Thursday, February 06, 2025
Some of my students are getting their LSAT results back this week. I hate the LSAT, which seems to mostly measure how white and advantaged a 20 year old person is. My Buffalo State students seem to fall at one extreme or the other on the LSAT bell curve, and this seem to be pretty much all based on race, although there is a little bit of pure socio-economic statis mixed in as well.
The thing is that although it is possible to prep for the exam- in fact, for most students a prep class seems essential- the prep classes seem to be exclusively test prep. I see this all the time with my students' vocabulary. They use the vocab they've learned in test prep classes, but their usage is ever so slightly off. They've learned the words, but they haven't learned the words in any context. The difference, as Mark Twain tells us, is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug, and I just don't know what can be done about it.
// posted by Bill @ 3:27 PM 
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