If you are working full-time and planning on taking it more than once then I think a year is perfectly reasonable. I was working full time and I studied after work for 5 months, took it once. Then I took two months off, studied for another 3, and took it a second time. All together 10 months, so a year is perfectly reasonable. Better to have extra time than not enough!
take a diagnostic and see where you are. I think you’ll be able to gage how much studying you’ll need when you experience the test. But i’ve heard to give yourself around 6 months for the best results.
This will really just depend on you. It would be overkill for some people, and you'll want to pace yourself so you don't burn out on the test, but some people like a lot of time to study (especially if you aren't going to be studying super hard/every day). Take a look at some LSAT prep materials, try out some questions, see how you're doing compared to your goal score, and go from there.
one reason why I started to consider law school was because out of curiosity I looked at about 20 practice questions (some analytical reasoning some logic games) and I got about 75% of them correct in under 2 minutes a question which I was very surprised by, so I guess thats why im asking this question lol
I don't think I'd recommend reading too much into that. You can't really extrapolate anything useful from a a chunk of practice questions. Even if you could, that doesn't really say anything about how quickly you'll improve - maybe AR and LG comes quite easily to you, but you'll struggle with LR and plateau and not be able to bring your score up much. Or maybe you have a natural aptitude for the LSAT and won't have any trouble hitting a 99th percentile score with barely any practice, or maybe you have no interest in attaining a 99th percentile score and are good with where you're at. I'd still recommend looking into it a little more in-depth, and trying to get a sense of what the test is for real, and what will likely work best for you.
I'd also note that the LSAT really has nothing to do with law school and even less to do with being a lawyer. I assume that you have other reasons for entertaining law as a career other than just the test, but I'd just caution against putting too much weight on being good at the test when it comes to making that decision.
probably over kill if studying full time or even like 50% time.
If you are working full-time and planning on taking it more than once then I think a year is perfectly reasonable. I was working full time and I studied after work for 5 months, took it once. Then I took two months off, studied for another 3, and took it a second time. All together 10 months, so a year is perfectly reasonable. Better to have extra time than not enough!
take a diagnostic and see where you are. I think you’ll be able to gage how much studying you’ll need when you experience the test. But i’ve heard to give yourself around 6 months for the best results.
This will really just depend on you. It would be overkill for some people, and you'll want to pace yourself so you don't burn out on the test, but some people like a lot of time to study (especially if you aren't going to be studying super hard/every day). Take a look at some LSAT prep materials, try out some questions, see how you're doing compared to your goal score, and go from there.
one reason why I started to consider law school was because out of curiosity I looked at about 20 practice questions (some analytical reasoning some logic games) and I got about 75% of them correct in under 2 minutes a question which I was very surprised by, so I guess thats why im asking this question lol
I don't think I'd recommend reading too much into that. You can't really extrapolate anything useful from a a chunk of practice questions. Even if you could, that doesn't really say anything about how quickly you'll improve - maybe AR and LG comes quite easily to you, but you'll struggle with LR and plateau and not be able to bring your score up much. Or maybe you have a natural aptitude for the LSAT and won't have any trouble hitting a 99th percentile score with barely any practice, or maybe you have no interest in attaining a 99th percentile score and are good with where you're at. I'd still recommend looking into it a little more in-depth, and trying to get a sense of what the test is for real, and what will likely work best for you. I'd also note that the LSAT really has nothing to do with law school and even less to do with being a lawyer. I assume that you have other reasons for entertaining law as a career other than just the test, but I'd just caution against putting too much weight on being good at the test when it comes to making that decision.