“Hopefully the partnership will be designed to provide substantive assistance to all prospective applicants, irrespective of their socioeconomic backgrounds.” “The Khan partnership seems to be a tacit-and long-overdue-acknowledgement that these tests can not only be gamed, but have been gamed,” says Taylor, a Saint Louis University School of Law professor. It’s interesting, Taylor adds, that for many years, the LSAC’s position was that its test could not be “gamed” by commercial test prep courses. He serves as director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, which released the law school merit scholarship survey. “It’s been long known that well-to-do students are better able to maximize their performance on the through preparation aids that are cost-prohibitive to many other students,” says Aaron Taylor. LSAT scores frequently determine who gets the scholarships, according to the study. A study released this month found that although law schools have become more generous with merit scholarships, most of the funds go to affluent students. Indeed, economic situations’ influence on law school opportunities, with race frequently figuring into the discussion, is a long-standing concern among many lawyers. “We want to make law school accessible to all who are interested in pursuing it, and we don’t want cost to be an issue,” Knezevich said. When asked if the LSAC was influenced by recent discussions about using other entrance tests, like the GRE, for law school admission, Knezevich said no, adding that conversations between her group and Khan Academy started more than two years ago. The LSAC will provide financial support for the platform designed by Khan Academy, which according to its website is funded through individual donations as well as significant funding from Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
It’s going to be very useful for anyone who is preparing for the test.” “It’s very user-friendly, and Khan Academy’s guiding mission is to make the materials accessible. “It seemed like a linear course with an adaptive platform, where test takers could pick and choose lessons that they wanted to work on,” Knezevich said. Test developers who used Khan Academy with their children brought the platform to the LSAC’s attention. “We wanted to level the playing field and make law school accessible to all who are interested in pursuing law.” “We’re always looking for ways to help get information out there to test takers so they can prepare on their own, and they don’t need to invest a lot of money to do this,” Lily Knezevich, the LSAC’s senior director of test development, told the ABA Journal.
Many LSAT prep courses now are offered by for-profit groups for a fee. Khan Academy, a nonprofit online platform known for its large library of interactive math courses, today announced it will offer free LSAT practice materials, working with the Law School Admissions Council.
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