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I consistently score very well on RC, logic games, however, are not my forte. I'm decent on LR. For those that are at least 1Ls, what section is most indicative of success in law school?

I've never seen anything like the games in law school. A few areas of law require you to understand complex rule structures (X, unless Y, notwithstanding Z, etc.), but not under time pressure. Usually there are flowcharts and things. The setup is already done before you walk into the exam.

None of them are relevant. At all.

Man from Nantucket wrote:None of them are relevant. At all.

nah, reading comp is relevant for 1L, when you actually read assignemnts

MyNameIsFlynn! wrote:

Man from Nantucket wrote:None of them are relevant. At all.

nah, reading comp is relevant for 1L, when you actually read assignemnts

Yes but anyone at your school is probably within a narrow band of score ranges and reading comp skills should be similar enough across the board.

scottidsntknow wrote:

MyNameIsFlynn! wrote:

Man from Nantucket wrote:None of them are relevant. At all.

nah, reading comp is relevant for 1L, when you actually read assignemnts

Yes but anyone at your school is probably within a narrow band of score ranges and reading comp skills should be similar enough across the board.

Knowing how law school exams are graded, doesn't the smallest difference, (say my RC strength-compared to someone else's strong LG ability-but both similar lsat scores) give me the slight advantage in making an A/A- vs. B/C+.

Admittedly, this is my attempt to predict where i will stand, ranking wise, in a class. Don't flame.
The whole unkown factor of law school grading is very stressful to me.

I literally miss 5 or 6 every lg section, but RC is between 0-2.

alaird21 wrote:Admittedly, this is my attempt to predict where i will stand, ranking wise, in a class. Don't flame.
The whole unkown factor of law school grading is very stressful to me.

You can't predict success based on your strongest section of the LSAT. Yes, reading and logical reasoning are both skills you need in law school, but being good at the LSAT isn't the same as being good at law school exams. And you have to get used to the unknown. Law school is full of it and it's stressful to everyone.

alaird21 wrote:I consistently score very well on RC, logic games, however, are not my forte. I'm decent on LR. For those that are at least 1Ls, what section is most indicative of success in law school?

probably none. do you understand transitive relationships? there's some of that and conditional statements? there's some of that. nothing about the LSAT has really been relevant so far in terms of helping with law school. i found that the RC sections actually had some interesting topics that were pretty accurate and informative, until you read about Thurgood Marshall for the 10th time.

Probably the writing section.

For 1L

LR > RC >>>>>>> LG

MyNameIsFlynn! wrote:

Man from Nantucket wrote:None of them are relevant. At all.

nah, reading comp is relevant for 1L, when you actually read assignemnts

Wait... you're supposed to read in 1L?

Seriously though - none are relevant at all.

star fox wrote:For 1L

LR > RC >>>>>>> LG

TITCR. LSAC published a study you can find here: http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/resea ... r/tr-98-01[/url]

LR has the highest correlation with 1L grades, followed by RC and then LG. But LG has a low correlation with the other sections, so LSAC argues it adds more predictive validity to a test with LR than RC would.

The rule against perpetuities is just an elaborate LG. LG totally irrelevant otherwise.

shifty_eyed wrote:Probably the writing section.

Actually maybe this. If they scored the writing section it would probably have the highest correlation.