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

It's gonna be the first ever -6.

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

I would probably cry

sdphil wrote:

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

I would probably cry

i am crying

Whoops, meant -16

This poll is a part of the waiting thread

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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.