Posted: 6/26/2012 6:34:51 PM EDT
| I'm looking to study for the LSAT. Does anybody have any recommendations on study methods? |
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Don't go to law school This is good advice. If you won't take it, then be sure that you don't pay for law school and don't borrow for it. A law degree will not pay back the costs. If you company wants you to have a law degree, then I think the advice about not paying for it yourself and not borrowing is good advice. Don't believe what law schools tell you about employment rates either. If you graduate and get a job delivering pizza you are considered employed by law school standards. Also, just because your employer might want you to get a law license, doesn't mean they are going to hire you as a lawyer or pay you more money. That said, unless you can go to a Tier I school, I'd be nervous about finding a legal job in this market (again, assuming your current employer doesn't hire you). I have a lot of friends that went to a Tier III/IV school and are struggling to find legal jobs and pay back the $100,000+ studend loans they now have. |
| Imma just leave this little thing here: Big ass chart of real employment statistics for law students |
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Imma just leave this little thing here: Big ass chart of real employment statistics for law students Go UVA! |
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My college had a LSAT class in-house taught by a guy who turned out to be awesome. He was very high energy and a little kooky, but EVERY thing he told us was spot-on. The best piece of general advice he gave us was to get the REAL old LSATs and use those to practice, not the ones from test prep companies. You can order them from LSAC or whatever it's called now. Practice your skills and then do them under full time pressure.
The instructor I had said, "You'll eventually peak at some score within 3-4 full time pressure practice runs, and you will get the same score on the real one +/- 1 point." He was exactly right about all of that. |
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find a local prep course........they advertise at most colleges......spend the 150 or something to take that course, then study on your own..........the 150 course gets your mind wrapped around what the test is really about (and its not success in law school), the practice tests.....as many as you can handle, will help on the test.
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Really, woohoo suffolk! Nepotism is ones best avenue to employment.Quoted:
Imma just leave this little thing here: Big ass chart of real employment statistics for law students Damn 
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Really, woohoo suffolk! Nepotism is ones best avenue to employment.Quoted:
Imma just leave this little thing here: Big ass chart of real employment statistics for law students Damn
yeah, be very proud of that |
| As others have said or hinted at, the single most important study method you can use is to take timed previously administered LSAT's. I can't emphasize the importance of taking them timed. Unlike your 1L exams, there is enough time to answer all of the questions in each section of the LSAT, but it takes significant practice to get enough right to propel you into a decent school. |
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Don't go to law school This is good advice. If you won't take it, then be sure that you don't pay for law school and don't borrow for it. A law degree will not pay back the costs. This times two - At least have someone else underwrite the cost. Borrowing to go to law school is huge waste. |
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I'm about to enter into my 3L year. If I were given the choice to go back and do it all again or make some changes, I'd probably flip a coin. I'm really happy that I'm getting a great education, but law school fucking blows.
I'm not going to tell you to not go to law school, but I advise you to think looooong and hard about it. As for the LSAT... Take a prep course. I took Princeton Review, which cost somewhere around $2500. It helped raise my score enough so that I received scholarships from every school I was accepted to. Everyone of the scholarships justified the cost of the course each year of law school, most by a good amount. This is not intended to be braggadocio... rather to put the cost of a review course into perspective. Also, I'd recommend Princeton over Kaplan. When you are in the course, order all of the past released LSAT tests from the LSAC. Take most of them, and time yourself honestly. I had a lot of friends who wanted to go do law school who would spend 37 minutes on each 35 minute section. We were all neck and neck with regard to our practice scores. I timed myself honestly and quit at 35 minutes. None of them are in law school. Anyone can get a 180 on the LSAT if they have unlimited time. If you got a 168 and took 40 minutes, but would have gotten a 158 if you quit at 35 minutes, no one gives a shit. Good luck to you. |
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Imma just leave this little thing here: Big ass chart of real employment statistics for law students Go UVA! Second that!!!! |
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I'm about to enter into my 3L year. If I were given the choice to go back and do it all again or make some changes, I'd probably flip a coin. I'm really happy that I'm getting a great education, but law school fucking blows. Are you kidding? You think law school blows? Did you leave a compound full of naked models with a kegerator in every room to go to law school? Law school itself is a 3 year vacation compared to actually working, or dealing with being unemployed, afterwards. You almost make your own schedule, have all sorts of free time. Beer and softball. You most likely have access to a large population of undergrad chicks who are too stupid to realize that the market for new lawyers is crap, and they'll do wonderful things to you because, hey, you're older and going to be a lawyer. Don't let all the crazies around you ruin it and stress you out. In fact, spend as little time in the law school building as possible. Those people who spend countless hours in their carrel reading all sorts of shit that wasn't assigned? Ignore them - they have no advantage. Learn how to write well under time pressure, and you'll mop the floor with them. Not that it matters, since you won't be getting a job anyway. 
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I'm about to enter into my 3L year. If I were given the choice to go back and do it all again or make some changes, I'd probably flip a coin. I'm really happy that I'm getting a great education, but law school fucking blows. Are you kidding? You think law school blows? Did you leave a compound full of naked models with a kegerator in every room to go to law school? Law school itself is a 3 year vacation compared to actually working, or dealing with being unemployed, afterwards. You almost make your own schedule, have all sorts of free time. Beer and softball. You most likely have access to a large population of undergrad chicks who are too stupid to realize that the market for new lawyers is crap, and they'll do wonderful things to you because, hey, you're older and going to be a lawyer. Don't let all the crazies around you ruin it and stress you out. In fact, spend as little time in the law school building as possible. Those people who spend countless hours in their carrel reading all sorts of shit that wasn't assigned? Ignore them - they have no advantage. Learn how to write well under time pressure, and you'll mop the floor with them. Not that it matters, since you won't be getting a job anyway. 
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I'm about to enter into my 3L year. If I were given the choice to go back and do it all again or make some changes, I'd probably flip a coin. I'm really happy that I'm getting a great education, but law school fucking blows. Are you kidding? You think law school blows? Did you leave a compound full of naked models with a kegerator in every room to go to law school? Law school itself is a 3 year vacation compared to actually working, or dealing with being unemployed, afterwards. You almost make your own schedule, have all sorts of free time. Beer and softball. You most likely have access to a large population of undergrad chicks who are too stupid to realize that the market for new lawyers is crap, and they'll do wonderful things to you because, hey, you're older and going to be a lawyer. Don't let all the crazies around you ruin it and stress you out. In fact, spend as little time in the law school building as possible. Those people who spend countless hours in their carrel reading all sorts of shit that wasn't assigned? Ignore them - they have no advantage. Learn how to write well under time pressure, and you'll mop the floor with them. Not that it matters, since you won't be getting a job anyway. This. All of it. Spot on. |
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I'm about to enter into my 3L year. If I were given the choice to go back and do it all again or make some changes, I'd probably flip a coin. I'm really happy that I'm getting a great education, but law school fucking blows. Are you kidding? You think law school blows? Did you leave a compound full of naked models with a kegerator in every room to go to law school? Law school itself is a 3 year vacation compared to actually working, or dealing with being unemployed, afterwards. You almost make your own schedule, have all sorts of free time. Beer and softball. You most likely have access to a large population of undergrad chicks who are too stupid to realize that the market for new lawyers is crap, and they'll do wonderful things to you because, hey, you're older and going to be a lawyer. Don't let all the crazies around you ruin it and stress you out. In fact, spend as little time in the law school building as possible. Those people who spend countless hours in their carrel reading all sorts of shit that wasn't assigned? Ignore them - they have no advantage. Learn how to write well under time pressure, and you'll mop the floor with them. Not that it matters, since you won't be getting a job anyway. This. Law school is a cake walk compared to real life. Personally, I chose to go to school at night and work full time (50-60hrs/week) so we could live more comfortably and minimize our debt. My wife was a day student. I've seen both sides of it. Day students have a cake life. Night students well...not so much, but it's not law school itself that's hard, it's the balancing of your time and priorities. That said, I know plenty of kids that couldn't hack it and went to night school while not working, or only working part time. Kind of sad if you ask me. At various points and occasionally simultaneously I managed work, trial team, 20 hr/wk clinic, being a staffer on a journal, and a husband. It can be done. If you're struggling in law school, you need to start looking at how you can be more efficient and manage your time and stress. The biggest thing that helped me was to realize that sometimes good enough is all it takes. Not everything has to be perfect. This is especially true when it comes time for bar prep. |
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My wife took a prep course from Kaplan I think.
I'll echo what the others have said about employment. It sucks right now. My wife has been out for nine years and she's still struggling. There are graduates here in Utah working two or more years for free trying to gain experience. |