Although this may come off as a bit petty, I find it to be incredibly annoying. Below is a picture of the classroom I’ll be taking the LSAT in on Monday. Note the size of the desk attached to the chair. I actually went to the room today a few hours ago and put PT60 on the desk… the desk wasn’t large enough to accommodate the test booklet while open. WTF was the school thinking? The size of the desk is going to cost test takers a few points just due to the time alone it will take to have to shuffle between your answer sheet and test booklet. Not to mention, the desk is not large enough to accommodate a watch, if you wanted to put one on the desk, etc… Oh, and of course, LSAC told me that there are not requirements for a testing center other than the site must have proctors eligible to proctor the exam, the exam must be indoors, and a desk, no matter the size, must be provided to test takers.
I hadn’t even thought about it before this thread, though I had scoped out the website a bit. I’ve been more concerned with finding the damn place. Now I’m starting to come up with some sort of juggling routine to switch back and forth between the answer sheet and test booklet. So much pressure.
It’s near the Sun Dome, which is nice, since it has it’s own parking area. It is going to be annoying, and unnecessarily time-consuming, to have to switch back and forth between booklet and exam sheet. And, an RC, it’s going to suck because you can’t really fit the entire booklet on the desk, so you’ll have to constantly shift the test booklet back and forth from questions to passage. I’m going to do a PT today where I just answer all the questions and bubble everything in the last 3 minutes, as that will be the least time consuming and most practical given the exam setting.
Yeah, that’s really too bad . . . I don’t know what techniques you’ve been using for your practice tests but you might save time bubbling in answers if you circle the answers in your book and then bubble your answers after every page (or every two page spread) - this will save time transferring between your test book and answer sheet.
Maybe you can get the proctor to project a clock onto the fancy screen in the front of the class?
I actually paid the stupid fee to LSAC to change the location of my LSAT once I realized the location I initially had chosen had stupid desks like the one you’re testing at. The location I switched to had huge tables with more than enough space for everyone.
The location on my ticket just appeared today, so I wasn’t aware of the problem before the location change date. I called LSAC but it is too late to change now, no exceptions.
It’s the curse of the flap-up mini-desks. Those things suck. Since they tilt and pencils roll downhill, bring a big heavy eraser to use as a blocker and paperweight so your stuff doesn’t fall onto the floor and your pencils don’t roll down a few aisles under the seats. Stab your extra pencils into your eraser to keep them put if necessary.
Did the same thing, except worse:
Decided to switch test centers after realizing the desks would suck and paid that fee, THEN decided to postpone to October and paid ANOTHER fee. Damn indecisiveness.
