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so how does the curve affect the people who have to take the rescheduled test? for instance, if the test given today (feb 6th) was extraordinarily difficult, and the test we take next week is unusually easy, will the curve benefit the takers of the 'easy' test? or will the curve for each test be different?

jtoppe2 wrote:so how does the curve affect the people who have to take the rescheduled test? for instance, if the test given today (feb 6th) was extraordinarily difficult, and the test we take next week is unusually easy, will the curve benefit the takers of the 'easy' test? or will the curve for each test be different?

Each test has its own predetermined curve.

Care to elaborate?

AffirmativeFaction wrote:Care to elaborate?

LSAC already knows what a 170 is for the test you took. They base it off how people did on your test when they were experimental sections in the past.

Desert Fox wrote:

AffirmativeFaction wrote:Care to elaborate?

LSAC already knows what a 170 is for the test you took. They base it off how people did on your test when they were experimental sections in the past.

So every single section has been a test section before? They obviously weren't administered all to the same students, how do they account for the variance over difference groups?

AffirmativeFaction wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

AffirmativeFaction wrote:Care to elaborate?

LSAC already knows what a 170 is for the test you took. They base it off how people did on your test when they were experimental sections in the past.

So every single section has been a test section before? They obviously weren't administered all to the same students, how do they account for the variance over difference groups?

They administer it to a large sampling, and then compare the results of that test takers experimental to that tests total score on the rest of the test. At least I'd imagine that is how they do it.

They also administer it several times.

Desert Fox wrote:

AffirmativeFaction wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

AffirmativeFaction wrote:Care to elaborate?

LSAC already knows what a 170 is for the test you took. They base it off how people did on your test when they were experimental sections in the past.

So every single section has been a test section before? They obviously weren't administered all to the same students, how do they account for the variance over difference groups?

They administer it to a large sampling, and then compare the results of that test takers experimental to that tests total score on the rest of the test. At least I'd imagine that is how they do it.

They also administer it several times.

So they just take the average? You can't really compile totals for separate curves of different individual sections accurately to reflect a regular, whole curve.

AffirmativeFaction wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:

AffirmativeFaction wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:
LSAC already knows what a 170 is for the test you took. They base it off how people did on your test when they were experimental sections in the past.

So every single section has been a test section before? They obviously weren't administered all to the same students, how do they account for the variance over difference groups?

They administer it to a large sampling, and then compare the results of that test takers experimental to that tests total score on the rest of the test. At least I'd imagine that is how they do it.

They also administer it several times.

So they just take the average? You can't really compile totals for separate curves of different individual sections accurately to reflect a regular, whole curve.

Why not?

It doesn't matter. That's the point of the curve - to make the difficulty of each test "equal."

Yep... the rescheduled test will have a different curve.