Why did lg become easier? Forum

[ltowns1]

I'm doin some of the early, early games...and good lord do they not make any sense to me lol. I'm just curious, does anyone know why the games became easier, over the years? aside from the fact that rc got harder from the perspective of many.

[Skool]

Educated guesser here:

Maybe they were too hard, such that they didn't properly stratify test takers?

If a competent test taker and an incompetent test taker both face an impossibly difficult LG, and they both get it wrong because the question is so hard, you don't have the data on the relative strengths of the test taker.

The opposite problem is a test too easy. If a competent taker and an incompetent taker both get a super easy question correct, you haven't gained any relevant data to distinguish between both.

I literally just guessed this based on the little I know about the thought process of test designers.

[Louis1127]

Ha ha, I hope you watched the Alcazar youtube, it's classic disco at its finest and also hilarious! It grows on you if you don't like the song first listen.

RE: 40's range PrepTests

Some of the easiest of all time LG sections appeared in the mid to late 40's and early 50's range. Some of the harshest of all time raw to scaled score conversion charts also occurred during that time period. Plus the RC section change occurred as well as there being a brief period LSAC tried out a new writing sample prompt type and was seriously considering making it a graded portion of the exam.

During those several years mass hysteria occurred among students in the rumor mills. (especially in threads here and on other LSAT/LS related discussion forums)

Many people were convinced that hard LG's were a thing of the past never to be seen again on a future test because of the short lived trend, made the mistake of not adequately preparing for harder games and then got punished on test day. Many people obsessing about 'what is the curve going to be?' were convinced that the days of being able to miss 10 or more to score 170 were gone forever. Of course they were proven wrong as well.

That is the type of stuff I was referring to.

The "What are students freaking out and stressing out the most about this year?" chatter changed to "If I'm not sure I'm ready to take it by the deadlines, what is better/worse for admission chances, having an absent or a cancellation on my record?" for roughly the last two years because of the deadline changes LSAC made ~2 years ago that locked people into having something show up on their CAS score report if they didn't withdraw or postpone their test date registration 3 weeks before test day.

Thank god that is now no longer an issue as of the deadline change LSAC announced yesterday and published on their website today.

Now students can get back to mainly stressing out about whether or not they are adequately prepared for the test since those and other issues outside of their control hopefully have been put to rest.