How did your LSAT go Saturday?

If you’re thinking about canceling your February LSAT score, analyze your situation. You have 6 calendar days to submit a request to  LSAC to cancel your score.

Cancelling your LSAT score is a drastic measure, and unless you’ve experienced an obvious disaster…not something to hastily decide. Know that the stress of taking the test can color your feelings about the test…making you feel like you did poorly. Perhaps you did well! Barring a major catastrophe, you can expect that your score is fairly close to your last few practice tests.

Reasons NOT to cancel your LSAT Score:

• You’ll have to retest!
• You won’t have the sections of your test to analyze if you take the test again in June.
• There is no guarantee that your following LSAT score will be significantly better.
• Law schools want you to do well and most will take the best of your two or three scores, regardless of the order that the tests were taken in. (Check with the admissions staff of the schools to which you are applying to see how they handle multiple LSAT scores.)

Cancel your LSAT Score if:

• You know that you can do much better!
• If you were sick it is much more likely that you didn’t score your best.
• Your focus was horrible on large sections of the test and you had this problem in more than one section.
• If you’ve taken the LSAT two or three times already, you will have a better “feel” for your test-day performance.  With these scores already recorded, another cancellation might not hurt you much. But you should also remember that you can’t take the LSAT more than three times in a 2-year time frame…and this includes any times when you decided to cancel your score.
• If you had significant time losses over several sections of the test, maybe you should consider cancelling the score. Did the proctor short a section? Was your timing device working improperly for the entire test?
• Gridding Mistakes: Of course, if you mis-marked entire sections, then you put many questions in danger…canceling the score could be a good choice.

If you do decide that you should cancel the February LSAT score, do so quickly. LSAC must receive the written request within 6 calendar days of the test. Then, take a little time away from your prep and get right into a prep schedule for the June 9 exam. You will need to practice and prep correctly if you are going to make a good improvement to your LSAT score.

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