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Studying for the LSAT's in the fall. Emily Lazar found she "got to the point where I thought my eyes could roll back in my head and I'd still be able to fill in the right little boxes." That reaction was part of a growing feeling that she spent her time "Supplying the appropriate responses to everything:" she felt a need to plan something to "get me out of this upper-middle-class intellectual rut I've been traveling in for 21 years...
...Frederick Hart states that the undergraduate grade point average "is normally a better indicator of law school performance than is the LSAT...
...that this is not humor at all. It might be called the humor of recognition, a humor that plays upon collective anxieties of a tribe like the Law School by depending on the mere mention of names associated with the collective experience. There is nothing intrinsically funny about "LSAT scores," "Langdell receptionist," or "Roberto Unger." These things make law students laugh the way an itch makes you scratch; it is closer in its workings to irritation than humor...
...company which writes the six-part SAT composed of verbal and math sections and a test of standard written English, holds a predominant position in the testing market. ETS controls well over half the entire testing market, which includes such tests as the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and various professional tests such as bar examinations. Because of its leading role in the testing industry, ETS, which takes in nearly $90 million a year, has been the center of much of the controversy and criticism associated with testing...
...course, LSAT scores, like all results from standardized tests, are secret, dark wonders not meant for overt discussion. After all, phone lines might be bugged and Third World undercover agents could be listening, hoping to gain valuable information about the nation's young people by hearing their test scores...