The second largest category was computer hardware, which was number one lsat year.

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An academic pioneer of sorts, Kaplan was the first company to make a business out of tutoring students for standardized tests like the SAT, LSAT and GRE.

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How well you do on the LSAT is a pretty good test of your abilities in that regard even though neither has much to do with the actual practice of law.

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Plenty of my school fellows did just OK in high school, went to second-rank universities, where they majored in having a good time, crammed for the LSAT (law school test) and squeezed into second-rank law schools or business schools.

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After scoring miserably on the LSAT exam twice and deciding to forgo law school, she spent a nightmarish three months on a moving walkway at Disney World, wearing Mickey Mouse ears and guiding customers onto an Epcot Center ride.

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That may help, but with Kaplan and new competitors like TestMasters in Los Angeles, it's not clear that Princeton Review can boost its 27% share of the SAT prep market or its smaller share of the market for other tests like the LSAT.

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What about writing the LSAT?

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