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Here's the official August 2020 LSAT-Flex Discussion Thread.
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Taking it today and just wanted to say good luck everyone - we are all prepared and have all worked hard for this!!!
Just took the test for the first time. LR was straighforward, nothing crazy with games (3/4 out of 5 difficulty) but RC WAS HARD. Usually my best section so I'm a little bummed...hoping for the best.
To anyone taking this test or a future test for the first time -- CONFIDENCE IS YOUR BEST FRIEND. Study hard, focus during the test, and be confident you will apply your skills on the test itself.
All love (3(/p)
To whoever had the RC of Patriotism and Honeybees back to back with me can I cry on your shoulder. Thank you.
We need to throw a RAGER with JY
LG and LR both felt pretty easy.
RC felt insanely hard to me (had the Wolves v. Dogs and Monopolies passages). It was my last section so I could have just been feeling worn out, but I had to guess on a good number of questions.
I had LG-LR-RC. For LG, I honestly don't remember the theme of G1. G2 was gold and silver items, G3 was gym music piano and sailing schedules (or something else with G M P S items), and G4 was transcribing/recording/preparing interviews. For LR I had a question on free market/government control, and a question on the prices for delivery of the mail. For RC I had liberal environmentalism, judge vs jury trials, Rome and India patriotism comp passage, and honeybee distance sensing. I thought LG was harder than average, and will loosen the curve a bit - felt some timing pressure towards the end, and even the earlier games each had a couple of tough questions. LR felt much easier than normal, as did RC (up until honeybees, which was harder) - those might tighten the curve.
Just took mine Easy Lr hard RC Medium Games.
Honeybees. Killed me.
Shit was wack. Had tech issues to start. Harder than usual LR. Final LG games was just ridiculous. Overall horrible experience.
how do y'all remember so much about test content... I can barely recall taking the damn thing...
Just did mine. It was horrible.
LG is usually my strong section, but this time I did not feel good about it, maybe because I panicked a little bit since it is my first time taking it. Struggled with the third game, but looking back, it should be an easy game, I do not know what happened to me, especially when I had 6 minutes left at the end, I just couldn't figure out one question.
RC was a disaster, had no idea what was going on, almost flagged half the questions.
Finally LR was okay, but wasn't great, flagged a lot of questions as well. I would not say it is easy, it is probably average and I just under-performed.
LR-RC-LG. LR was tough -- got all my answers in but didn't have time to go back and check all of my flags (and feel like i had a lot). RC wasn't terrible but wasn't easy. LG was a breeze. Really not a fan of the Flex format; I was anxious throughout and didn't calm down til halfway through. Feel like a fourth section would've balanced that out. Also let a dude pee, dang.
I am a bit worried about one potential flag: when I finished the test I was looking for my chat window to tell my proctor and swiped over into my calendar app. The test was done, no way I could have copied answers over from the app even if I had tried, and i didn't do anything with it, but am wondering if it will somehow be a violation (even though the proctor took control of my mouse and closed anything he found at issue). I don't think there's any serious reason for LSAC to believe i could have used it to cheat but I've heard of in-person exams getting cancelled because someone pulled out a phone after handing their tablet in.
LG - RC - LR. @petuite788 I was getting worried when I didn't see anyone else have the same sections as me! I thought the RC black hole passage was rough...but then again, this is usually my worst section. I second the games part: I didn't have a ton of time left at the end, but I didn't have to rush through any portion. The last question I knew I wouldn't have time to really flesh out so I guessed, but besides that I only flagged 2 questions so I'm hopeful!
I felt good after taking the test, and now I've talked myself into feeling like I may have done terrible...anyone else?? lol
RC was terrible
Just received my score, it is 167!! Even though it is not a 170+, but I still very happy about my score and the effort that I have put into it. It is where I expected myself to be. Especially considering the fact that when I first started, I didn't even know how to complete any of the logic games and was getting -10s on RC and LR. I took my first LSAT last year in July and came back with 158 and then a 163 in November. I then decided to take a gap year off and studied hard just for this one opportunity. I love seeing the upward progress of my score. It was completely worthy and thank you so much 7sage!!
Took mine today (9/2). My exam sequence was LR-RC-LG.
Reading the past and current comments, I can tell that they definitely mixed and matched sections. So I'm guessing it just depends on luck in terms of what section combos you get.
LR- Usually the bane of my existence type of section lol I average anywhere from -3 to -8/9 or -10 on the particularly tough sections.... however, this LR section I finished with time left, but did flag a number of them. Can't really recall anything since it was my first section but it felt okay? Maybe medium. I do remember there being more PSA questions than normal and like one NA question which took me by surprise (was expecting more NA). Oh, there was also this weird volume question. Thinking about it now, I felt some of the ACs were more vague or tricky so maybe I bombed this section lmao :neutral:
RC- Found this section harder than the other 2 for some reason. Generally okay in RC. Maybe it was just the fatigue hitting me, but I had Indian art, dogs v wolves experiment, super long case, and monopolies. The passages were okay, but I did not like the last two for some reason. Could be the subject matter and just having more questions for those two passages. Felt medium/ hard for me
LG- Eerily easy?? I was expecting a weird misc. game, but turned out fine. I had months, interns, North South paintings, and a car game. The last game was harder for me but I think it was the fatigue talking and just overthinking. Otherwise, probably the easiest section out of the three.
Overall, the proctoru experience was fine for me. Only experienced one mishap where my camera connection went out and the proctor had to intervene, but good thing she exited out of my exam. Definitely would have lost about 3 min. if she didn't do that. No other issues after.
Just finished. I think it went pretty okay. LG-LR-RC. LG was easy, a lot of sequencing games. LR was.... odd. I felt like the questions weren't that difficult but I had a lot flagged and didn't have time to go back and check on them. Maybe that's just me. RC was okay, I did the passages with more questions first and left the first one, with 4 questions about American Indian paintings, for the end -- finished reading and answering the Qs for that one in 5 minutes. For RC I had the monopolies passage and I definitely guessed for a lot of the answers. It was kind of a time sink.
LR was a little above average in difficulty for me (babbling and rare & expensive books). I flagged a good amount to come back to. Like was said above, I also found it a little hard to get in my groove for that section. The LG was even more above average in difficulty for me (I had the silver/gold ware game) and I guessed on most of the last game--while there were some challenging questions in some of the earlier games as well. RC was fairly straightforward for me (I had the wolves vs. dogs questions).
just read all comments. seems like same questions for LG and RC.
RC was difficult for me, but it is my worst section so that could be big factor.
LG was easy .. got stuck on first simple game i think it was nerves but came back to it and realized how simple it was.
LR was okay i guess. Had a lot marked but i think because i wanted to come back if I had time. I would say on harder side for LR but again, I think i didn't find my groove as quick so that could have been it.
LR-LG-RC
overall, not sure lol . If LR went well for me I think i score around my PT.
Literally the same thing as taking PT on lawhub, nothing else so just take it as a PT and don't overthink it. Im ab to not look at lsat shit for at least a week and get v v sauced. good luck to all
@jfpeterkin879 said:
Just took mine Easy Lr hard RC Medium Games.
Just took mine this morning and can second this ^^
Taking it right now, good luck everyone I hope we all hit our goal scores!
Good luck everyone!!
I want to say a big thank you to JY and the rest of the 7Sage staff who helped create this amazing resource. I just got my results back, and scored a 168 - 5 points higher than my PT average. I honestly could not have done it without 7Sage.
Did anyone have the passage about legal theories of ownership. One of the more difficult RC passages in recent memory for me. The other passages, as well as LG and LR, were pretty easy though.
Took the test this morning and my order was RC LG LR. It was decent overall, but a bad RC start definitely threw me off a little bit!!!
LG: Much better than expected - I was really, really scared of a curveball LG (I'm usually -1 max on LG, except when there's a curveball question that totally cripples me I freak out, like 89 game 4 for example, so was really scared of that happening. I had the games with stenciling/ origami + printing/ verifying/ piano/violin. I found the third game to be a bit tough but the others were fine, and the 4th game was really easy for a 4th game. Luckily I had time to brute force for the 3rd game, so fingers crossed for a -0 here!!!
LR: Medium/ Nothing Crazy - LR is usually my best section, but I was pretty fatigued by the end of the test so could have made silly mistakes, we'll see!!
RC: Really rough, I just was nervous and not focused in the beginning but also I do think the passages were a bit harder than usually - I had monopolies/ wolves vs dog. I had to guess a couple on the second passage (I did them out of order) because I ran out of time, which usually doesn't happen to me, so that sucked!! I am hoping I got the others right though.
So overall this test could go either way for me haha but could have been way worse, depends on the curve but I am confident that I can do better a second time even if I hit my goal this time, so will probably take November anyway :)
Good luck everyone!!!