LSAC just formally announced that they are eliminating the Analytical Reasoning section from the LSAT for test takers starting in August 2024. Instead they will be adding a second Logical Reasoning section of the test.

“We’re pleased that there is now certainty regarding the future of the LSAT’s logic games section, long the section of the exam that students found most challenging. What the LSAC decided to implement was its biggest change to the exam’s content since 1991. Starting with the August 2024 administration of the LSAT, there will be no more Logic Games section. Instead the test maker is adding a second Logical Reasoning section.”

Ontario Law Schools:

University of Toronto Law School: the last LSAT for admission is the January LSAT for that year of admission

https://www.law.utoronto.ca/jd-admissions-timeline

Osgoode Law School (York University): the last LSAT for admission is the January LSAT for that year of admission

https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/programs/juris-doctor/jd-admissions/first-year-applicants/eligibility-requirements/

University of Queen’s Law School: the last LSAT for admission is the February LSAT for that year of admission

https://law.queensu.ca/frequently-asked-questions

University of Western Law School: the last LSAT for admission is the February LSAT for that year of admission

https://law.uwo.ca/future_students/jd_admissions/admissions_FAQ/law_school_admission_test.html

University of Windsor Law School:

For the single JD programs: The latest LSAT score accepted is the January test score of the year of application.

For the Dual JD program: The latest LSAT score accepted is the April test score of the year of application. 

https://www.uwindsor.ca/law/1163/windsor-law-admissions-faq

Lakehead University – Bora Laskin Law School: the last LSAT for admission is the January LSAT for that year of admission

https://www.lakeheadu.ca/programs/departments/law/admissions

University of Ottawa Law School: the last LSAT for admission is the January LSAT for that year of admission

https://commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/admissions/how-to-apply

Ryerson Lincoln Alexander School of Law: the last LSAT for admission is the January LSAT for that year of admission

https://www.ryerson.ca/law/admissions/application-requirements/

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LSAC has released some tentative upcoming test dates for 2021 – 2022:

April 10 & April 11 2021

June 2021 (week of June 12)

August 2021 (week of August 14)

October 2021 (week of October 9)

November 2021 (week of November 13)

January 2022 (week of January 15)

February 2022 (week of February 12)

March 2022 (week of March 12)

April 2022 (week of April 30)

June 2022 (week of June 11)

LSAC has also announced that they will be keeping the 3 section format for the LSAT until at least June 2022. However, starting August 2021, they will be adding in a 4th experimental section that is ungraded so they can begin testing LSAT questions for future tests again. So they will begin offering a break between section 2 and 3 of the test. (Keep in mind – like before – you won’t know which section is the experimental one while writing the test).

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This question seems to give quite a lot of students trouble. So I am posting a quick solution of how to attack this question from LSAT prep test 83, in section 1 of the Logical Reasoning section of the test.

Question 23:

Line Reference: The traditional view of the Roman Emperor Caligula

Strengthen: Strengthening an argument means to cement the connection between evidence and conclusion. In other words, it means to make the conclusion more likely to follow from the evidence.

Conclusion: Some modern historians do not think that Roman Emperor Caligula was a cruel and insane tyrant

Evidence: There is not a lot of documentation of the alleged cruelty and the histories that we do have were written by his enemies

Analysis: Lack of evidence (documents) does not prove something did not occur. Perhaps the documents of his cruelty were destroyed by the Emperor? However, we are looking to strengthen this argument and help prove this Emperor was not necessarily cruel. So, the right answer could eliminate ideas that would hurt the argument (disprove point I made above). But, they just have to be any piece of evidence that would make it less likely this Emperor was cruel. Often strengtheners can be hard to predict

A) Having less documentation from his era than others does not help our argument. If anything, it would weaken it – it could be pointing out that he destroyed documents! This is likely a weakener

B) We do not know how the people who lived under this Emperor viewed him for sure. So this point would not help or hurt the argument – it is just irrelevant

C) CORRECT – if the cruel acts assigned to this Emperor are almost identical to the acts assigned to other rulers that are labelled a tyrant then it makes it less likely the Emperor actually did these things. It increases the chance that the alleged acts are actually made up, if documents all say the same thing about everyone. This is increasing the chance that all these documents are suspect if they say the same stories about everyone. Feels more like a story than fact. Keep in mind, this is a weak strengthener – it definitely does not prove he definitively was not a tyrant, but that is okay. A strengthener only has to increase the chance the conclusion is true by 1%

D) If the documents believe this Emperor was crueller than most that would weaken the likelihood that he was not a tyrant

E) It does not matter if there are worse tyrants out there today. Just because someone is more cruel than you does not make you nice.

Many people are wondering how they convert their 3 section LSAT test into a percentile. So, instead of the test being out of 100 or 101 it is now out of 75 or 76. So the equivalent percentiles are listed below (this is from the May 2020 LSAT Flex) – so it would likely vary a bit based on your particular LSAT but this will give you a good idea of what percentile you are scoring in on your practice tests:

Reported Score	Lowest Raw Score	Highest Raw Score
180	75	76
179	74	74
178	**	**
177	73	73
176	**	**
175	72	72
174	71	71
173	70	70
172	69	69
171	68	68
170	67	67
169	66	66
168	65	65
167	64	64
166	63	63
165	61	61
164	60	60
163	58	59
162	57	57
161	55	56
160	54	54
159	52	53
158	51	51
157	49	50
156	48	48
155	46	47
154	45	45
153	43	44
152	42	42
151	41	41
150	39	40
149	38	38
148	37	37
147	36	36
146	34	35
145	33	33
144	32	32
143	31	31
142	30	30
141	29	29
140	28	28
139	27	27
138	26	26
137	**	**
136	25	25
135	24	24
134	23	23
133	**	**
132	22	22
131	21	21
130	**	**
129	20	20
128	**	**
127	19	19
126	**	**
125	18	18
124	**	**
123	17	17
122	**	**
121	16	16
120	0	15

The LSAT may be undergoing drastic changes in the next four years.

The potential changes are the result of a lawsuit filed by Angelo Binno and Shelesha Taylor in Michigan federal court against the LSAC, claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Michigan Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act. Binno and Taylor are both legally blind, and Binno requested that the Analytical Reasoning section be waived for his LSAT administration, which the LSAC denied. Most students solve LSAT logic games by drawing diagrams, something Binno argued he was unable to do, putting him at a disadvantage. While LSAC did approve several accommodations for Binno, it stopped short at waiving the Analytical Reasoning section altogether.

The parties reached an agreement in October 2019, with LSAC announcing that it was going to research and develop alternative ways to assess analytical reasoning skills over the next four years, resulting in a new Analytical Reasoning section.

LSAC has said “Should there be any significant changes to format, extensive research and development, followed by several stages of pilot testing and data analysis would be required to ensure the continued validity, reliability, and fairness of the test. Therefore, it is too early in the process to speculate on how the test will evolve as a result of our ongoing research.”

LSAC has said that it is unlikely there will be any major changes to the logic games before 2023. So it will not be affecting anyone writing the LSAT in the near future.

Also it likely won’t just be simply “eliminated” – LSAC will just come up with a way to test Analytical Reasoning that is fair for everyone.

LSAC is offering an online sitting of the LSAT for May test takers from the comfort of their own homes. You will be virtually proctored and it will be recorded so that it can be reviewed later to ensure the test is secure.

Who can take this test?

“For the first administration of the LSAT-Flex, which will occur during the week of May 18, 2020, anyone who was registered for the April 2020 LSAT as of April 7 — including March registrants who were moved to the April test when March was canceled — was automatically registered for the May LSAT-Flex, unless they chose to receive a coupon to use for a different LSAT date.”

Will there be more LSAT Flex tests?

“Depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, it is possible we may administer one or more additional LSAT-Flex exams, but it is too soon to tell.”

Read more about it on https://www.lsac.org/update-coronavirus-and-lsat/lsat-flex