<p>Can an undergrad pre-freshmen who scored a 163 on an actual, previously administered LSAT, expect to increase the score over 4 years of time? Basically, I have heard opinions in regard to this matter, that the LSAT is like Weschler's IQ test; meaning, your score is your score, and no amount of time, (4 years), practice, or education can change your score. Is this true? If I can expect an increase with the above said conditions playing a factor, how much will the score increase? of course this is just opinion and speculation on your part, but I am just interested.</p>
<p>Practice alone will boost your score considerably. 3 weeks bought me nine points. Plus, college will help, too, at least with reading skills. No need to worry.</p>
<p>Definitely, definitely, definitely.</p>
<p>The LSAT is a very learnable test. Part of it involves internalizing the principles of logic, and part of it also has to do with learning to think like the LSAC. Through the rigorous analytic thought to which a university education should expose you, you should gain enough experience to do well with some initial practice.</p>
<p>Definently not true. If you look at the Testmasters testimonials, you'll see ppl who started with a 146 go up to 170+. I think its all about repitition and getting the strategies down cold.</p>
<p>Your score is not your set-in-stone, never-gonna-change score, but at the same time, 9 points in 3 weeks is <em>probably</em> credited as much to luck and specific questions as it is to preparation, and 146-170+ is not a normal jump. My score, with a lot of studying, increased 2pts from my original score (having never ever seen the test) and <em>decreased</em> 2pts from my next sitting (having never seen the test except the first time I took it). It was 3pts higher than my lowest practice test and 5pts lower than my highest. There's a fair bit of variance possible, even with studying. The good news is that you have a base now and you know you have an interest in increasing, so you can study for a long period of time, take helpful classes (logic, perhaps an ethical theory or other reading and critical thinking intensive class), and so forth.</p>
<p>S615:
It's a fair criticism. To add to your point -- not arguing with it, agreeing with it -- LSAC says a standard deviation is about 3 points either way, in which case your "best representation" LSAT score (1) might be anywhere in a twelve point range. My nine point increase was well within that variation (2).</p>
<p>So, BD, you might have had a really bad day, scored a 163, and a good day on the test will give you a 175 even though you haven't actually gotten any better. Or you might have had a really good day, and a bad day on the test will give you a 151 even though you haven't actually gotten any worse.</p>
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<p>(1) Using a 95% Confidence Interval, the standard statistical expression for variance.
(2) My recent practice tests were actually pretty consistent. So the actual thing was not that I was having a "good" day, but that still leaves 6 points to plain old variance. In this view, my definitively creditable improvement is 3 points, which is certainly not a dramatic change. This continues to affirm S615's criticism of my post.</p>
<p>what books are the best prep guides for LSAT?</p>
<p>thanks for jacking my thread. haha. anyways, from what i've heard, taking the actual LSAC LSAT previously administered tests is the best way to prepare along with a suplemental book such as the Logic Games Bible or something like that. I actually have the same question.</p>
<p>I liked the REA 100 Logic Games book. You need to be a little careful with it because there are wrong answers in the back on some of the problems, but the problems are reasonably tough, which makes for good practice.</p>
<p>Powerscore logic games bible
Powerscore Logic Reasoning bilble
Mastering the LSAT- Nova
The official LSAT Prep test and super preps from the LSAC/ amazon/ bn</p>
<p>Keep in mind that there will be a change to the LSAT in june so look out faor revisions or new prep books to come out.</p>