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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 27, 2010, 11:10:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on March 27, 2010, 09:44:23 pm ---
 It is no Surprise that competent thinking is beyond you as well.


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Xiaou, you should take a sample LSAT exam (law school admission test).  Unlike most exams of this sort you don't need any specialized knowledge.  It tests logical reasoning (2 sections), analytical reasoning and reading comprehension.  It's actually sort of a fun test -- like taking those online IQ tests, only much more rigorous and well designed.  You can get a free sample exam here:  http://www.lsac.org/pdfs/test.pdf.  Remember, no cheating.  Exactly 35 minutes per section.  Since the LSAT requires no specialized knowledge, time is the only thing keeping you from a perfect score.  Almost anybody could get a perfect score given enough time since the answers are contained within each question.

Who knows . . . maybe you'll realize that you're perfectly suited to law school.  Let me know how well you do.  I'm curious to know how much more competent a thinker you are than me.

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link no work. Yo got my curiosity. I wanna give it a go!

ammitz:
 http://www.lsac.org/pdfs/test.pdf

without the last dot

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 30, 2010, 09:35:56 am ---Oh great, why don't we just drag out our SAT scores, too?   ::)

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Ok.  You first.   8)

shmokes:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 30, 2010, 09:35:56 am ---Oh great, why don't we just drag out our SAT scores, too?   ::)

I went through most of the graduate school entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, LSAT) and got the same percentile on all of them +/- 5 points.  The slants were all a little different but they all more or less peg you the same.


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The other exams test specific knowledge, such as how well you know algebra.  The LSAT isn't concerned with knowledge.  It just tests your thinking skills.  Like I said, the answer to EVERY question is provided within the question itself.  Outside knowledge won't help you at all.  A person 30 years out of college can take the LSAT and there won't be a single time when he looks at something and says, "Hmm . . . I'm sure I used to know this."  The closest thing you get on the LSAT is the essay (because it requires a knowledge of grammar, etc.) but the essay isn't even graded.  It doesn't affect your score.

shmokes:
They unquestionably cannot be trusted.   ;D  You'll never find a group of people with a larger concentration of type A, ultracompetitive people who will do anything to win.  There are lots of lovely people here in law school.  I have lots of really good friends.  But I've never in my life known a group of people with such a large proportion of whom I dislike.  And I mean dislike in a fundamental way . . . as in, "You are a crappy human being," dislike. 

It's kind of weird.  In terms of ethical behavior, there is not a more regulated profession in existence.  We take ethics VERY seriously.  But because of the type of people disproportionately attracted to the law, there is not another profession that so badly needs it.

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