LSAT (Law School Admission test) is examination for admission into Law schools is now going to be digital. According to the Law School Admission council, the digital format will be starting from July this season and will have the same multiple choice questions as that was earlier in the offline format. The council further said that it will be available on the tablets. The applicants will be provided with a table at the examination centre to take the exam.

The LSAT will be comprising of two sessions of tests. LSAC said in an email that it will shorten the time for the examination takers to sit at once. The two sections will be taken in a break. It means that session two will start after a break once session one ends.

The online examination will reduce the time for recording the scores as it will give the scores instantly. This online examination on tablet will also discourage cheating and any manipulation in the applicant scores.
The field testing has shown that applicants find the digital format easy to use and the feedback was found positive. This will also shorten the delivery time of scores and applicants will now get more time to focus on other steps of the exam. This was said by Troy Lowry who is the senior vice president of technology products and chief information officer at Law School Admission Council.

The new digital platform will make exam even more easier as in offline exams, applicants had to put answers in the sheet too where there were a lot of chances to put it in wrong places during last minutes. Therefore, it will help make students less error in exams.

Axel Sarkissian view on Online LSAT

Axel Sarkissian, leader of the Pre-Law Society at UCLA, said the new changes will have both positive and negative effects, and it is imperative to know how it will influence the graduate school confirmations process.
Sarkissian said he supposes understudies will probably step through the exam all the more as often as possible given the expanded availability of the new advanced configuration and the evacuation of a top on how frequently they can step through the examination after 2017.

He further said that this can be easier for applicants if they practice it daily as it will improve their number of question attempts on Digital platform and even make them more profound to the tests. But it will have its negative impacts as it will increase the high scores in LSAT exam and make it even more competitive for the applicants. If you’re once of aspiring applicant for LSAT, We highly recommend you to Prepare yourself with lsat books before taking the test

Rachel Sheffield view on New LSAT Platform

Rachel Sheffield who is the Academy support for LSAT planning organization TestMasters, said the progressions to the LSAT is going to be more valuable to the applicants since they will expand the quality of the test.

“Applicants often come and say that they have got less time and they look disappointed,” she said. “In this new Digital format, each and every tablet has its own time and applicants will know at every point of time that how much time they have left for the exam.

She further said the advanced practice tests will enable TestMasters to come up will more information and then they can counsel students on how to prepare for the tests further.

LSAC Tie Up with Microsoft for LSAT Online Exam

This was announced by LSAC in December that it is collaborating with Microsoft for online examination. The LSAT exam was being taken as pen and paper format for the last 70 years and now it’s the time to change it to an easy and less time consuming process. It was further announced that LSAT will be held on Microsoft Surface Go tablets. It was further said that after a lot of research and consideration, LSAC found that Microsoft’s Surface Go was the best device for LSAT examinations. The device is secure and its manageability is also easy with its design and size.

Benefits of Digital LSAT Exam

•The Digital LSAT will speed up score delivery time. So, no more worries for late results.
•Easy to highlight important parts of the questions.
•Easy to eliminate answers and highlight question you want see later if you get time.
•Since, there is no separate answer sheet you don’t have to worry about mistake in putting answers to wrong rows.…

Britain’s most senior family law judge has declared its time for no-fault divorce to be the standard form of divorce in the UK.

Sir Nicholas Wall, who is president of the High Court Family Division, said that there was “no good arguments against no-fault divorce” that he could see.

Currently divorce law in England and Wales means that a person has to file a divorce petition in court stating that their marriage has broken down, citing one of five reasons – adultery, unreasonable behaviour, desertion after two years, two years’ separation with consent or five years’ separation without consent. If both parties do not dispute these grounds and the court agrees, then a decree nisi is drawn up, followed by a decree absolute, which ends the marriage.

Plans were drawn up for no-fault divorces in 1996, but scrapped before implementation.

Speaking to a conference of family lawyers, Sir Nicholas said: “In the 19th Century and for much of the 20th, divorce was a matter of social status – it mattered whether you were divorced or not, and if you were, it was important to demonstrate that you were the ‘innocent party’. All that, I think, has gone.”…