anyway if you were
to cancel your score.
If you take the exam and just know you didn’t do well, you can cancel your score before
seeing it, without having to pay for score preview.
Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide your comfort level.
If you’re wondering when you’ll see your scores, whether you opt to preview or not,
you should expect to get your score around September 18th.
If you opted for the preview option, then you’ll have 6 calendar days to decide if
you want to keep your score.
If you don’t do anything, your scores will automatically get added to your LSAC file.
If you’re interested in purchasing the score preview option, you can do that starting around
August 1.
Finally, here’s the third update I promised: This is in response to requests from law schools—LSAC
is reinstating the requirement for all test takers to complete an LSAT Writing Sample
before they can receive their score for the August LSAT-Flex and any future LSAT or LSAT-Flex
exams.
What this means—and this part is important, folks—is that to get your score on the LSAT-Flex
on September 18th, you’ll need to have completed at least one LSAT Writing sample.
But take some solace in the knowledge that LSAC will open up the LSAT Writing 8 days
prior to each test administration—so you should have plenty of time to take care of
that requirement.
And please note that if you’d like to take the LSAT-Flex but need a loaner device or
a quiet, internet-equipped testing space, LSAC will work with you to try to address
your needs.
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