So How Was It? Hard? Harder? Just what you expected? Forum

[BlackadderIn]

Honestly I thought the LG was easy, for me, it was 1 very tough RC passage and very ambiguous LR. LR in my opinion was not the type of LR seen on the vast majority of other tests.

Did you also have two RC and found one of them hard?

[Paraflam]

HOLY GAME SPACE

[Shasha Dew Dew]

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[tlink1990]

LG was super stereotypical and, for me, super easy. I believe it was the best I have ever done and probably got 1-3 wrong max. There was a 2nd LG (and CRAZY DIFFICULT) for me that had to be the experimental section. The questions were not that different from what you normally see, but the given information seemed MUCH less helpful and it was like there was a much wider gap of information to be filled in. As for RC/LR, I have done 90% of the available tests and would put this at the top of most difficult. The first 10 for me in LR are always very obvious and at most I might miss 1, this time I felt like I was struggling from the get-go. I always suck at RC, but it didn't see much different, just harder to get through.

Pretty sure the second LG was real if you had LR-LG-RC-LR-LG.

I understand what a lot of people's logic here is. I heard some people saying that the experimental section is typically in the first 3. I thought to my self, yeah, that's because statistically it has a greater chance to be -_- (60% vs 40%) However, there is absolutely no way. Out of the 30-40 tests I've taken, the first LG was just like all of the others and the second was the definition of "experimental".

Individuals who took the test and had only one LG have confirmed that the first LG was experimental.

The only reason why I think this is wrong is based on the number of questions. The first LG for me was 27, while the other was 23. But, for it to be mathematically correct, it would have to be the 27 one

[Alex071791]

Hardest game section I have ever seen IMO since the early 90s, including June 2009 (Dinosaur Game). Am I among the majority here? I had to guess on around 7 questions (here's hoping for D!). But then again, I breezed through both LRs and the RC, finishing with just under 5 minutes left on all of them. I guess that's how they repay us for tanking the majority of our LG scores?

[Wily]

Hardest game section I have ever seen IMO since the early 90s, including June 2009 (Dinosaur Game). Am I among the majority here? I had to guess on around 7 questions (here's hoping for D!). But then again, I breezed through both LRs and the RC, finishing with just under 5 minutes left on all of them. I guess that's how they repay us for tanking the majority of our LG scores?

No way. Was this your first time taking the real thing? That may be affecting your evaluation of the difficulty. I've taken it three times this year and I found the games section much easier than usual.

[Rehmsmeyer]

Hardest game section I have ever seen IMO since the early 90s, including June 2009 (Dinosaur Game). Am I among the majority here? I had to guess on around 7 questions (here's hoping for D!). But then again, I breezed through both LRs and the RC, finishing with just under 5 minutes left on all of them. I guess that's how they repay us for tanking the majority of our LG scores?

No way. Was this your first time taking the real thing? That may be affecting your evaluation of the difficulty. I've taken it three times this year and I found the games section much easier than usual.

Wily, did your games seem to be much different than what you have seen in the past, or typical?

[bdm261]

A side question: on one of the LR questions I decided to change my answer a few seconds before the section ended. I was able to darken an oval before time was called but I didn't have the chance to erase my previous mark. Tempting as it was, I resisted the urge to erase the old mark even though I was sure I could have gotten away with it. The second oval I filled in though was kind of just half filled because they called time just as I was filling it and then I stopped and put my pencil down. So how will that question be scored? Will they disqualify that response or score the oval that's more filled than the other?

[Alex071791]

Well I had the LGX as well, which was very easy and posed me no problems, so it wasn't the testing environment that made it difficult for me. I also can't imagine that many people thought the games were easy considering that I am SURE the LR and RC were easier than normal, meaning I think you might have just been in the zone Wily (especially considering the rest of this thread's reaction the games).

[Wily]

Hardest game section I have ever seen IMO since the early 90s, including June 2009 (Dinosaur Game). Am I among the majority here? I had to guess on around 7 questions (here's hoping for D!). But then again, I breezed through both LRs and the RC, finishing with just under 5 minutes left on all of them. I guess that's how they repay us for tanking the majority of our LG scores?

No way. Was this your first time taking the real thing? That may be affecting your evaluation of the difficulty. I've taken it three times this year and I found the games section much easier than usual.

Wily, did your games seem to be much different than what you have seen in the past, or typical?

I felt they my games were easier than October and December 2011, my other two takings, where I got -8 and -5 on LG, respectively. LG has always been my worst section, so to manage to get through it without running out of time means for me that it was "easy," relatively speaking.

[Alex071791]

Take a look at the rest of the board though

Not saying that you didn't do well—just that you did well on a hard section that the rest of us plebs had difficulty with haha

[Wily]

Take a look at the rest of the board though

Not saying that you didn't do well—just that you did well on a hard section that the rest of us plebs had difficulty with haha

Haha, no problems. I think I did well this whole time around (vs. 165 and 168 on my previous two tests). Glad to be done with the LSAT for the rest of my life, can't deny that!

[masticore99]

I had RC RC LR LG LR

1st RC was really hard and the second was easy. The LR's were pretty standard. The LGs were totally unexpected for me.
Only 1 game was particularly concrete w/ conditional questions. I felt like the other 3 required more brute force.

I was PT in the 170-173, and I don't think I'm gonna crack 170 because of LG. *sigh*

[cc.celina]

5 year anniversary since Comparative Reading iirc. Any new twists?

Yes - each LG got two pages. So much space to use I was overwhelmed. And confused when I opened the section.

are you kidding? wtf?

But actually! It COMPLETELY threw me off. I was like, what do I do with all this space? So then I wrote really big and disorganized and it was really hard to use my previous work =/ Luckily LG was my experimental, so I got used to it

[homiedawg]

I had LR, LR, RC, LR, LG. The three LR sections almost in a row made me burned out by time I got to LG. I think my first LR section was the experimental, some weird questions I haven't seen anything similar to on recent PTs.

This was my order as well. I also thought the first LR was the experimental. It seemed harder to me and the other two went super well. I am hoping that was the experimental....

[chup]

Just as a reminder, identifying the TYPES of games (sequence, grouping, &c.) will get you banned.

[Honey_Badger]

One of my games was (IMO) tougher than the other. I didn't mind RC at all.

[NYC2012]

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[jmh]

Did anyone have a test that lasted 7 hours? We started our test at 3:15 Eastern time. they also ran out of chairs in our site so they had to bring in middle school style desks. and they almost had to give one of the students the main copy of the writing prompt because they ran out. this can't be normal!

[patricksouthern]

Reposting this from the other thread:

Tremendously upset right now. I've been consistently PT-ing in the low-to-mid 170s in the past few weeks, and felt very good coming into today. Felt even better at break time, like I had steamrolled my first three sections.

But then ... LG happened. I had the LG experimental as my 2nd section (RC - LG - LR - LG - LR) and had done very well. But the actual one stumped me in a huge way. Not sure what happened. It all seems like a blur. The first game had only five questions and took me far longer than it should have. Plodded through the second game, looked at my watch, had only about 7 minutes left for the last two games. Panic mode. No easy answers in the last two games. Lots of pure guessing. I don't understand what happened. Felt like I watched my test explode in my face.

I honestly don't know how I calmed myself down for Section 5. Took me about 4-5 questions to get out of "Wow, you screwed that up royally" mode and get my head back in the game. Felt pretty good about my performance there. But if I do anything better than -10 on LG, I'll be surprised. And that makes me unbelievably sad.

I prepped like crazy for the last few months. Worked really, really hard. Yeah, I can retake in October, but what am I really going to learn between now and then that I didn't know today? That's really what's got me out of whack. And my GPA is really low (I'm definitely looking to be a super-splitter) so I NEED a high LSAT to get into schools many of you probably wouldn't even want to apply to.

Very depressed right now. Just can't believe that one bad section probably ruined the whole thing for me. Easily my worst LG performance since my diagnostic, and on the worst possible day.

[ManOfTheMinute]

Reposting this from the other thread:

Tremendously upset right now. I've been consistently PT-ing in the low-to-mid 170s in the past few weeks, and felt very good coming into today. Felt even better at break time, like I had steamrolled my first three sections.

But then ... LG happened. I had the LG experimental as my 2nd section (RC - LG - LR - LG - LR) and had done very well. But the actual one stumped me in a huge way. Not sure what happened. It all seems like a blur. The first game had only five questions and took me far longer than it should have. Plodded through the second game, looked at my watch, had only about 7 minutes left for the last two games. Panic mode. No easy answers in the last two games. Lots of pure guessing. I don't understand what happened. Felt like I watched my test explode in my face.

I honestly don't know how I calmed myself down for Section 5. Took me about 4-5 questions to get out of "Wow, you screwed that up royally" mode and get my head back in the game. Felt pretty good about my performance there. But if I do anything better than -10 on LG, I'll be surprised. And that makes me unbelievably sad.

I prepped like crazy for the last few months. Worked really, really hard. Yeah, I can retake in October, but what am I really going to learn between now and then that I didn't know today? That's really what's got me out of whack. And my GPA is really low (I'm definitely looking to be a super-splitter) so I NEED a high LSAT to get into schools many of you probably wouldn't even want to apply to.

Very depressed right now. Just can't believe that one bad section probably ruined the whole thing for me. Easily my worst LG performance since my diagnostic, and on the worst possible day.

If spending 7 minutes on the last two games is not typical, you should cancel you score and retake it. If this really was abnormal because something just didn't 'click,' you do not need learn anything new to do better in October.

[hereyago]

I thought the LR was EASY. Generally LR is my best section though.

There was one question on the RC that I'm dying to discuss.

Agreed. LR was extremely easy.

RC wasn't difficult, but I couldn't focus on any of the passages (blanked out after reading each of the passage) because it was my first section and I was thinking "WTF IS GOING ON"

LG was easy as well.

Definitely a standard June exam with a -8 curve.

[d0rklord]

Are we allowed to say anything about the test yet? Lol. I'd like to clarify which RC was non-exp but... I dont want to get banned!

[sjwest]

Does anyone know which LR was experimental. My sections were ordered as RC LR LR LG LR. Was the last LR experimental or one of the first 2?

I noticed that 2 of the LR sections had 26 questions and the other had 25. If both of the 26 question sections were in, that would make the test 102 questions, so I am pretty sure that one of those 2 are the experimental questions sections. I had the same order as you, and for me, the 25 question section was section 3.

[d0rklord]

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