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Is this true?
The experimental section is apparently always in the first three sections of the test. So if I have one LG section in the first 3 and one after the break, I can without a doubt conclude that the first LG section was the experimental?
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Pray you have an experimental LG section instead of LR or RC.
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Yup, but the test is constructed such that you would never know which section is the experiemental while you are actually doing the experimental section. But, as you noted, it is possible to know which is the experimental later in the test, when you see a duplicate of LG or RC in the final 2 sections. I was unlucky enough to have sections 2, 3, and 4 all being LR, which made it impossible to know which (of 2 and 3) was experimental.
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- Tom Joad
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Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
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LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
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The experimental does not become a real section in future exams.Tiago Splitter wrote:LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
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Tiago Splitter wrote:LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
Some questions from experimental become real questions in a future section, but not the whole section. He still shouldn't have any way of knowing that an experimental section isn't a real section. HTH.
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Are you kidding?hankypanky wrote:The experimental does not become a real section in future exams.Tiago Splitter wrote:LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
Kate Chopin (real in June 2011) says hello. She also showed up as the experimental in September 2009.
http://blueprintprep.com/lsatblog/lsat- ... ing-after/
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I did not say parts are not taken from it. But the whole section does not become a real section on a later exam.Tiago Splitter wrote:Are you kidding?hankypanky wrote:The experimental does not become a real section in future exams.Tiago Splitter wrote:LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
Kate Chopin (real in June 2011) says hello. She also showed up as the experimental in September 2009.
http://blueprintprep.com/lsatblog/lsat- ... ing-after/
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This wouldn't really surprise me all that much. When I took it I had 3 LR's and I had a pretty good hunch which one was the experimental when I was doing it. I could tell because it didn't seem to follow the general trend of easier->harder as much. I certainly wouldn't have the guts to take a nap on that hunch though.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
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Me too. The experimental LR was really easy.KaleidoscopeEyes wrote:This wouldn't really surprise me all that much. When I took it I had 3 LR's and I had a pretty good hunch which one was the experimental when I was doing it. I could tell because it didn't seem to follow the general trend of easier->harder as much. I certainly wouldn't have the guts to take a nap on that hunch though.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
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The only way to conclusively determine which is the exp is to look at the last two sections and if one is RC or LG and one of the first three is the same, then the first is exp.Tom Joad wrote:Anybody remember a poster that said he is such a master of the LSAT that when he hit his experimental section he would know which one it is by the wordings of the questions. Then he would just ignore that section and take a cat nap.
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It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.
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suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.

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Sarcasm?LSAT Blog wrote:suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.
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Suspicious android does not compute humor, fails at trolling.suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.
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With the use of the terms "intuition" and "self-confidence," this felt a bit like a Logical Reasoning stimulus.Jack Smirks wrote:Suspicious android does not compute humor, fails at trolling.suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.
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With the use of the word "if," this really felt like an LR stimulusLSAT Blog wrote:With the use of the terms "intuition" and "self-confidence," this felt a bit like a Logical Reasoning stimulus.Jack Smirks wrote:Suspicious android does not compute humor, fails at trolling.suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.
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BRB, lol-ing forever.LSAT Blog wrote:suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.




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Please don't bring up that beyotch. I am only here to talk about expanding ocean crust and magnetic polarity.Tiago Splitter wrote:Kate Chopin (real in June 2011) says hello. She also showed up as the experimental in September 2009.
http://blueprintprep.com/lsatblog/lsat- ... ing-after/
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Why all the hate for Kate?Tom Joad wrote:Please don't bring up that beyotch. I am only here to talk about expanding ocean crust and magnetic polarity.
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crumpetsandtea wrote:BRB, lol-ing forever.LSAT Blog wrote:suspicious android wrote:It's really, really easy to tell which section is experimental, they just have a different feel. After all, they are "experimental". So on test day, if you feel that a question is weird, just put down your pencil and relax for the next half hour. If you don't follow your intuition, you don't have self-confidence, and lacking self-confidence is a killer on the LSAT.![]()
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Because it was the most confusing RC passage I had ever read, maybe with the exception of the Native American on on the same test.gogogadgetlaw wrote:Why all the hate for Kate?Tom Joad wrote:Please don't bring up that beyotch. I am only here to talk about expanding ocean crust and magnetic polarity.
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