<p>It seems to me that while you can understand the best way to attack problems, and you can practice/familiarize yourself with question types, I’m not sure if you can really “study” for it like you can for the MCAT or something. Is there, in your guys’ mind, a limit to how much you can score depending on your own natural ability, or do you still maintain that if you do enough practice problems/put in enough hours, you will do well eventually if you are reasonably smart?</p>
<p>It’s clear that everybody has an internal cap; there’s a time constraint factor that is meant to screen out progressively smaller and smaller portions of the population as scores get higher and higher. With that said, most folks find that studying hard is important to getting up towards their cap.</p>
<p>When, in your mind, do you think you know when you’ve hit your internal cap and probably won’t score any higher? Not to be a nerd or anything, but in economics, there is the law of diminishing returns where up to a certain point, you won’t gain any additional utility from consumption, and I think that applies here as well. When does one determine that extra consumption (time spent studying) will no longer yield any more utility (increase in LSAT scores)?</p>
<p>Also, what happens to people that want to do corporate law that don’t get a good enough score on the LSAT for the T14? Are they basically screwed, since it will be next to impossible for them to get a BigLaw job from the non-top 14?</p>
<p>A few ways. The first is that if your LSAT is already a little higher than predicted based on your SAT score, or when you’ve already gone up 10-15 points from your diagnostics.</p>
<p>The better way to measure, of course, is after you study for a few weeks (3-6), take a practice test. Note your score, study hard for three or four days, and take another practice test. If you don’t improve, you’ve probably hit your cap.</p>
<p>The answer to your second question is probably something outside of my expertise.</p>