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Berkeley vs. The LSAT

Looks like researchers right here in B-town are hard at work in designing a new law school admissions test that would correlate with success not as a 1L, but as a lawyer. What a novel concept.

If this saves just one future student from having to spend a month learning "tricks" on the logic games, it will have been worth it. Still, I'm skeptical that any 3-hour test can effectively measure the qualities that make a good lawyer. It seems to me the #1 most essential ability is a strong work ethic (not to imply that I have one), which is going to be tough to tease out with multiple choice questions.

What do you guys think of the LSAT? How should a "better" test differ from the one we endured? What are Berkeley's chances of actually affecting any change in the system?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).