Dec '11 Curve Poll Forum

keyanaut · Post by **keyanaut** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:00 pm

Haven't seen it posted... what do you think the magic number is?

Mauve Dinosaur · Post by **Mauve Dinosaur** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:14 pm

It's gonna be the first ever -6.

sdphil · Post by **sdphil** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:15 pm

Mauve Dinosaur wrote:It's gonna be the first ever -6.

I would probably cry

keyanaut · Post by **keyanaut** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:17 pm

sdphil wrote:
Mauve Dinosaur wrote:It's gonna be the first ever -6.
I would probably cry

i am crying

Mauve Dinosaur · Post by **Mauve Dinosaur** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:27 pm

Whoops, meant -16

john1990 · Post by **john1990** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:29 pm

This poll is a part of the waiting thread

noleknight16 · Post by **noleknight16** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:30 pm

Gonna be -12. -10 if RC was average... but the difficulty pushed it up to -12

RCinDNA · Post by **RCinDNA** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:34 pm

Mauve Dinosaur wrote:It's gonna be the first ever -6.

I wouldn't be surprised. It felt like the test makers were trying to get a hard curve. Some of the questions were obtuse. I guessed -14 in the other thread to account for the RC and one of the LGs.

Deuce85 · Post by **Deuce85** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:53 pm

Probably a dumb question but how does the curve work on the lsat?

RCinDNA · Post by **RCinDNA** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:59 pm

Deuce85 wrote:Probably a dumb question but how does the curve work on the lsat?

It's not really a 'curve' per se. It has more to do with test equating. But we throw the term around to represent the amount of questions you can get wrong and still get a 170 and thus score in the 98th percentile.

TheWatch · Post by **TheWatch** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:04 pm

180asBreath · Post by **180asBreath** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:52 pm

A 16 is as likely as a -9 or -10.

KevinP · Post by **KevinP** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:58 pm

The LSAT isn't curved. Here's a video from one of the senior test developers at LSAC talking about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... k&t=13m10s

RCinDNA wrote:
Deuce85 wrote:Probably a dumb question but how does the curve work on the lsat?
It's not really a 'curve' per se. It has more to do with test equating. But we throw the term around to represent the amount of questions you can get wrong and still get a 170 and thus score in the 98th percentile.

170 is no longer the 98th percentile. 170 is the 97th now (97.3 to be exact).

KDLMaj · Post by **KDLMaj** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:00 pm

Just for what it's worth- the LSAT's scaled score isn't done on a curve. It's done by equalizing. The thresholds for each scaled score point are determined in advance- it's only the percentile rank that's done on a curve.

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