Few tests you will take in life have as narrow a range of scoring as the LSAT. Sure, anything you worked on in elementary school was probably graded on that bizarre 1 to 6 scale, but more or less, you’ve always worked on a plane of 1 to 100 (or more than that for whatever standardized tests you’ve taken).

So the LSAT is a bit of a change of pace for many people, or so we’ve discovered at Blueprint LSAT Prep.

The exam is essentially curved, meaning how well you do on the LSAT is dependent on how well others do. This indicates that if the majority of test takers are prepping a lot for the test, then you should be, too. At Blueprint LSAT, we find students don't always realize the difficulty of the test and only allot a month or so to study. While this might be enough for some, it probably won't get you a great score unless you have a lot of natural aptitude for the test.

The test is graded on a curve, meaning that how well you do on the LSAT is dependent on how well everyone else does. What this should indicate to you is that if the majority of test takers are taking a prep course for the test, then you would probably want to take one as well. With no show of bias, we recommend Blueprint LSAT Preparation. If you take a prep course, we at Blueprint LSAT Preparation recommend previewing the course if possible by meeting your instructor if it’s a live class or watching a sample video if it’s online.

The actual physical scoring of the LSAT is another matter altogether. We at Blueprint LSAT Prep still can’t really figure out why it takes over three weeks for LSAC to score the LSAT. Do they send all of the exams on a slow boat to China to be hand scored by specially trained children? Do they have a special 1970’s computer that takes hours to compute a single exam? Do they just like to mess with everyone (including us at Blueprint LSAT Prep)? The world may never know, but it does take up to a month (!) to actually get your score on the exam. That’s a long, long time. You yourself could hand score every single test if you had a month.

But whatever. We at Blueprint LSAT Prep finally decided that it doesn’t matter how the thing is physically scored. It’s still a matter of vexation to some Blueprint LSAT Prep students, but as long as you know it’s going to take about a month, you can plan accordingly.

Whatever the process, (at Blueprint LSAT Prep, our money is on the 1970’s computer), your exam scores are typically released close to the date LSAC claims, and generally with few real scoring errors. You can ask for your test to be re-scored by hand, but for the most part, bubbling errors tend to be those made by the test taker.

Article by Jodi Triplett and Trent Teti of Blueprint LSAT Preparation. Blueprint LSAT Preparation offers 100 hours of instruction in its live course, and 42 hours in the Blueprint LSAT Prep online course. We also offer Blueprint LSAT Prep pencils and bottle openers (don’t say we never gave you nothing).