Mikey wrote:GnarMarBinx wrote:Wait so you mean that LSAC somehow figures out the difficulty of the test before they actually administer it and the curve is totally predetermined? If that's the case, how do different scores equal different percentiles? Wouldn't the curve actually have to represent how people did on the test, not just how hard LSAC believes it to be?
I see the confusion, lots of people think the curve on the LSAT is based on how people do on that specific test day, but it's not.
We get experimental sections, and the sections that we get have already been done by people yearsss ago as their experimental sections. So the experimental section you have will be a real section for someone way later on in the future. this is how they determine the overall curve of each administration. they don't give us experimental sections just becausewell, to test questions yes but also to test the sections overall.
but how people did this past saturday on the test does not at all affect the curve since it is already pre-determined.
Ahhhhh, I thought the experimental was specifically just to test questions - some that they will use, and some that they will not. I had no idea that all of the sections had been previously administered and given a certain difficulty rating. Interesting.