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Is this true?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:37 pm
by heyhowdyhey
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?
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:38 pm
by bport hopeful
Yes.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:14 am
by SanDiegoJake
Yes.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:15 am
by Tom Joad
Pray you have an experimental LG section instead of LR or RC.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:16 am
by kaiser
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.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:17 am
by Tom Joad
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.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:37 pm
by Tiago Splitter
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.
LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:40 pm
by hankypanky
Tiago Splitter wrote: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.
LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.
The experimental does not become a real section in future exams.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:51 pm
by chrisbru
Tiago Splitter wrote: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.
LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.
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.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:51 pm
by Tiago Splitter
hankypanky wrote:Tiago Splitter wrote: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.
LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.
The experimental does not become a real section in future exams.
Are you kidding?
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/
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:53 pm
by hankypanky
Tiago Splitter wrote:hankypanky wrote:Tiago Splitter wrote: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.
LOL. Since the experimental will one day be a real section, this guy was obviously lying or an idiot.
The experimental does not become a real section in future exams.
Are you kidding?
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/
I did not say parts are not taken from it. But the whole section does not become a real section on a later exam.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:02 pm
by KaleidoscopeEyes
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.
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.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:03 pm
by hankypanky
KaleidoscopeEyes wrote: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.
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.
Me too. The experimental LR was really easy.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:10 pm
by JamMasterJ
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.
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.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:56 pm
by suspicious android
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.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:02 pm
by LSAT Blog
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.

Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:03 pm
by JamMasterJ
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.

Sarcasm?
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:03 pm
by Jack Smirks
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.
Suspicious android does not compute humor, fails at trolling.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:05 pm
by LSAT Blog
Jack Smirks 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.
Suspicious android does not compute humor, fails at trolling.
With the use of the terms "intuition" and "self-confidence," this felt a bit like a Logical Reasoning stimulus.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:07 pm
by JamMasterJ
LSAT Blog wrote:Jack Smirks 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.
Suspicious android does not compute humor, fails at trolling.
With the use of the terms "intuition" and "self-confidence," this felt a bit like a Logical Reasoning stimulus.
With the use of the word "if," this really felt like an LR stimulus
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:10 pm
by crumpetsandtea
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:29 pm
by Tom Joad
Please don't bring up that beyotch. I am only here to talk about expanding ocean crust and magnetic polarity.
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:55 pm
by gogogadgetlaw
Tom Joad wrote:Please don't bring up that beyotch. I am only here to talk about expanding ocean crust and magnetic polarity.
Why all the hate for Kate?
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:59 pm
by tmon
Re: Is this true?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:42 pm
by Tom Joad
gogogadgetlaw wrote:Tom Joad wrote:Please don't bring up that beyotch. I am only here to talk about expanding ocean crust and magnetic polarity.
Why all the hate for Kate?
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.