We want to prevent bad actors from abusing our policy. We saw repeaters who were concerning to us—more than we expected—in some tiny minority of cases. [The council] has to be cautious of the people who try to strategize about how to get an unfair advantage on our test.

— Lily Knezevich, senior vice president for learning and assessment at the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), commenting on the reinstatement of limits on the number of times people may take the LSAT each year. Beginning in September, pre-law students may only take the LSAT three times in a testing year, which runs from June through May. Under the new rules, would-be law students may take the LSAT up to seven times total. LSAC had previously done away with these limits in 2017 when it increased the numner of LSAT testing dates from four to nine.

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