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New York, NY (August 15, 2018) — Test prep and teacher office hours enter the subscription economy as Kaplan Test Prep, a premier provider of educational and career services, and Cengage, an education and technology company, have announced a partnership that will provide free test prep and live academic support offerings for Cengage Unlimited subscribers.
As part of the venture, Kaplan will provide specially designed free test preparation offerings for the GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MCAT®, DAT® and Praxis® to subscribers of Cengage Unlimited, Cengage’s all-in-one digital subscription for unlimited access to course materials. Cengage Unlimited subscribers will also have free access to Kaplan’s HelpSuite of live online academic support for Physics, Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, which provides live help from expert teachers through online office hours, live chat and email, as well as on-demand videos and quizzes. Subscribers will receive 30 days of free access per semester to both the test prep offerings and the live academic support programs from Kaplan.
Judah Karkowsky, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development for Cengage, noted affordability of academic services is top of mind for college students, as highlighted in a recently released Cengage survey conducted by Morning Consult. “Buying course materials is college students’ biggest source of financial stress after tuition, which makes this partnership especially timely as they head back to school this month,” said Karkowsky. “Cengage Unlimited gives us the ideal platform to serve students over their entire college career with resources and tools they need to take the next leap in life — whether that is with quality Cengage materials or Kaplan’s best-in-class prep products and services. Together, we’re providing that added value for free to students for 30 days as part of their subscription.”
Furthermore, this partnership comes as subscriptions become an increasingly common way to access products and services online. A recent survey by McKinsey & Company reports that the subscription e-commerce market has grown by more than 100 percent each of the past five years.
“Kaplan and Cengage share the mission of making educational advancement a reality for as many students as possible and making it accessible to them in the ways they want, whether it’s a month-to-month subscription or a one-time purchase,” said Lee Weiss, Vice President, Kaplan Test Prep. “Whichever way they choose, access to our graduate-level prep and academic support tools will provide college students with a great way to get exposure to options as they seek to differentiate themselves in a competitive world.”
As part of the partnership, Kaplan also becomes Cengage’s exclusive test prep provider.
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Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Among those tests are the SAT®, PSAT®, ACT®, GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MCAT®, NCLEX-RN® and bar exams. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. As the largest US-based provider of teaching and learning materials for higher ed, we offer valuable options at affordable price points. Our industry-leading initiatives include Cengage Unlimited, the first-of-its-kind all-access digital subscription service. We embrace innovation to create learning experiences that build confidence and momentum toward the future students want. Headquartered in Boston, Cengage also serves K-12, library and workforce training markets around the world. Visit us at www.cengage.com or find us on Facebook or Twitter.
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The ABA has withdrawn a proposal to eliminate the standardized testing requirement in law school admissions, so the LSAT should remain a primary focus for prospective students.
New York, NY (August 7, 2018) — The following statement about the American Bar Association’s decision to withdraw a proposal to eliminate the admissions test requirement for law schools comes from Jeff Thomas, executive director of pre-law programs, Kaplan Test Prep:
“The ABA’s decision to withdraw the proposed rule change allowing for test-optional admissions policies means that the law school admissions process remains unchanged for now. Schools must continue to require that their applicants take a standardized test, be it the LSAT, GRE, or even the GMAT, as two law schools currently allow some applicants to do.
“Considering the potential significance this rule change would have had on the law school admissions landscape, it’s understandable why this decision has been postponed. It’s important to note that it only passed by one vote in committee this past May. A close vote doesn’t equal consensus and that may have given many ABA members some pause about making such a drastic change. The postponement also allows schools that are considering using the GRE and GMAT more time to conduct validity studies, a requirement for offering alternatives to the LSAT.
“The reality is that regardless of what the ABA ultimately decides, any major changes to admissions policies do not happen overnight. Prospective students applying to law school this fall should still consider the LSAT a central component of their admissions strategy, as it’s the only test accepted at every ABA-accredited law school. Aspiring attorneys applying to start in 2020 or beyond may have other viable admissions strategies, but we’ll have to wait and see how this plays out first.
“We’ll be tracking this issue closely over the next few weeks and months as we conduct our annual admissions officers survey, speaking with law schools directly about which test scores they plan to allow applicants to submit. In our 2017 survey, 25 percent of schools said they were considering allowing their applicants to submit GRE scores in lieu of LSAT scores. A lot has changed since that time, so that percentage may increase, as the call for change among law schools remains strong.”
About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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A new Kaplan Test Prep survey finds strong support for standardized testing to be part of the law school admissions process.
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New York, NY (August 2, 2018) — As the American Bar Association prepares to announce if it will lift the rule mandating all accredited law schools require applicants to submit a score from a standardized test like the LSAT® or GRE®, pre-law students are rendering their own verdict. According to a Kaplan Test Prep survey, 58 percent of aspiring lawyers say the ABA should keep the standardized testing requirement in place, 36 percent want it lifted, and 6 percent are not sure.*
One student who favored keeping the requirement shared, “The LSAT puts all students on a level playing field. GPAs vary tremendously based on school and major so the LSAT is a good way to score all students,” while another said, “The LSAT is an important indicator of how students perform under pressure and timed. It also is a good equalizer.” An opponent of the requirement said, “I don’t think standardized tests are really measuring a student’s ability to excel at a law school. It’s just measuring how good you are at taking standardized tests.”
The origin of the ABA’s pending decision came two and a half years ago, when, during the tail end of an unprecedented application drought affecting law schools nationwide, the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law announced that it would begin allowing applicants to submit GRE scores in lieu of LSAT scores for admissions. Since that February 2016 move, more than 20 other law schools across the country (including many of the top-ranked programs like Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA) adopted this policy too, in an effort to expand and diversify their applicant pool. Most recently, Cornell and UPenn not only began to accept the GRE, but also the GMAT®, which has long been the admissions test used by business schools.
The decision, expected to be announced within the next week at the 2018 Chicago ABA Annual Meeting, may go one of two ways:
“Most pre-law students and their future selves — law school students — are fair, but fiercely competitive, so the fact that a strong majority wants a standardized admissions test as a screening element makes sense based on everything we know about them,” said Jeff Thomas, executive director of pre-law programs, Kaplan Test Prep. “It’s important to note that even if the recommendation to lift the testing requirement is approved and implemented, it’s doubtful that law schools will decide en masse to do so. In fact, we expect many will stick with their own admissions test requirement, be it the LSAT, GRE, or GMAT, as admitting students unlikely to complete their legal education (as measured by high dropout rates and/or low bar passage rates) would risk the school losing its accreditation. In that sense, standardized tests act like a safeguard against bad admissions practices that can have long-term ramifications for both law schools and their students. Additionally, recent Kaplan research shows that pre-law students would submit an LSAT score anyway to gain a competitive advantage over those who do not.”
To schedule an interview about Kaplan’s survey results, please contact Mike Tague at michael.tague@kaplan.com or 212-974-2785.
*Based on the results of a Kaplan Test Prep survey conducted by email in July 2018 of 127 pre-law students who took a Kaplan LSAT preparation course.
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About Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep (www.kaptest.com) is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry. With a comprehensive menu of online offerings as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 100 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as professional licensing exams for attorneys, physicians and nurses. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and graduate admissions consulting services.
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