Difference between old and new LGs
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:17 pm
Firstly, where would you say is a good dividing point between old and new LGs?
Secondly, what are the main differences between the old and new LGs?
I ask this because, for some odd reason, I seem to be much better at the old LGs than the new LGs. And by new LGs, I mean games from PTs 50-56.
When I first started doing PTs in July, I went through "10 Actual LSATs" (PTs 7-18). Aside from a couple of early tests where I was just getting the hang of things, I always got -0 or -1 on the LGs. I've been surprised to learn that a few of the games from that book are regarded as among the hardest ever, since I don't remember being utterly stumped by any of them.
August was pretty much the same. I went through "10 More Actual LSATs" and continued to have little difficulty in LG.
In September, I received PTs 49-60, and for some reason, my LGs aren't as solid anymore. In order to improve, I bought "10 Next LSATs", which have some of the hardest LGs ever written. While they are difficult, I managed to get through some of the most infamously difficult ones in relatively good time (e.g. CD Store, Birds in a Forest, Jewels in a Ring). I had even taken PT 36 as a cold diagnostic, and that test apparently included some tough games like the Fruit Stand and Windows and Aisles; yet I managed to score a -4 on a cold diagnostic!
Yet I completely bombed PT 52 (for some reason, needed to just cancel the PT and give myself almost an hour to finish it) and PT 56's (-6!) LG section, getting scores far worse than I've ever gotten in an LG section before. Even on my cold diagnostic! And even on LG sections that I felt I did well on, I'd get sometimes -3 (which never happened with the old PTs unless I really bombed a LG section).
If anyone can tell me what the main differences are between the old LGs and new LGs, then I could try to figure out why I do better on older LGs than newer ones.
Secondly, what are the main differences between the old and new LGs?
I ask this because, for some odd reason, I seem to be much better at the old LGs than the new LGs. And by new LGs, I mean games from PTs 50-56.
When I first started doing PTs in July, I went through "10 Actual LSATs" (PTs 7-18). Aside from a couple of early tests where I was just getting the hang of things, I always got -0 or -1 on the LGs. I've been surprised to learn that a few of the games from that book are regarded as among the hardest ever, since I don't remember being utterly stumped by any of them.
August was pretty much the same. I went through "10 More Actual LSATs" and continued to have little difficulty in LG.
In September, I received PTs 49-60, and for some reason, my LGs aren't as solid anymore. In order to improve, I bought "10 Next LSATs", which have some of the hardest LGs ever written. While they are difficult, I managed to get through some of the most infamously difficult ones in relatively good time (e.g. CD Store, Birds in a Forest, Jewels in a Ring). I had even taken PT 36 as a cold diagnostic, and that test apparently included some tough games like the Fruit Stand and Windows and Aisles; yet I managed to score a -4 on a cold diagnostic!
Yet I completely bombed PT 52 (for some reason, needed to just cancel the PT and give myself almost an hour to finish it) and PT 56's (-6!) LG section, getting scores far worse than I've ever gotten in an LG section before. Even on my cold diagnostic! And even on LG sections that I felt I did well on, I'd get sometimes -3 (which never happened with the old PTs unless I really bombed a LG section).
If anyone can tell me what the main differences are between the old LGs and new LGs, then I could try to figure out why I do better on older LGs than newer ones.