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Kaplan's promotional materials promise, "Kaplan gets you a higher score." TestWell, a Boston-based LSAT company, trumpets its students' 9.5-point average score increase...
...Harvard, test prep courses are big business. Harvard students taking the LSAT and the MCAT increasingly view preparatory courses as a necessity rather than a luxury...
Although they lack hard numbers, House resident tutors estimate that between a third and half of students who take the LSAT take commercial courses to prepare; for the MCAT, as many as 80 percent take courses, according to Winthrop pre-med tutor Allison L. McDonough...
...disparity is explained by the difference in the exams. The LSAT tests reading comprehension, writing and reasoning sections, familiar skills to anyone with a solid SAT score. The MCAT, by contrast, judges test-takers on their ability in the physical and biological sciences...
...actual 'substance' of the LSAT, there isn't any," writes Pforzheimer House pre-law adviser Gene Koo in an e-mail message. "It's not like the MCAT--a lot of it involves reasoning and logic, and that's something that's hard to teach...