Old RC, are the passages much easier than current PTs? Forum

sarahsala · Post by **sarahsala** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:20 am

Hi,

So I have heard old LG are difficult, LR, not much difference, RC questions can be easy, but what about the passages? Are there any differences in difficulty in the passages? As the questions, old passages are easier as well?

Thanks,

Generally · Post by **Generally** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:35 pm

Post removed.

sarahsala · Post by **sarahsala** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:52 pm

Generally wrote:All of this is subjective. Some people think the exact opposite of what you posted in terms of what was easier or more difficult. I think old reading passages were a bit easier to get a grasp on, and they didn't have the parallel reading passage sections, which could add to confusion. Just practice from old to new by test time and you will be fine.

Thanks for your reply

benwyatt · Post by **benwyatt** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:17 pm

Post removed.

sarahsala · Post by **sarahsala** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:40 pm

benwyatt wrote:I'll echo the General here: "easier" will always be subjective.
That said, any LSAT format stuff is going to make for valuable practice, but be sure to save several of the more recent tests for the weeks right before your test date so that you can practice on questions more similar to the ones you'll see then.

Okay, thanks

jasmine138 · Post by **jasmine138** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:12 am

I agree that the answer to this question may be different for everyone, but I certainly find the old RC easier. Not necessarily in the difficulty of the passages, but in the questions definitely. For old RC questions, I find that the right answer is pretty obvious and right in the passage, whereas the RC question from PT 50 onwards tend to be a lot more convoluted and harder to parse.

sarahsala · Post by **sarahsala** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 11:38 am

jasmine138 wrote:I agree that the answer to this question may be different for everyone, but I certainly find the old RC easier. Not necessarily in the difficulty of the passages, but in the questions definitely. For old RC questions, I find that the right answer is pretty obvious and right in the passage, whereas the RC question from PT 50 onwards tend to be a lot more convoluted and harder to parse.

What about the content?
I see LR covers similar subjects and I know RC includes law, Social science, natural science and humanity, but do they kind of talk about the same thing?
In LR for example, they often talk about car conjunction, health issue regarding fat, government policy etc etc...
Does this happen in RC as well?

jasmine138 · Post by **jasmine138** » Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:12 am

sarahsala wrote:
jasmine138 wrote:I agree that the answer to this question may be different for everyone, but I certainly find the old RC easier. Not necessarily in the difficulty of the passages, but in the questions definitely. For old RC questions, I find that the right answer is pretty obvious and right in the passage, whereas the RC question from PT 50 onwards tend to be a lot more convoluted and harder to parse.
What about the content?
I see LR covers similar subjects and I know RC includes law, Social science, natural science and humanity, but do they kind of talk about the same thing?
In LR for example, they often talk about car conjunction, health issue regarding fat, government policy etc etc...
Does this happen in RC as well?

Well speaking from my experience from doing RC from PT 1-20 and 50 onwards, I find that the topics aren't very different nor is the difficulty of passages greater in newer tests (with a couple exceptions). It's just that the questions have become a lot harder, with the answer choices more convoluted and a lot more inference-driven answers rather than straight-out-of-the-book, direct reference ones.