When I took my practice LSAT I got very low scores and went home in a major depression and worried I would never get into any law school, let alone a good one. I later learned that on the practice LSATs they cull the questions that were most often answered incorrectly on past, actual LSAT exams. So you are kind of like a rookie baseball player being asked to face Max Scherzer, Jacob DeGrom, Clayton Kershaw and Chris Sale all in consecutive at bats. If you take a prep course they go over the mistakes with you, and you analyze your mistakes and try to learn from them.
When the time came to take the actual LSAT, I scored significantly better than I did on the practice tests. Which if I knew that the practice tests were an all star team of questions people missed whereas the real test was just a regular team of players, I would have known and expected. But in those days it was not the cupcake generation like we have now where parents helicopter or pay the way to false achievements. In those days fear induced by poor test scores was designed to scare and motivate the student. It motivated me to study harder, not to seek a payment from Daddy and Mommy to the powers that be so that I could skate by. But in today’s climate trying to induce learning through fear is no longer being allowed by the Cupcake generation. The only way to get better is cheat someone in some way rather than say a kid is stupid or else not entitled to a certain educational program they are not qualified for.
When the time came to take the actual LSAT, I scored significantly better than I did on the practice tests. Which if I knew that the practice tests were an all star team of questions people missed whereas the real test was just a regular team of players, I would have known and expected. But in those days it was not the cupcake generation like we have now where parents helicopter or pay the way to false achievements. In those days fear induced by poor test scores was designed to scare and motivate the student. It motivated me to study harder, not to seek a payment from Daddy and Mommy to the powers that be so that I could skate by. But in today’s climate trying to induce learning through fear is no longer being allowed by the Cupcake generation. The only way to get better is cheat someone in some way rather than say a kid is stupid or else not entitled to a certain educational program they are not qualified for.
