The LSAT has changed forever
Every student at Osgoode is well aware of the LSAT (Law School Admission Test). You know, the test that we all were anxious taking? If you can recall, the LSAT was comprised of five sections: two logical reasoning sections, one reading comprehension section, one logic games section, and one writing sample section. The grade assigned would be based on three sections: reading comprehension, logic games, and one of the logical reasoning sections.
However, that model is now changed forever. A lawsuit brought by Angelo Binno, a blind student in Michigan, has challenged the accessibility of the LSAT in respect to the logic games section.
Binno had dreams of getting into law school, but stated that once he realized the logic games section required drawing out diagrams to determine the answers to the questions, he thought: “automatic fail.”
The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the organization that administers the LSAT, announced on October 6 that there would be no more Logic Games.
What are your thoughts? Do you think that the LSAT will be better off without the logic games questions? In your experience, does having these questions help with picking out better candidates for law school, or aid you in law school at all?
As a legally blind student myself, and knowing there are other blind law students, I am wondering if in fact it could have been made more accessible in some way; possibly tactile diagramming? In my experience, it was not a section, but the nature of the test that is most inaccessible. A blind student will always be at a disadvantage at Reading Comprehension with a scribe, or doing a vast amount of multiple choice questions. If accessibility was the goal, then no LSAT is the way law schools should approach it. However, I cannot deny that traditionally many students do learn to answer the logic games portion by drawing diagrams. Thus it is fair that a fully blind person would have difficulty in doing.
However, it begs the question, if ⅓ of the LSAT can be chopped away, how much value as a test can it truly be expecting to hold at this point? It has always been my personal opinion that GPA is a more stable and confident measure of a student’s performance and perseverance, rather than their performance on the LSAT.
However, consider this food for thought. How do you feel about the LSAT changing? Does it hold the same value? Is it the right call to strip away Logic Games for everyone?