LSAT-India Examination format 2015

LSAT-India
Examination format 2015

LSAT-India is a standardised test that measures a candidate's reading and verbal reasoning skills designed by the USA-based Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for use by law schools in India. LSAT is to be held is 16 various cities of the nation.

LSAT-India 2015 exam paper will be bifurcated into four sessions namely:
Analytical Reasoning;
1st Logical Reasoning;
2nd Logical Reasoning;
Reading Comprehension

There will be a total of 92-100 questions. The candidates will be provided with a duration of two hours and 20 minutes to finish th exam.

Pattern details:

Analytical Reasoning: The questions contained in this section will measure the ability of a candidate to understand a structure of relationships and to draw logical conclusions about that structure. The candidate will be asked to reason deductively from a set of statements and rules or principles that describe relationships among persons, things, or events. Analytical Reasoning questions reflect the kinds of complex analyses that a law student performs in the course of legal problem solving.

Logical Reasoning: The questions contained in this section assess the ability to analyse, critically evaluate, and complete arguments as they occur in ordinary language. Each Logical Reasoning question requires the candidate to read and comprehend a short passage, then answer a question about it. The questions are designed to assess a wide range of skills involved in thinking critically, with an emphasis on skills that are central to legal reasoning. These skills include drawing well-supported conclusions, reasoning by analogy, determining how additional evidence affects an argument, applying principles or rules, and identifying argument flaws.

Reading Comprehension: The questions in this section measures a candidates' ability to read, with understanding and insight, examples of lengthy and complex materials similar to those commonly encountered in law school. The Reading Comprehension section contains four sets of reading questions, each consisting of a selection of reading material, followed by four to nine questions that test reading and reasoning abilities.

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