LSAC will implement the upheld recommendations starting immediately for testing accommodation requests related to the December 2015 LSAT administration and later administrations.įor more information about the Court's decision in DFEH v. The bill prohibits the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) from the practice of flagging LSAT test scores of students who receive accommodations during. This will account for any delay in sending or processing your recommendation letter to LSAC, and of course any delay on the part of your recommender. It is designed to measure the skills critical to success in law school, including critical thinking, reading comprehension, information organization, and argument evaluation. Begin drafting your personal and diversity statement. The LSAT is a standardized test used by law schools to assess the qualifications of prospective students. The District Court invalidated a limited portion of the recommendations (generally regarding timing for evaluating testing accommodation requests and how recent documentation in support of a request for testing accommodations based on mental or cognitive impairment must be) but upheld the bulk of the recommendations as written, including those that: categorize the type of documentation that will be sufficient for various types of testing accommodations requests, establish criteria for evaluating requests, require an automatic review by outside professionals before any request may be denied, and create an appeals process for those candidates whose testing accommodation requests are ultimately denied. Apply for LSAT Accommodations (if applicable) June - August.
The court's decision upheld almost all the changes to LSAC's testing accommodation procedures recommended in a report by a panel of experts created pursuant to a 2014 consent decree that resolved allegations under the Americans with Disabilities Act in Dept. District Court for the Northern District of California upheld significant changes to LSAC's testing accommodation policies and practices. What kind of academic accommodations are available on the LSAT 50 extended time on all sections The use of an electronic screen reader or a human reader. I know they get a lot of grief on this board, and in some cases rightly so, but this isnt one of them. These procedures shall apply to requests from blind and severely visually impaired test takers for readers on the LSAT as an accommodation for their.
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