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[TheSharklord]

Off by 1 point for me.

This is like some kind of academic urban legend from grade school. =P

[rm21]

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[SeanB]

Is the based on 1000 SAT being 50% percentile? When I took it, it was before they rebalanced it. My 640 verbal was 96% and my 570 math was 85%. Seriously.

[jbarl1]

wow.

hit it dead on for me.

Me too...I never studied for either of the tests to I guess that shows haha

[whitman]

Predicted a 173.38 for me. I'll find out in a couple days how accurate that was...

Anyone else find the LSAT much harder? I didn't study at all for the SAT and did really well but have studied my ass off for the LSAT just to bump my diagnostic up from a 163 to hopefully a 170+.

[Thirteen]

Gave me a 167, actually got a 169. Not bad.

[holborn]

for me, its 3 points below my actual LSAT. However, if you ignore my math score and calculate it using my verbal score x2, its dead on. haha good thing lawyers don't need math.

[starstruck393]

I must be an outlier. It predicted 5 points lower than my actual LSAT, and nearly 20 points lower if you use my converted ACT score...

[BenJ]

I'm just barely within MoE, a 174 by this calculation but actually a 178. Calculating with just my verbal score would make things even worse; my verbal score (740) alone predicts a 171.5. My math score (790) still only predicts a 176. Of course, it can't predict any higher than a 177, so I suppose that's pretty good.

[Z3RO]

It predicted that I would get 19 points lower on the LSAT than I actually did...

[ariadne86]

I'm just barely within MoE, a 174 by this calculation but actually a 178. Calculating with just my verbal score would make things even worse; my verbal score (740) alone predicts a 171.5. My math score (790) still only predicts a 176. Of course, it can't predict any higher than a 177, so I suppose that's pretty good.

Similar here. Predicted ~175 based on 1550 SAT. Actually got a 177.

[84Sunbird2000]

Should have gotten a 172. Shoot. I underachieved massively on my LSAT.

[yeff]

My converted ACT was way above my SAT, and if I use that, hit my LSAT dead on. SAT converted gives me 7 below though.

[T14_Scholly]

7 points below my actual LSAT score.

[Honeysuckle]

Sorry, I use a different formula for calculating SAT-LSAT correlation. My old tutor said that one's starting point should be the verbal score with the last zero removed and a one added to the front.

I got a 750 on the verbal section, so by the formula above, I should be getting a 175...not quite there yet though!

[existenz]

For me it was off by two points. Pretty close though.

[existenz]

Is the based on 1000 SAT being 50% percentile? When I took it, it was before they rebalanced it. My 640 verbal was 96% and my 570 math was 85%. Seriously.

If you took the SAT before 1995, then you need to convert it to the new calculation. For example, my 1420 in 1994 would be a 1490 now.

[Stringer Bell]

My LSAT score was 13 points higher than this prediction.

[Columbia Law]

Thank you for bumping an old thread.

[quetzalcoatl]

Flipping it around, should have got a 1450 SAT. Only got a 1350 though. I was such a slacker in highschool, didnt even study for SAT.

[clevinger33]

[Doritos]

Flipping it around, should have got a 1450 SAT. Only got a 1350 though. I was such a slacker in highschool, didnt even study for SAT.

Study for the SAT? I didn't study for the SAT and got a 1600. That test was easy.

Wow, you totally deserve one of these...

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[clevinger33]

[brose002]

Wow according to this, I should have gotten a 152. I got a 168. My SAT was pretty pathetic, but in my defense, my grandpa died the night before the test. I also didn't study or retake.

[Bauer24]

According to SAT: 175
Actual LSAT: 177
Close enough,

A difference is that I didn't study for the SAT at all and I was hardcore about studying for the LSAT (self-studied, no prep).
My GPA started with a 2 when I took the LSAT...