tomwatts wrote:As far as topic hijacking for spam goes, that was one of the funnier ones. I give it 8/10.
Unfortunately I doubt that the spam attempt was designed to be an attempt at humor from a US based aspirating lawyer killing time on the board trying to derail/hijack the thread.
LSAT Blog wrote:Yeah, OP, why aren't you taking a prep class in India instead?
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Expect lots more weird spam and weird posts about prepping for and taking the LSAT in India and about going to LS in India.
As if outsourcing hasn't already gone way tooo far, I'm sorry to say, even LSAT and LS education is being outsourced to India in a big way.
I just learned about this the other night, at first thought it was an internet prank, but after more research realized it was very real and then scratched my head in bewilderment and cried for a while.
To save research time for anybody interested I'll just give a tiny brief and a few pertinent links I found that people can use as a jumping off from point to read all about it.
LSAC is now administering a modified format of the LSAT in India designed for admission to a bunch of new law schools/law education programs offered by Universities (or whatever they call them over there) in India.
LSAT-India
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Check out page 4 (LSAT Around the Globe)
http://www.lsac.org/LSACResources/Publi ... 09_LSR.pdf
Also (this link will probably cause a browser security alert probably cuz the tech support people in India didn't want to help the web designers in India responsible for the site!)
https://www.vue.com/about/release/09_03_03_lsat.asp
Compare this LSAT:
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to the USA June 2007 LSAT
http://www.lsac.org/jd/pdfs/SamplePTJune.pdf
and then scratch your head and wonder why oh why? especially about why some sections on the India version of the LSAT only have 4 answer choices people have to choose from instead of 5 even though the test and credited answer choices are the same? Why should they get one less distractor answer choice to filter out than students in the US?
Anyway, have fun reading through that stuff and comparing the two tests.
On the positive side of it, at least I now know that when I call a tech support line about anything that once connected to somebody in an India based call center I can stir up conversation about the LSAT and maybe even get a new remote tutoring student!
PS: Steve (LSAT Blog), if you hadn't heard of or found this stuff before, since I'm sure you'll write up and post stuff about it on your blog, can you please give me credit for finding the info and breaking the story in USA LSAT discussion board land first? TIA
