I cannot tell you how much this post means to me. I am an extremely hard worker, I’ve had a 4.0 for my entire undergrad program, and I work full-time just to survive. This test has made me question not only my academic abilities, but also my character as a person. I have studied through 7sage, youtube, many practice tests, the LSAT trainer, and regularly do drills through the Kahn site. Despite literally hundreds of hours of training, the time requirement for the LSAT has been absolutely crushing me. If I have just a couple extra minutes my scores improve dramatically but as soon as you add that timer in the corner of the screen my mind falls apart. The test isn’t actually testing my ability to solve these problem sets, as I get nearly perfect scores when the time requirement is extended. J.Y. Tells us that the only way to get faster at LG is to drill the inferences over and over again. What are we really testing? How skilled a student is at solving these problems, or how much free time they had to run drills?
This test is a ruthless gatekeeper that keeps the working class out of law school. JY does an amazing job of teaching logic games, but even he admits that students should study for up to a year if they expect to get a good score on the LSAT. For a blue collar, working class, non-traditional student, this is simply impossible. I’m barely surviving financially as I juggle a full-time course load and a 40 hour work week. I simply cannot afford to quit my job, or take a year off to just study for this test. It makes me feel like a failure in ways that I have never felt in my life. Keep in mind that I am an extremely hard worker who has many academic awards, but I simply don’t have the time to drill these problem sets for hours and hours every week. There are only so many hours in the day, and when I come home drenched in sweat it takes everything I have to force myself to hit the books to stay on top of my courses.
The LSAT absolutely acts as a gatekeeper for the working class. I really appreciate your thoughts, and finding someone who is going through similar struggles is like a cool sip of water in the burning hell that is the LSAT.
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I cannot tell you how much this post means to me. I am an extremely hard worker, I’ve had a 4.0 for my entire undergrad program, and I work full-time just to survive. This test has made me question not only my academic abilities, but also my character as a person. I have studied through 7sage, youtube, many practice tests, the LSAT trainer, and regularly do drills through the Kahn site. Despite literally hundreds of hours of training, the time requirement for the LSAT has been absolutely crushing me. If I have just a couple extra minutes my scores improve dramatically but as soon as you add that timer in the corner of the screen my mind falls apart. The test isn’t actually testing my ability to solve these problem sets, as I get nearly perfect scores when the time requirement is extended. J.Y. Tells us that the only way to get faster at LG is to drill the inferences over and over again. What are we really testing? How skilled a student is at solving these problems, or how much free time they had to run drills?
This test is a ruthless gatekeeper that keeps the working class out of law school. JY does an amazing job of teaching logic games, but even he admits that students should study for up to a year if they expect to get a good score on the LSAT. For a blue collar, working class, non-traditional student, this is simply impossible. I’m barely surviving financially as I juggle a full-time course load and a 40 hour work week. I simply cannot afford to quit my job, or take a year off to just study for this test. It makes me feel like a failure in ways that I have never felt in my life. Keep in mind that I am an extremely hard worker who has many academic awards, but I simply don’t have the time to drill these problem sets for hours and hours every week. There are only so many hours in the day, and when I come home drenched in sweat it takes everything I have to force myself to hit the books to stay on top of my courses.
The LSAT absolutely acts as a gatekeeper for the working class. I really appreciate your thoughts, and finding someone who is going through similar struggles is like a cool sip of water in the burning hell that is the LSAT.