Comparison of SAT to LSAT

qwert271
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:26:57 +0000

I know this thread is old, but …

I just took the SAT, got a very high score. I believe that if I hadn’t prepped at all, my score would have been around 100-150 points lower. The only prepping that I did, however, was working systematically through all of the practice problems they release. Thus, I was thoroughly comfortable with all of the types of questions, and was confident/knowledgeable about my skills. Since there are only a few dozen types of questions they can ask on the math section, for instance, I was able to learn how to do them all, and quickly. If you do the same type of prepping for the LSAT, I would expect that you’d get close to the same results. I think that there is an initial ‘benchmark’ of your ability from which you can improve a certain amount of points. No amount of practice is going to improve a 140 to a 175, but you could bring a 165 to a 175 easily just with practice and confidence.