Auburn Students Take the LSAT
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n September 30, students from all over the nation had the opportunity to take the Law School Admission Test. There were various locations around the nation where the test was available to students. Auburn senior Julie Stuckey took the LSAT in Mobile at Spring Hill College. Stuckey is an English major. She plans on applying to various law schools and is very interested in the University of Alabama’s law school. She hopes to get scholarship money because funding is the main factor in her law school decision.
Stuckey has been preparing and studying for the LSAT since the beginning of the summer. Studying for the LSAT was an ongoing process for Stuckey throughout the entire summer as well as an into the fall. She would usually spend about three to four hours a day studying on top of our student schedule.
“I took a Kaplan preparation class this summer on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It was a lot of hard work but definitely brought my score up a few points,” said Stuckey.
The LSAT is an administered test by the Law School Admission Council in the United States and Canada. It measures acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills. The test is given four times a year in February, June, October, and December. The test is based on a 120 to 180 point scale with 180 being the highest score. In 2005, 137,000 people took the test.
Stuckey thinks she did pretty well on the test; she thought some portions of the test were pretty hard but parts of the test were very easy. However, Stuckey explained that the difference in missing one or two questions can have a huge impact on your final score. The test has six sections each timed for 35 minutes. The sections include logical reasoning, logic games, reading comprehension, and a writing section. One of these sections is unscored. Stuckey thought the test seemed longer than she had anticipated.
At the end of October, Stuckey and the rest of the examiners will find out how they did on the LSAT. Stuckey has already started applying to various law schools such as University of Alabama, University of Ole Miss, University of Georgia, and Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham. Each college has a fee so it can be expensive to apply to many schools. Stuckey does not plan on taking the LSAT again even though there is another administered test in December. She is hoping her scores will come back high because people usually do not improve on the LSAT the second time around.
The following is a 2:51 interview with Julie Stuckey.
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