What is on the LSAT?
This may be the world’s hardest reading and logic test. The LSAT asks you to take in information, analyze it, and apply your analysis quickly and logically. Once you really start to understand it, you’ll see that it is a very well-designed test (as far as standardized tests go), and it is very consistent. Love it or hate it, the LSAT follows its own rules.
You probably already know that the test you’ll take will consist of five sections, each 35 minutes long. At least two will be logical reasoning, at least one reading comprehension, and at least one logic games (also known as analytical reasoning). You’ll take three sections in a row, break for 15 minutes, then finish the remaining two sections. The whole ordeal will take less than three hours if everything goes smoothly.
One of those sections will be the “experimental” section that isn’t fully LSAC approved but in its final trial run stage. You won’t know exactly which one that is, but you’d be able to tell which type of section it was. For example, if you have three logical reasoning sections, one will be the experimental section. The LSAC will analyze the data from test takers and decide which of those questions should be included on subsequent tests.
Before you get your score, you’ll wait in agonizing misery for about four weeks. LSAC will email you your score report on the scheduled day. If your test was “disclosed,” you’ll be able to see how you scored as well as every detail about the test itself. You’ll be given a copy of the test and your answer sheet, so you can see exactly what you got wrong and know you can never, ever take those wrong answers back. Fun! If your test is “undisclosed,” the LSAC will only give you your score and percentile rank for that test administration.