Hey guys! Here's the official Feb. LSAT Discussion Thread. Please keep all discussions of the Feb. 2017 LSAT here!
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We know that everyone will be excited to discuss what was on the Feb. '17 LSAT, but mentioning specifics about the test (e.g., "I got B for question 6" or "the 3rd LG was sequencing") can get both us and you in a lot of trouble with LSAC. Saying that the test was hard/easy without going into detail is okay, but anything more specific is not okay. LSAC monitors this forum.
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That dope ass moment when you're Indian, Hindu and have a penchant for reading Tagore on your leisure time. Tagore's passage was such a breeze! YAS. This was my last take and I'm proud to say it was my best test yet! THANK YOU 7SAGE AND JY. SO MUCH LOVE FOR YOU ALL.
Oh wow @mohsennh247 that news makes me so sad, it was my 5th section and I usually do so good at games but I bombed it. I've been sick for awhile and was happy with my performance until that last games section.
I had two LR sections (experimental RC, ugh) and here are some questions I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Company owner's plan doesn't deserve criticism because previous owner put them in debt
Someone being hired with lots of experience might not be great because some other guy with experience was bad before
Study with people randomly assigned to wear formal/business attire
Study with middle aged coffee drinkers and high blood pressure or cholesterol or something?
Countries that expect crappy economic conditions can deal with economic instability better?
Mystery novel private investigates are lone wolves/go against bureaucracy
Vehicle emissions 1967-90 and smog
Economics of govt sending letters across the country/connecting people
Politician who's a skilled writer makes a speech
Small earth, plate tectonics, can't sustain life
Hopefully this helps someone! :)
I only had one game section and the one with the gold and silver was in it (so def not experimental)
This gif ecapsulates my feelings as I hit RC #4 with 7 mins left ... and also my thoughts standing around during the 15 min break right after. Fun times everyone!
http://i.imgur.com/nmfHmPq.gif
I bombed the games. I had no freaking clue how to set up that 12 camp sequencing one. I was like wtf what is this omg JY what do I do
@jcorine26116 said:
I had two LR sections (experimental RC, ugh) and here are some questions I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Company owner's plan doesn't deserve criticism because previous owner put them in debt
Someone being hired with lots of experience might not be great because some other guy with experience was bad before
Study with people randomly assigned to wear formal/business attire
Study with middle aged coffee drinkers and high blood pressure or cholesterol or something?
Countries that expect crappy economic conditions can deal with economic instability better?
Mystery novel private investigates are lone wolves/go against bureaucracy
Vehicle emissions 1967-90 and smog
Economics of govt sending letters across the country/connecting people
Politician who's a skilled writer makes a speech
Small earth, plate tectonics, can't sustain life
Hopefully this helps someone! :)
I had all of those. (I had LG experimental).
The last section (logic games) was brutal. I was hoping it would be earlier in the section but I was already wiped out from everything else. I think I did fairly well with everything but the logic game (particularly about the 12 week game) was so tough. I only finished 2 games and guessed on everything else
Did anybody think the Hindu/Roman reading comp passage was overly difficult? I had one of WTF moments after reading about the Hindu stuff. I was hoping that was experimental. Sigh.
fear von Frisch
Does anyone remember the first game??? Its driving me crazy that I can't remember it.
Ya idk if it's because of my incompetency but that was brutal; I only got to finish 2 games :(
@515, yeah, I had it as my last section and it seemed brutal considering how tiring the test was...
I had two 3 LR sections, 1 LG and 1 RC. Logic Games was last. I was feeling optimistic about the test until I came across LG. I completely bombed that section. It was horrid.
Ok is it normal to have complete and utter amnesia after the test?! I didn't have this last time but I'm reading these comments that it was 102 questions and I'm like did I have 26 bubbled answers or 23 or 22 or 21...did I misbubble or....... did I miss an entire page? I can't remember??????? LOL I felt decently okay about the test right after and each hour that's passed my anxiety has strengthened, and strengthened -_- IS THIS NORMAL?!!!!?!?!?!?
@515 I didn't have any experimental LR and I can confirm that city hall/ugly architecture, astronomers believe the universe is expanding, pessimistic employees harm or aid success, books are better than movies, seasonal affective disorder, and pesticides/bird/fish population were real!
I don't remember any of the others but my brain is also currently mush so don't take my word for it!
Could anyone that did not have experimental LR please comment on the following:
-city hall/ugly architecure
-chimpanzee and leaf eating
-Astronomers believe the universe is expanding
-grandfather/father rewards for eating vegetables
-pessimistic employees harm or aid success
-books are better than movies
-some music is art
-seasonal affect disorder
-pesticides/ bird/fish population
-suspects to crime and the right to defense
@eepoon831 said:
@abarna475 I can tell you what's gonna put me down. . .LG. I choked. . .again!
I felt like the LG wasnt too bad, they didnt throw anything new.. I was drained going into it as my 5th section. But if was earlier I think it would have been a bit easier...
@abarna475 I can tell you what's gonna put me down. . .LG. I choked. . .again!
Does anyone think this LSAT will have a big curve? Predictions on what gets you a 160 and above?
Just confirming for everyone: the gold plates and 1-6/7-12 questions were NOT experimental. The LR had 26 each with the coffe question, bicyclists, meteors, etc. I found LR to be the easiest ...which was a shocker because LG is my best and LR my weakest but it totally switched on me today!!!
The reading comp involved the bees, Romans, and such. This was the one that is NOT experimental.
Good luck to all of you, I definitely feel like the reading comp was difficult (the bees sucked) and the logic games were tough not because they were unique but because the difficult was just so evenly spread out.
Hope u guys all did it.
I finished LR but for RC and LG I guessed 6 questions each. The ones that I DID do I'm confident in and I'm hoping I guessed atleast one or two right haha.
Have a little faith!
I can't remember my first game either but I don't recall it being about delivery. All I can remember is it was a 6 piece sequence. Had T-N P-S. L before M. N couldn't be between SM. If this is too detail please let me know. Obviously I paid more attention to the rules than the subject matter.
@515 Thank you so much. I could remember all of the inferences, all of the pieces, all of the boards, but not a single thing about the context.
@vlj1994980 That sounds right. Def 2 and 3, mostly certain that you have the right order.
I had two LG sections. The prior comments seem to have nailed it to me. I don't remember a French/Russian game at all though.
I went LG LR RC LG LR. I felt great getting the LG section up front, but had a mixed feeling when my first section after break was also LG. I felt like the Gold/Silver section was easier than the camp scheduling section.
I am by no means a games master, but on the gold/silver game, I had a fairly late inference that made everything click. So, I either completely bombed it (a possibility) or completely nailed it (also a possibility). I had that "uh oh" feeling on the camp game, but it went away quickly as I went through the rules.
RC: The Hindu/Roman passage, I had a hard time figuring out the point of the Hindu part. Section three is also where I start to glaze over a bit. I don't remember much of that section.
LR: I remember, ravens going after worms, children with beakers, super nova with king, meteors and bringing life??, plate tectonics and and size of the planet, and those are all that are coming to me.
No timing issues. I finished every section with at least 3 minutes to spare, finished the Gold/Silver section right when they called 5mins, so I double checked that section. I felt bad about the writing sample since my hand writing is so poor. I have no completed a paper by hand in at least twelve years, and nearly everything paper related at work is digital.
Overall, I felt really good about this test...but like what I said earlier, that means I either did great or horrible. It felt like everything clicked.
Testing Center seemed like a good choice. I took it at a community college. No one was constantly coughing or sneezing. Several people were told a few times that they couldn't drink in between sections. One person was kicked out after being warned a few times about his phone-it was put away, but you could hear it vibrate throughout the test (I forget which section they booted him during). Several people brought back packs that were stowed in the front of the room. Report no later than 830AM and we finished up the writing sample at right about 1PM.
I think my test day protocol worked out well even though I made a last second tweak. I had HALF of my morning caffeine, B-Vitamin Complex, and Vitamin D mixture at waking and the other half mixed with 8 oz of water during the break. I was nervous about having to use the restroom during the test. I vape, so since I knew I had at least 3-4hrs before I could get any nicotine, I wore a Nicoderm CQ patch (the low dose 7mg) ones. When I did 5 section tests, I had a tendency to get easily frustrated once I hit section 3-4. No issues with this time. I felt like my work advancement test routine kicked in as soon as I woke up. I woke up just before my alarm, feeling wide awake. The difference though, was that I was actually excited to take the LSAT where as on advancement test day, I'm just trying to get it over with.
@cooperjamie55913 said:
Did anybody think the Hindu/Roman reading comp passage was overly difficult? I had one of WTF moments after reading about the Hindu stuff. I was hoping that was experimental. Sigh.
I definitely thought that was difficult. Patriotism vs family loyalty or something. I couldn't follow the Indian part.