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In 1998, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) commissioned a study (http://www.aals.org/reports/validity.html) into the validity of the US News and World Report’s law school rankings. The study pointed out some seemingly fatal flaws of the US News methodology, and recently the ABA has approved certain changes in law schools’ reporting (see ABA journal article of 12/6/2011: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/council_approves_changes_in_law_school_employment_data/). These changes are primarily geared toward employment: one factor in the US Newsrankings is the degree to which law...

The LSAT as a Computer Adaptive Test

Imagine taking the LSAT as a computer-based test instead of on good old-fashioned paper. Generally, when I pitch that to a student, I get a response like:

“Heh, you’re funny.”

or

“What?! They can’t do that! Umm... logic games?”

or

“Nah, not the LSAT. It’s not like the GRE or the GMAT.”

It is true that the LSAT is unlike the GRE and the GMAT, in that its focus is on logical and analytical skills rather than on knowledge of specific subject matter. But is the LSAT so different as to render it completely unsuited to a computer-based format? Probably not...