Posted on 10/12/2022 6:55:54 AM PDT by karpov
The legal industry, and the law academy in particular, are in a high state of contention concerning one of their most protected traditions: the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT. The American Bar Association (ABA) that regulates our law-school industry is thinking of doing away with it. This exam is among the most heavily weighted student-applicant ranking methods for law schools and among the most feared and coveted competitive hurdles for law-school aspirants.
It is irrelevant.
Well, at least to those factions that want it removed as a requirement. They include a number of special interests, mostly in government, that seek to promote broad personal- and group-identity objectives. The LSAT (or any standardized test for that matter) is considered inherently biased, thereby making it a target of discrimination claims. This isn’t a bad issue to raise in general, as the test itself is rather old. More recent advances in learning theories, and even in neurobiology and brain science, can provide important new parameters of intelligence that may not be captured by standardized tests. Some biological science researchers, on the other hand, have come out fully in favor of standardized testing and explain why. This raises the obvious question as to whether the LSAT is actually outdated or if new applicants are merely going to be given a “pass” based on political criteria. (Alternately, for commercial reasons, the LSAT may, in the future, be merely a “check the box” formality, to accommodate current progressive viewpoints and to assuage law school deans.)
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You take the Bar exam AFTER law school, the LSAT is a tool to help gauge if you have the type of intelligence that is well-suited for law school.
Yup, the Bar is a Bear.
And the book should be, “How THE LEFT Has Captured the Law School, the Judiciary and the Constitution.”
In the USA, the LSAT is opposed by one group in particular, which lacks the moral character, discipline and intelligence needed to pass it. No other reason.
“The LSAT (or any standardized test for that matter) is considered inherently biased”
Yes.
The LSAT is intended to eliminate bad students who will make bad lawyers.
They’ll change the bar exam.
Yes, “advances in learning theories” are irrelevant. The measure of utility of the LSAT is whether it is predictive of success in law school, as measured by performance on the bar exam after graduation. That was its original purpose, just as the SAT was designed to predict performance in college. All the rest is just politics.
If the 'ABA' is an acronym for the 'American BAR Association', what does the 'BAR' an acronym for?
You don’t honestly think that they will keep the bar exam????!!
No imagination.
New York may soon ditch its controversial teacher certification exam
It’s official: New York’s prospective teachers will no longer have to pass controversial literacy exam
Yep, the bar exam is next.
This could actually be a good thing.
Remember Frito from “Idiocracy”?
He was a lawyer............................
They will give the questions out to certain individuals according to race, sex, and social attitude scores.
Just give everyone a participation ribbon.
“Welcome to Costco. I love you.”
“Welcome to Costco. I love you.”
“Welcome to Costco. I love you.”
And yet we look at government at all levels and wonder how the hell some of them ever passed it.
Ban All Republicans
‘Bar’ was the Brit practice of separating courts into parts for lower level folks versus areas for actual barristers (lawyers). Weird terminology from a different time and place.
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