Anyone ever had the balls to retake after getting a 180? Forum

[Skyhook]

Just wondering if anyone has ever had the balls to retake a 180 score just to prove it wasn't a fluke?
How many people retake between 175 and 179?

Somewhat simplistic to say that because X got a 180 first time round they will always get a 180. I suppose they're proved they are capable of achieving the maximum, but what about Y who gets 170/180 ? They've proved it too, but School Q decides it's going to average. They aren't really averaging X's score, they just accept that their average score would be 180 compared to Y's 175. Not a fair comparison.

[vanwinkle]

I forget which one, but founder of one of the LSAT test prep companies got a 180 at least four times just to prove he could.

[philip.platt]

I forget which one, but founder of one of the LSAT test prep companies got a 180 at least four times just to prove he could.

yeah it was Robin Singh

http://www.testmasters.net/lsat/whyWeAr ... ction.aspx

Date Score % Rank
October 2003 180 99
December 2001 180 99
June 2001 178 99
December 2000 180 99
December 1999 180 99
June 1999 179 99
September 1998 180 99
February 1997 180 99
December 1996 180 99
October 1996 179 99
June 1996 174 99
December 1995 180 99
September 1995 180 99
June 1995 173 99
February 1995 178 99
October 1994 180 99
June 1994 178 99
February 1994 173 99
December 1993 177 99
December 1992 180 99
October 1992 176 99
June 1992 177 99
February 1992 178 99
December 1991 173 99
December 1988 48 99

[OrdinarilySkilled]

Yea the testmasters guy got 10+ 180s. But he's clearly a db.

[kazu]

If you click the "Research/Data" tab at lsac.org they have data on the repeaters for the most recent lsat.

Apparently 2 people retook from a 180 and they both scored within 170-180.
A total of 7 people scored this time who originally scored between 175~179 (4 w/ 175s, 1 each for 176~179). They all scored within 170~180 except for one person who had scored 175, this time s/he scored in the 160~169 range.......
There's also data on how many scored higher, how many scored lower and how many got the same score.

[SullaFelix]

Just wondering if anyone has ever had the balls to retake a 180 score just to prove it wasn't a fluke?
How many people retake between 175 and 179?

Somewhat simplistic to say that because X got a 180 first time round they will always get a 180. I suppose they're proved they are capable of achieving the maximum, but what about Y who gets 170/180 ? They've proved it too, but School Q decides it's going to average. They aren't really averaging X's score, they just accept that their average score would be 180 compared to Y's 175. Not a fair comparison.

Next question: how many people have discovered their true love at their LSAT testing center?

I'm curious if the numbers are roughly the same for both questions.

[Skyhook]

True love...

The couple talking across me in June seemed like they were trying...
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So does this guy win a prize for 11 180's?
His average is 178 - do you think that counts against him at the schools that average!
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That repeater data was interesting, but I think they should have put what the actual retake score was, not just the range. It's too large a range to make any meaningful sense out of it.
e.g. 171 retakes and gets 169. In the table they go into the 160-169 range, we are left wondering which end of the range they were at.
Conversely, 166 retakes and ends up in 170-180 band. How much did they really improve?

[Indebted]

If you click the "Research/Data" tab at lsac.org they have data on the repeaters for the most recent lsat.

The LSAC data you're citing is not from the most recent test. It is from 07-08. Just something to consider.

See: http://members.lsac.org/Public/MainPage ... Page2.aspx

[Bildungsroman]

In 2008-2009, 3 people retook the LSAT after having earned a 180 at some point in their past.

http://www.lsac.org/pdfs/RepeaterData.pdf

Edit: and their average score on the retake was a 178.3, which means the lowest score one of them could have gotten on the retake was a 175 (if the other two got 180 each).