The Law School Admission Test's 69-year stint as a pencil-and-paper exam could be coming to a close.

The Law School Admission Council Inc., which administers the LSAT, on May 20, will conduct the first nationwide digital exam with 1,000 prospective law students taking the test on tablet computers. The May exam is just a pilot to test the logistics of deploying the tablets, and the scores won't be official or be provided to schools for admissions purposes. But the large-scale test signals that the LSAC is closely examining a digital future.

“The LSAT is the last remaining paper-and-pencil test out there, at least in the graduate school admissions space,” said Jeff Thomas, executive director of pre-law programs for Kaplan Test Prep. “They're late to the game.”