Hey 7Sagers,
Here's the official January 2019 LSAT Discussion Thread.
**Please keep all discussions of the January 2019 LSAT here!**(/red)
Rules:
✅ You can identify experimental sections. 🙆♀️
You can say things such as the following:
“I had two LGs! Was the LG with "flowers" real or experimental?” “I had two RCs! Was the section that starts with the honeybee passage real?”“I had three LRs! Does anyone know if the first LR section with the goose question is real?” ❌ You can't discuss specific questions. 🙅♂️
You CANNOT say things such as the following:
“Hey, the 3rd LG was sequencing and the last one was In/Out, right?” (Don't mention the game type)“The last question in the first LR section was a lawgic heavy MBT! Was the answer (B)?” (Don't mention the question type or ask what the answer was)“What was the answer for the last question of RC? I think it was an inference question? Was the answer (C)?” (Don't mention the question type or ask what the answer was)Have fun discussing!
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I'm going to keep posting on this site excessively as support for the stress of waiting for test results. Can't wait.
Anyone who just took the international test? I was wondering which LG is experimental. The one with the weird production game at the end or the pet owner one? Thanks.
We’re done!
@edlavado427 said:
Yes, one LR had 26 questions. The other had 25.
I'm so disappointed that the bank game was real.
Same, the other was like all the game sections I have ever done. Games is my strongest section but all these games felt so weird, especially compared to the other set. I felt like they were all somewhat complicated, compared to the first one where the first is usually a freebie and so on. Super upsetting
I found LG to be incredibly challenging. It's not my best section but I still found it much harder than normal.
@sako752 said:
Did anyone find the LG extremely hard or was my brain just fried by then?
Anyone think the LR's were easy?
@kelilliework244 said:
@cuij2344 said:
@edlavado427 said:
Yes, one LR had 26 questions. The other had 25.
I'm so disappointed that the bank game was real.
Same, the other was like all the game sections I have ever done. Games is my strongest section but all these games felt so weird, especially compared to the other set. I felt like they were all somewhat complicated, compared to the first one where the first is usually a freebie and so on. Super upsetting
Same here, I thought I did okay on the other set of games, but the set with the bank game, I had no idea what I was doing.
Games is also my strongest and I was hoping the bank one wasn't real bc in that section I literally got to maybe #13 before I ran out of time. All the games seemed more difficult compared to the usual exams...uuuggh so stressed right now.
The real lg was the one that had the east and west with investments, etc and it also had the one with the 6 levels. I had two reading comp sections on mine.
When can we start getting results? My nerves are killing me
@chillout34320 said:
@lusp7949545 said:
@chillout34320 said:
Everyone say the test was hard so we can get a -15 curve
Is there precedent for this?
I wouldn't be suprised if the makers of LSAT got online and studied the comments about the test. It happens in school and judging by how rudimentry/ghetto the testing centers were it would not suprise me if they did this instead of using actual statistics about the test to find the curve.
I'm pretty sure the curve is predetermined, like they design the test as being a "-11" or "-12" test before hand during the process (aka its a -10 test regardless of how people do). Costs about a million dollars to make one test so they put A LOT of research into each curve. This is what i've heard from others so i'm not 100%
Why is everyone saying LR was hard? I thought they were the easiest LR's I have taken.. now I'm starting to think I'm just overconfident about it.
Everyone say the test was hard so we can get a -15 curve
@sshen2988341 said:
I had LR RC LR LR LG, I found the second LR to be the hardest but can't remember if it had 25 or 26 questions. If anyone remember the first questions on the real LRs that would be very helpful!
I had the same setup, and the second LR had 26 questions, like the first LR. Really really hoping that second LR was experimental cause oof that one was rough
Anyone feel this LG was so hard? I have been consistently getting -0 or -1 on LG for the past 20 PTs but I think for the LG today I might get -3 or even worse. With that being said, I do think the LRs were a bit easier than those in pt 85 and 86.
Is it normal to feel like you have a migraine afterwards? 😂
There was a question in LR related to an animal that grew in size after a noisy industry machine left? Anyone else remember?
I messed up on the reading comprhension because the proctor started the test so fast after the directions and then I started on question 7 because my seal got stuck to the page. She was easily 400 pounds.
RC passages (i don’t remember the order)
Theatre and national identity (comparative passage)
Placebo research - Kaptnuk
Law passage- Trademark and copyright
I forget the fourth one!
Averaged a 161 on pt got a 155 was my first time taking. WTF
does anyone think that the projected -11 curve (from powerscore) for this LSAT is too low? I also wrote the NOV lsat and this one felt without question harder.
I had LR RC LR LR LG. My thoughts: Do these sections typically get placed in the same order as other people's? If so, anyone know which one was experimental. Because I had a rough go at the first LR and the 2nd and 3rd seemed to go great. LG was different than normal. No incredibly easy games and no incredibly hard ones. I'd guess I went -3 or -4, a couple lower than my average. I'm not sure why the bank one gave so many people issues though... RC was rough for me but hoping it turns out okay. The comparative passage took me forever at the beginning. Also, should I file a complaint with LSAC regarding my proctor? Someone had the same picture as their ID on their admission ticket and got turned away. They delayed the test 30 minutes so she could go home and make it back. It was close to an hour from taking our seats before instructions began. And they still wouldn't make an exception for taking a pee. If you're going to delay things half an hour for someone who didn't follow instrucitons let me go to the restroom, right?
It might sound weird but did anyone think of the real LG games today being similar or close to any of the other previous LG games in the preps? I’m probably going to take the exam again in March and I know that I completely messed up the LG section and now I do not even really remember what the games were like, the only thing I remember was me being like what 🤦🏻♀️
So, would anyone have any suggestions as to what Preptests should I look into in order to work on the types of games that were similar in today’s LG?
I had LR (26Q) RC LR (26Q) LR(25Q) LG
I thought the 25Q LR section was the easiest, and the 2nd LR with 26Q was the hardest.
I'm not sure if anyone else felt this way, but the first LR section with 26Q really felt like a lot of the questions were in past LSAC Preptests.. I've done PTs 42-74 and it almost felt like they had stuck a whole LR section from a past PT somewhere in that range in. It was actually pretty distracting, to be honest.
@nessak130467 said:
@jwilkers110 said:
There was a question in LR related to an animal that grew in size after a noisy industry machine left? Anyone else remember?
Yup I remember that question VERY well. It was about the notion of porpoise population decrease, and human activity/noise in a harbor or channel or something.
From what I remember the q asked you to explain a paradox - the population was supposed to decrease (?) and the paradox was it actually increased. Something along those lines
@faddy878441 said:
@kelilliework244 said:
@cuij2344 said:
@edlavado427 said:
Yes, one LR had 26 questions. The other had 25.
I'm so disappointed that the bank game was real.
Same, the other was like all the game sections I have ever done. Games is my strongest section but all these games felt so weird, especially compared to the other set. I felt like they were all somewhat complicated, compared to the first one where the first is usually a freebie and so on. Super upsetting
Same here, I thought I did okay on the other set of games, but the set with the bank game, I had no idea what I was doing.
Games is also my strongest and I was hoping the bank one wasn't real bc in that section I literally got to maybe #13 before I ran out of time. All the games seemed more difficult compared to the usual exams...uuuggh so stressed right now.
It literally makes no sense!!! The game set that was apparently experimental was the one that resembled how most games set look. I’ve done all the games from test 50-86 so I was so used to that structure. In the bank set, i felt it was difficult from the beginning