This petition is for all LSAT test takers, who now, previously, or henceforth have been/will be affected by a non-standard version of the LSAT.

Since 1991, LSAC has been producing a test for aspiring law students entitled the LSAT (Law School Admissions Tests). To receive acceptance into almost all law schools, an aspiring law student must take this test. The test is composed of four graded sections: two Logical Reasoning sections, a Analytical Reasoning section, and a Reading Comprehension section. In total, there are roughly 99-101 questions on each test. The test is administered four times a year: February, June, October, and December. Aspiring law students have the option of taking the test multiple times if they are not satisfied with their score

The implications of the LSAT on an aspiring law student's acceptance into law schools are huge. Though the score range is from 120-180, one must, generally, make at least a 170 to get into some of the best schools. To receive a 50th percentile score (151) means you have very little options as to where you can attend law school. Though the GPA can compensate for a low LSAT score, there can be no doubt that the test by and large dictates where you can attend law school.

Now to the petition. In the June 2014 LSAT, recently administered and scored, many takers were dumbfounded by a final 'game' in the Analytical Reasoning section. This game required that you perform a task that was at odds with the tasks that had been traditionally required of you in previous tests. In essence, you were required to develop odd sequential patterns from a lengthy text. Though there are some who did well, the game was by all means nonstandard. A game such as this, arguably, has not appeared on a test since 1991, and certainly not in the past ten years.

Though LSAT is known to throw a "curve-ball" every now and again to really test the testaker, they usually do so compensating the taker with an easier section and an overly generous curve. The 'curve' is a preset number of questions that you can get wrong to receive the score of 170. In the case of this test, the test taker received only a moderately generous curve of -13. Curves range from 9-14. Many test takers have stated that their scores were at odds with previous scores from not only practice tests, but from previously administered tests.

So, what do we want? We want LSAC to strive to make a test from test date to test date that conforms to rigorous standards of uniformity. The magnitude of this test cannot be forgotten in this plead. LSAC shall develop a standard approach to the Analytical Reasoning section. We all know that "Analytical Reasoning" is a broad subject. It could mean a plethora of things. However, this is a standardized test, and the scope of this section ought to be limited in such a way to so reflect. Finally, we want LSAC to make fair warnings to it's testakers when significant changes to the material is made. This was done in June 2007 with the introduction of the Comparative Passage in Reading Comprehension, and can certainly be done again.

To anyone and everyone that is reading this and is/will be affected by this I want you to understand: we just want LSAC to produce a test that is reflective of the skills that it is supposed test in a standardized way. Serious variations that detract the test from this purpose are counterproductive to the goal of the test. Please join me in action and demand that LSAC be more just in their making of the LSAT.