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What are the hardest reading comprehension passages you guys have come across? I'm trying to put a comprehensive list of the top 10 or so. I would also like to classify them by hardest Reading Comprehension for all of the 4 categories (humanities, science, law, social science). The 10 hardest passages I've ever come across were:

Science: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Math passages
- Maize Corn (PT 49)
- Riddled Basins of Attraction (PT 50)
- Brain Recognition of Carbohydrate Consumption (PT 12)

Social Science: Political Science, Economics, Communication, Linguistics, and Philosophy passages
- Risk-Taking in International Relations (PT 37)
- Ronald Dworkin and Legal Positivism vs Morality (PT 35)
- Hippocratic Oath (PT 45)
- Code Switching among Puerto Rican Americans (PT 43)

Humanities: Literature, Visual Art, Performing Art, and Architecture passages
- Maxine Kingston and the Chinese Talk-Story (PT 55)
- Willa Cather (PT 57)

Law passages
- Gray Marketing (PT8)

$^%#ing Chinese talk story bullshit.....

thanks any more?.

FU#! Willa Cather!!!!! (June 09)

Willa Cather, in addition to a scantron bubbling error, single handedly destroyed my June 2009 LSAT score.

Needless to say I will never be reading anything written by Willa Cather...

Riddled Basins. Maybe Chinese Talk Story too.

i thought the hippocratic oath one was pretty hard.

pre-law wrote:What are the hardest reading comprehension passages you guys have come across? I'm trying to put a comprehensive list of the top 10 or so. I would also like to classify them by hardest Reading Comprehension for all of the 4 categories (humanities, science, law, social science). The 10 hardest passages I've ever come across were:

Science: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Math passages
- Maize Corn (PT 49)
- Riddled Basins of Attraction (PT 50)
- Brain Recognition of Carbohydrate Consumption (PT 12)

Social Science: Political Science, Economics, Communication, Linguistics, and Philosophy passages
- Risk-Taking in International Relations (PT 37)
- Ronald Dworkin and Legal Positivism vs Morality (PT 35)
- Hippocratic Oath (PT 45)
- Code Switching among Puerto Rican Americans (PT 43)

Humanities: Literature, Visual Art, Performing Art, and Architecture passages
- Maxine Kingston and the Chinese Talk-Story (PT 55)
- Willa Cather (PT 57)

Law passages
- Gray Marketing (PT8)

So....so far everyone has mentioned reading comprehension passages that have all been listed among my initial list of 10 toughest passages except for 1 passage. Are there any other passages out there you all thought was one of the toughest passages you've ever done?

Mel Zelaya wrote:Finnegans Wake

Which preptest was this passage in?

Mel Zelaya wrote:Finnegans Wake

I'm sorry but Ulysses ftmfl

The one about African women and the way they write or something like that.
Female African American writers and how'd they go about intertwining femininst ideologies into their writing grabbing elements from their traditional tribes from africa and their experiences with the western world.

it was a terrible read.
I just wanted to take a sledge hammer and go break some car windows while reading it and answering the questions

Code switching among peurto ricans was hard too. I see you put that up there. I didn't think reading it was that dense or challenging but the questions were quite difficult

There was one about "group think" or something that I found particularly difficult... can't remember the PT

the cakewalk

lawduder wrote:There was one about "group think" or something that I found particularly difficult... can't remember the PT

i think it's the same as cakewalk. 54, i think.

For some reason the RC from section 12 was altogether easier for me than most RC sections are. I finished at the 27 minute mark and got two questions wrong (neither of which were in the carbohydrate section, though I do admit I had to spend a lot of time reviewing the carb passage to make sure I was fully understanding everything). RC is traditionally my worst section, but I think I might be getting the hang of it.

The Hippocratic Oath was tough. I thought I nailed it, then I reviewed my answers and I got 2/8 right. I missed the whole tone of the passage which caused the wrong answers. ITs still confusing.

Chinese Talk Story fucked me over in Oct '08 - it was just unexpectedly boring.

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Revised PT 20, comparative reading screws me all the time (I took it twice already).

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Dworkin. I didn't understand a single word of that passage.

And I read Ulysses .

bouakedojo wrote:

TheLuckyOne wrote:Revised PT 20, comparative reading screws me all the time (I took it twice already).

What is this PT 20 comparative passage you speak of?

Law. I can't remember exactly, wanted to provide you with the link to the test (it was free on LSAC's website), but it's not there anymore. Weird That's the only one I've found, and it's not revised (http://www.lsac.org/pdfs/test.pdf).

If you want to, I can send you one.