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Law is a wonderful career with lots of professional avenues. Thousands of young students all over the world aspire to make a career in Law. Almost every one of them keeps an ambition to complete his graduation from one of the prestigious Law Universities in the world. The US and Canada have some of the finest Law schools. A large number of undergraduates seek admission to these schools. These students come from all parts of the world with different socioeconomic backgrounds, undergraduate curriculum and grades. Also the number of seats available in these schools is limited. This is why it becomes necessary to judge the capabilities of these aspirants and form a merit with the help of entrance examinations. The Law School Admission Council (or LSAC) in the US has introduced one such test called Law School Admission Test (or LSAT).

LSAT is a standard entrance examination for admissions to most of the Law schools in the US and Canada. For ABA (American Bar Association) approved law schools taking this test is a must. In the profession of law one gets quite challenging assignments. To perform ones task correctly one has to have the ability to understand things right in the first place. One should be able to think objectively without any bias over the facts available and have the ability to organize these facts in a correct structure and make logical inferences out of it. The law schools teach you what law is and how to apply the laws in any situation using these abilities. So these become the prerequisite for any candidate aspiring to make a career in law. LSAT is aimed at checking the reading and verbal reasoning skills of a candidate and his command over written English. Its score can be a measure of how well you will do at a law school.

LSAT is conducted four times in a year. It is approximately a four-hour long exam. Wrong answers do not fetch negative marks. This encourages the applicants to attempt all the questions. The idea behind this is to measure how well you can come to the right answer when you do not know the one directly. One can apply various techniques for this. The most favorite one is of course an elimination process. An elimination technique is the one where you intelligently conclude that a particular answer is not the correct one and ignore it.

Outline of LSAT Test Paper

LSAT comprises of five sections of multiple choice questions and one section for writing an essay. Out of these five sections, four sections are scored and the 5th one is not scored. LSAT has two sections based on logical reasoning, one based on analytical reasoning and one based on reading comprehension. The fifth section of LSAT exam is experimental and can be based on any one of the three mentioned above. Each of these sections is made up of 24 to 26 questions approximately. The experimental section is not graded and is used for internal assessment and towards the improvement of the exam pattern.

Logical Reasoning

In the logical reasoning section, the candidate is tested for his ability to evaluate an argument and analyze it correctly. The candidate is given an abstract situation or text and is expected to bring out logical inferences from it. One has to select the logically correct answer associated with the question posed.

Analytical Reasoning

The second section of LSAT is the analytical reasoning section designed to test the applicant's ability to analyze situations and draw conclusions. Questions are mostly based on logic games. It checks your ability to apply the set of guidelines or rules to a given situation and bring out a conclusion.

Reading Comprehension

The third section of this exam is reading comprehension. Here the candidate is given an abstract text and is asked to find out relevant information from it. This is to check how well you can comprehend a given situation. The candidate needs to answer the questions based on the concept behind the situation.

Essay Writing

The essay writing section is aimed at checking ones thought process and written English. Here you are given a situation with two outcomes to it. These two outcomes are generally antagonistic. You need to choose one of them and justify your stand through your essay. This way your ability to use the given facts to take a stand and to support it is tested.

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