No more paper chase.
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.
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.
This could actually be a good thing.
Remember Frito from “Idiocracy”?
He was a lawyer............................
Precisely
Exactly. The LSAT , prepping for it as well as taking it, showed me that I was on the right track. I could think like a lawyer, and I might actually enjoy that career. It was encouraging.