The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the Law School Admissions Test, is dropping the logic games section of the test beginning with the August 2024 exam. It will replace it with a second logical reasoning section.
This comes as the result of a lawsuit settlement in 2019 in which a legally blind man sued the LSAC because he was at a disability during the logic games section because he could not diagram out the questions.
“The goal of this change is to add a degree of fairness and inclusion to the law school application process,” said Glen Stohr, lead instructional designer for Kaplan’s pre-law programs. “Through their research, LSAC determined that they could accomplish this while still testing essential law schools’ skills by substituting a second Logical Reasoning section for the current Logic Games section.”
Many students have found the logic games to be the hardest section of the LSAT. But it is also the section that with practice test takers can see the most improvement. To maintain scoring consistency, the LSAC said the change will not impact on overall scoring.
The LSAC has made other changes recently.
In the August administration of the LSAT, LSAC gave test takers the ability to choose the setting for the first time.
Those signed up to take the LSAT were able to take it as a remotely proctored test at home or at a testing center. Prior to the pandemic, the LSAT was solely administered as an in-person test and during the pandemic the test transitioned to being proctored remotely only.
According to the LSAC, 61% of the almost 20,000 people who signed up to take the August 2023 LSAT opted to take it at home rather than in-person. This surprised some professionals in the legal prep industry due to the inconsistent reliability of ProctorU, the proctor software that the LAST uses for at-home tests.
