Yesterday morning, bright and early, I drove down the unplowed highway for a return to the building at UW-Eau Claire where I had roughly 90% of my college classes - Richard E. Hibbard Hall.
The purpose for the pre-dawn visit to the alma mater was to take the law school admission test or LSAT for short. In brief -- that was one tough exam.
Applying for law school is an idea that has always been creeping around in my head -- way, way back there. I had never really taken the idea all that seriously though. It had always seemed like quite the application process for something I wasn't all that sure I wanted to pursue. Truth is, it is quite the application process, and I'm still not all that sure I want to puruse that field. What it comes down to though is that in order for it to even be an option I've got to at least take the test and send in a few applications. I figure that I will get the applications in and then force the decision on accepting the offer (assuming I could even get accepted) further down the road.
Back to the test though: it consists of six 35 minute sessions. Two sections titled Logical Reasoning, two labeled Analytical Reasoning (only of these counts though - the other is basically a placebo), one section on reading comprehension, and a final writing sample. When you factor in breaks and procedural business, it came out to about five hours worth of time yesterday.
I ran through several timed practice tests in preperation as well as tried to develop some strategies for each section. With 25-30 substantial questions for each 35 minute section, timing becomes a big issue. With each practice run things got a little easier so I went into things optimistic yesterday. The logical reasoning, writing sample, and reading comprehension ended up all being in line with my expectations for difficutly, but the anaylitical reasoning ended up being quite a bit to wrap my head around. In talking with others after the test though it seemed like that was the most difficult for others as well.
If you're curious on what the format of the questions are, there's a sample from each question type here.
Now it's a matter of waiting a month for the test results to come back and beginning to gather letters of reccomendation, work on application essays, etc.
Giga-waabamin minawaa.
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3 comments:
I'm sure you did good. Sounds like it took a lot of work to be prepared for that. Good luck!
You are the third of my friends that have decided to go back to law school. Crazy stuff, man. I'll keep my fingers crossed...
i imagine you did great. i think you and law school are a great fit.
was the lsat crazy? i've always kinda thrown around the idea in the back of my head and i checked out some lsat study books from the library earlier this fall - some of the questions in those study books were crazy.
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