The Power of Your LSAT Score Report
The following is a guest post by Douglas Groene, an attorney who earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He has been tutoring students preparing for the ACT, SAT, LSAT, GRE, and GMAT for over a decade, and still takes a limited number of private students on Long Island. He is also the founder of http://www.pencilnerd.com a blog about standardized tests, featuring test prep news, commentary, tips, and product reviews.
Very early in my tutoring career, I realized the power of the score report. It’s probably the single best weapon in the big test prep companies’ arsenal. The major companies can give you instant feedback on every detail of your practice test performance. How did you do on matching games? What percent of parallel reasoning argument questions did you get right? Is your performance on assumption questions improving?
Score reports allow you to constantly improve your technique based on feedback, and to sharply focus your study time on the areas that need the most work. Because I wanted to bring this powerful tool to every student and tutor, I created the SCORE MY LSAT page.
Just enter your answers to an LSAT preptest (the real, past LSAT tests published by LSAC), and the program will instantly generate a detailed score report, similar to one you would get from BigPrep. Right now the program goes up to Preptest 38, and I will be adding the rest of the preptests in the coming weeks.
In addition to giving your raw and scaled scores and section stats, the score reports produce attractive bar graphs that depict your performance on each question type within games, arguments, and reading comprehension.
Of course, the score reports are not official and depend on my own categorization of the questions. In some cases, questions are hard to pigeonhole into a single type. For example, a question might ask “which one of the following principles lends the greatest support to the argument?” Is it a principle question or a strengthen question?
In many cases it’s a judgment call, but I tried to be as consistent as possible. I am sure there are a few errors, but luckily about 90% of LSAT questions fit unambiguously into a single category. With feedback for each question type, students can monitor their progress from test to test and allocate their study time accordingly. I hope that students (and tutors) will use the scoring program to get the most out of their LSAT preptests.
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