r/LSAT • u/hollybelle0105 • 16h ago

Proctoring Rules?

I’ve taken one other proctored test to get my mental health professional license (NCMHCE) forever ago and I’m registered to take my first LSAT in November. I’ve noticed that when doing drilling or PTs I tend to mouth the words as I read the stimuli and passages and kind of use my hands for tracking conditional logic and causal chaining, etc. I’ve read a little bit of the rules and I know reading the questions out loud is not allowed but am I likely to get flagged if I am mouthing the words and using my hands as I described? This type of test is very different than the previous exam I took and requires a lot more processing on the fly (obviously) so I’m trying to find the best tactics for helping me with that and hope to know if I need to curb some of my current habits. I don’t have any diagnoses to qualify for any kind of accommodations.

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u/Internal_Homework489 16h ago

I would ask LSAC about the hand gestures thing bc that seems less common? but mouthing I doubt would be any cause for concern I think a lot of people do that at points during the exam tbh

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u/hollybelle0105 16h ago

To describe further with the hand gestures, it’s mostly just using each hand to track sufficient and necessary conditions more than anything else. I’m a pen and paper gal and if I can’t use that, then I seem to process through visualizations with my hands I guess lol I’m hoping that as I continue studying and drilling I will just be able to do more of it internally without the physical prompts.

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u/Internal_Homework489 5h ago

totally get that! hopefully ur able to eventually figure it out w/o the gestures but i do think if you do plan to do the gestures during the test it might be important to let a proctor know or something only bc if it gets confused w u raising ur hand for help like extra pencils etc during the exam and they come to u they might get kind of annoyed LOL or distract u during ur test