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sox49 · Post by **sox49** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:30 pm

Was the LR with legal protections and emails real? It also had a question about wilke and will and police dramas or something..

Petrichor · Post by **Petrichor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:31 pm

87mm wrote:There is a string of people on the east coast who will take their LSAT in a couple weeks (due to weather). How would that impact this curve?

I hope -12 is a curve we get. The most recent LSATs have been quite difficult and unless the test is ramping up, I hope that the curve is in our favor.

it doesn't, the scale is pre-set.

Op_Diom · Post by **Op_Diom** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:31 pm

MrBalloons wrote:All you -8 predictors can suck a butt.

I feel like those games (or game 3, really) may be disproportionally easy for the TLS crowd. I'm guessing/hoping the average Joe Six Pack got screwed by them.

The guy next to me literally flipped one page over during the entire LG section. I'm guessing he stumbled upon the third or second game and said screw it.

I also heard some girl after the test tell her friend, 'I didn't realize how easy it was going to be. I mean, it was just like common sense or your opinion really, you know?' Oh, ignorance is bliss indeed.

Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:31 pm

chalky wrote:How many complete the passage (fill in the blank) questions did everyone have? I feel like one LR had 3 of them. Hoping that was experimental.

Quite a few from what I remember.

I will say this, don't think I had any main conclusion questions...sad because they can be freebees.

Petrichor · Post by **Petrichor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:31 pm

sox49 wrote:blah blah

don't remember first part but if the second part is in the same section, real.

mornincounselor · Post by **mornincounselor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:32 pm

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Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:33 pm

Petrichor wrote:
87mm wrote:There is a string of people on the east coast who will take their LSAT in a couple weeks (due to weather). How would that impact this curve?

I hope -12 is a curve we get. The most recent LSATs have been quite difficult and unless the test is ramping up, I hope that the curve is in our favor.
it doesn't, the scale is pre-set.

Have all sections on the LSAT previously been administered as an experimental at some point? Im asking because I was so certain that I had done the first LR before as an experimental. Does the LSAC just take the questions they want and mishmash them into a section?

chalky · Post by **chalky** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:34 pm

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PatriotP74 · Post by **PatriotP74** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:34 pm

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Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:34 pm

mornincounselor wrote:Based on my exp RC I predict RC is going to get harder. They did something specific (involving scope) which I've never seen on a past RC.

Which was? If you can say...

Petrichor · Post by **Petrichor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:35 pm

Judgeasaurus_Rex wrote:
Petrichor wrote:
87mm wrote:There is a string of people on the east coast who will take their LSAT in a couple weeks (due to weather). How would that impact this curve?

I hope -12 is a curve we get. The most recent LSATs have been quite difficult and unless the test is ramping up, I hope that the curve is in our favor.
it doesn't, the scale is pre-set.
Have all sections on the LSAT previously been administered as an experimental at some point? Im asking because I was so certain that I had done the first LR before as an experimental. Does the LSAC just take the questions they want and mishmash them into a section?

don't know anything about that but it seems reasonable to me if they did that.

gatesome · Post by **gatesome** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:37 pm

FYI

Easiest 'curve' (170) ever: -16 (twice, 1998 and 1999)
Harshest 'curve' (170) ever: -8 (June 2007 Free PT and Dec 2005)

MTDC2015 · Post by **MTDC2015** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:37 pm

Remember a question about Athens? That LR section was my first - RC LR LR LG LR - and it felt much more difficult than the others...

einsteinbros1104 wrote:
chalky wrote:
einsteinbros1104 wrote:hey guys,

I had

LR - 26 questions
LR - 26 questions
RC
LR - 25 questions
LG

As everyone has said, LG had the magazines, something about Fall and Spring, and shifts. The RC had the passages about beads, negative evidence, Beethoven.

Can anyone help me figure out with LR is experimental? I'm pretty sure the one with 25 questions counts (I'm pretty sure the question about ostriches is in this one but not entirely sure).

does anyone remember a LR with like 4 or 5 Bs in a row? Anyone remember a question about evidence of life on Mars (or some other planet), based on methane?
Which of the two LRs was harder for you, the first or the second? I had the same setup. Hoping the first was experimental.
The first was so much harder... Dunno if it was just a function of not getting into the groove yet. Also thinking that I may have misbubbled. F. Hoping the first was experimental as well, but someone responded telling me that the LR with the methane question was experimental, and that was on the second LR. Which other questions do you remember?

einsteinbros1104 · Post by **einsteinbros1104** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:38 pm

chalky wrote:Were microscopic diamonds and ostriches in different sections?

I think same.. not sure though. Both in 25 question section?

gatesome · Post by **gatesome** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:39 pm

Judgeasaurus_Rex wrote:
Petrichor wrote:
87mm wrote:There is a string of people on the east coast who will take their LSAT in a couple weeks (due to weather). How would that impact this curve?

I hope -12 is a curve we get. The most recent LSATs have been quite difficult and unless the test is ramping up, I hope that the curve is in our favor.
it doesn't, the scale is pre-set.
Have all sections on the LSAT previously been administered as an experimental at some point? Im asking because I was so certain that I had done the first LR before as an experimental. Does the LSAC just take the questions they want and mishmash them into a section?

All questions have been pre-tested to gauge for 'difficulty,' one of the factors used in their complex 'test equating' procedure.

http://www.lsac.org/docs/default-source ... -11-01.pdf

MrBalloons · Post by **MrBalloons** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:39 pm

Aaaand I'm now having the same realization as everybody else on game 3. That should've been easier.

monceau · Post by **monceau** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:39 pm

Woo we're done!

I had LR-LR-RC-LR-LG

LG was super easy, but I messed up the timing. RC wasn't as horrible as it usually is. LR seemed a little difficult in my opinion.

liz1001 · Post by **liz1001** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:42 pm

Judgeasaurus_Rex · Post by **Judgeasaurus_Rex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:42 pm

gatesome wrote:
Judgeasaurus_Rex wrote:
Petrichor wrote:
87mm wrote:There is a string of people on the east coast who will take their LSAT in a couple weeks (due to weather). How would that impact this curve?

I hope -12 is a curve we get. The most recent LSATs have been quite difficult and unless the test is ramping up, I hope that the curve is in our favor.
it doesn't, the scale is pre-set.
Have all sections on the LSAT previously been administered as an experimental at some point? Im asking because I was so certain that I had done the first LR before as an experimental. Does the LSAC just take the questions they want and mishmash them into a section?
All questions have been pre-tested to gauge for 'difficulty,' one of the factors used in their complex 'test equating' procedure.

http://www.lsac.org/docs/default-source ... -11-01.pdf

That is too technical for me to read ATM. I'll look at it later, but thanks!

SirArthurDayne · Post by **SirArthurDayne** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:46 pm

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sollos · Post by **sollos** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:50 pm

Mine went:

RC
LG
LR
LG
LR

I'm happy with my performance (though we'll see if that pans out in the end) at the moment. My only concern is that I figured out the hard LG problem right near the end, and didn't have enough time to get one last question answered. My fight or flight response kicked in pretty hard because of how last minute this was, so I wasn't able to focus as well on the final LR and might have been a bit sloppy on it.

CoolerThanCooley · Post by **CoolerThanCooley** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:51 pm

SirArthurDayne wrote:Had to guess on the last three questions on the last passage. Man that was a hard passage.

Amen. I didn't leave enough time for it.

Petrichor · Post by **Petrichor** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:52 pm

CoolerThanCooley wrote:
SirArthurDayne wrote:Had to guess on the last three questions on the last passage. Man that was a hard passage.
Amen. I didn't leave enough time for it.

felt the same way, for 1 LR and the RC pretty much ran out of time with 1-2 Qs left..not feeling good

acidwash · Post by **acidwash** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:55 pm

I misread a rule in the third LG game and didn't realize my mistake until I was kinda short on time. Then had to rush through the last game but I may have still pulled that one off okay. Mad at myself for the misreading because otherwise I felt like I did well. Last RC passage was kinda tough though.

CoolerThanCooley · Post by **CoolerThanCooley** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:05 pm

acidwash wrote:I misread a rule in the third LG game and didn't realize my mistake until I was kinda short on time. Then had to rush through the last game but I may have still pulled that one off okay. Mad at myself for the misreading because otherwise I felt like I did well. Last RC passage was kinda tough though.

I didn't misread the rules, but I still did terribly on that game. I guessed on two of the questions.