Hey 7Sagers,
Here's the official January 2021 LSAT-Flex Discussion Thread.
**Please keep all discussions of the January 2021 LSAT-Flex here!**(/red)
Rules:
❌ 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 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)
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Hi everyone! I just completed my exam my order was LR (26), LG (23) and RC (27)
LR topics that I can remember were about some sort of dinosaur claw and climbing prey, and a study about fat and walnuts in a diet study---I'm blanking on any other topics. Nothing to crazy to note, very much a LR section. Depending on what question types appear, and the degree of difficulty of that question type is what causes the most fluctuation for me here.
LG-- had one about paintings and sculpture and another about buildings being built on campus. The games were what you expect. If any points were lost here is was because of my nerves, but overall was a solid section for me! Nothing that made me want to pull my hair out!
RC-- normal RC experience, nothing to out of left field, but I myself usually do best on the hardest RC sections. I had something about ocublits? ocbliets? idk I can't spell, and it was about chemistry and physics. There was also one about tech in the courtroom, and weaving looms.
Overall for me I'd say this test was standard, (considering I took the oh so lovely pt 88 last September though anything would be better than THAT experience) (also for a laugh, my cat died 2 days before that LSAT, and one of the games topics was on puppies, and you guessed it kittens, the LSAT gods know no bounds)
Good luck to everyone else taking the exam in the coming hours/days! :)
i swear to god if i see any comments implying there are misc games on this test....
Congrats to everyone who sat today!
Whether you chose the first day of testing or not, it was a a smart decision because look whose all done! Now you get to watch the rest of us nervous wrecks frantically post in the forum lol!
Go enjoy a drink and congratulate yourself for completing a very difficult exam that is accompanied by many precise intellectual AND psychological obstacles. JY would be very proud of all of you!
I'm putting good energy into the universe for your scores and am sure you all nailed it! Hoping to do the same thing for my sitting on Tuesday!
wow my experience using a Mac was terrible, had so many security issues/downloading issues, could not get the chat box to appear, etc.... took about an hour of communication with tech assistance to final figure it out. completely threw me out of rhythm. FML
173!
I feel like there has been a constant drum roll going on in my head for this score to come in ahahah
Just took the test and echoing what others said. It felt pretty fair I thought, so do not stress it too much!
I had to take this one as my Oct 2020 Flex did not go as planned and I would say that this was definitely a nicer test to have for a retake (in terms of difficulty).
For those out there that drastically underperformed, you are certainly not alone. After a year of studying, and a lot of money spent, I ended up with a whopping 148. Seeing that score was one of the lowest moments of my life. However, it has only made me more determined to continue fighting. Some take to this test like a duck to water, and others have to fight, scratch, and claw for every small improvement.
I got a score of 166, and I'm just so, so happy and grateful. Thanks 7 Sage, and good luck to everyone else!!!!!
Just finished the LSAT Flex. Tried to ease my nerves in the beginning but was definitely overwhelmed once I began. I feel like I blacked out on the first 5 questions but hopefully pulled through. It was a fair section.
Feeling really confident about first two LG but had to make guesses on a few questions in each third and fourth games due to timing.
RC seemed fair, nothing out of the ordinary.
I don’t know how to feel right now — I either did well and met my goal or it was my worse performance yet! These next three weeks waiting for scores will be tough! Anyone else feeling like they aren’t sure how they did?
oh yeah and my proctor interrupted me on the 3rd question to ask me if I had my phone on me (which I didn't) something I feel like she should have asked me prior to starting. By the time I replied to her, and reread the stimulus, cost me about a minute, potentially the reason for guessing on the last two questions .... again, FML
Hello all! Took my LSAT 2 days ago and I got LR-LG-RC. I felt like I bombed LG which is supposed to be my best section. I felt it was a little more difficult compared to the usual prep tests. Spent too much time on the third game and completely messed up the last game sigh. LR and RC (my most unstable section) seemed okay - I got the passages on Kafka, Diplomacy, Pollution law and I can't remember the last one. Currently praying for the best, and probably will be taking in April because I felt I didn't do my best :(
I had technical difficulties that lasted around 20 mins before my test. A special shout out to my amazing proctors who never interrupted me once during the test, and even wished me the best at the end. You guys made my whole first LSAT experience better! Best of luck and God bless to all who took the Jan LSAT. WE DID IT!
All of the "gotcha" methods like time sinks and games that are supposed to take abnormally long are counterproductive to the entire purpose of the test in the first place.
The time pressure is already going to make test takers perform worse than if they were allowed to not have to rush through sections, so all of the extra BS if anything is just another barrier in getting an accurate evaluation of someone's true capabilities on the test as opposed to if they are savvy regarding the methods the test makers use. Why should you be penalized if it takes you 2 minutes to answer questions as opposed to 1:30, or because you didn't complete a game you actually could've finished because you were wasting time with a time trap? That says more about the circumstance than what you are truly capable of.
Knowing to skip a game or passage has no translation to any skills but can put two equally capable people into entirely different brackets of scores, in turn giving them entirely different law school prospects. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Shouldn't we be less worried about others "cheating to get a higher score" and more so why the LSAT goes so far out of its way to make people jump through hoops that don't matter and are irrelevant to being a lawyer?
TL;DR - Worried about the wrong issues
I am going to be a bit of a Karen, spurred by posts I've seen across the internet.
Is anyone else rather concerned at the level of leaked information out there regarding these exams? This forum, reddit, elsewhere, are all getting into which passages are the most difficult, which games are the most difficult, and so on. Indeed, I've seen several posts now of people happy they took the exam later since they knew what to expect.
I am entirely ok with someone saying a section was difficult. But when people get into the specifics of say, passage 1 is very hard, 2 is easy, 3 is easy, and 4 is very hard, it gives an absolutely massive advantage in avoiding time sinks, if not anything else. Advantages that people who take the exam earlier miss. Hell, even just saying "X passage/ game was really difficult" opens the door for me to easily strategize.
It is mind boggling how few unique sections this LSAT seems to have. As far as I can tell, there really aren't that many section options. In fact, it seems to come down to 1 of 2 sections for LG/RC/LR (might be wrong). People are still getting the same sections I got back on Saturday!
This is a problem. I am curious if the LSAC will notice scores creeping up as the week goes on.
Just finished. LR-LG-RC
LR felt suspiciously ok as I was making very good time. As always, hard to say if this was a good thing or not. I didnt have enough time to double check all answers but I got through about half of my flagged ones. The only Q I really remember is one about "low sodium" tomato soup.
LG is a write off. My brain stopped working entirely. I remember one about 18th, 19th, and 20th century paintings and sculpture, archaeologists and studying items, and one more about buildings on upper or lower levels. I got through game 1, then half way through the rest I became so concerned that I was spending too much time on one thing that I kept jumping around which was probably very dumb. Guessed on about 8 questions so thats great. Idk, I was too anxious to properly lay out boards and make inferences so that's a kiss of death for sure.
RC felt fine. Kafka, corporate evasion, big bang theory, and diplomacy. That section overall felt moderate to easy and I actually finished with enough time to spare to double check a couple answers.
Overall I don't really know what to expect. Fumbled games worse than usual but the rest seemed alright. Highest PT was 159, not sure if I did enough to hit that. Pray for me.
Did anyone have an African/South American crocodile question in LR?
Does anyone else just randomly have LR questions popping into their head from the LSAT Flex all day or is that just me?
[Making a morning shake, internal] "Ah, that stupid Shakespeare question! Why'd I switch my answer?!"
If anyone took November's exam and this one I would be interested to hear how you thought they compared in terms of difficulty.
@hopje336 said:
Did anyone find the LR questions to be really hard? I was really shook at some of the questions
Insanely hard. I feel like I bombed the whole section 🥲
@jpoznan0587375 said:
@ericadavidson97848 I'm so sorry about your cat !!
My diagnostic was 154 / 158 w/BR and my worst section was RC. Any suggestions on how to improve??
I found that for RC the best thing that I did was to start highlighting and try to just sink myself as deep in to the passage as possible. While I'm reading I don't focus on questions that COULD happen only on the words and the story that they are trying to tell me. This way when I get to the questions, I just understand what they are referring to and can answer them swiftly and without much backtracking to the passage itself. Hope this helps!
@alexmich351 said:
Those of you who took the exam, What are your plans for the next couple weeks??
Finish my final semester in graduate school, not think about this test or practicing lol. I know my parents are happy about me not saying LSAT this or that 😂
I got RC-LR-LG Which is my ideal order because it goes from my least favourite to favourite section haha. I thought it was a pretty balanced test. Better than the Nov-Flex. RC was super manageable, no surprises. LR was pretty good, nothing that stuck out as really difficult. I don't think I did as well at LG as I usually do (normally I go -1or -2) but that's probably because of nerves and I still think I did ok. I got a 157 on the November LSAT and I've been PTing 158-165 since then. I'm hoping for a score in the 160s!
Good luck to everyone still to write! Congrats to everyone who's written!
Few months ago I read a comment that said, "I undersestimated how nervous I was going to be", and I thought, "I think I'm going to be okay".
I couldn't even think for the first couple minutes in. I skipped first 3 questions in LR. I was able to come back later to finish though.
I thought LR was hard.
RC was easier than some of the PTs in the 80s, it was fair.
LG, I ran out of time during the last game and took educated guess in 2 of them. And the last two it was straight a guess. We shall see...
For the FLEX do we have the option to choose "dark mode" and does the exam look the way it does on 7sage - specifically the font and the option to choose modes? Best of luck everyone, my exam is tomorrow.
t-2 hours till scores come out
i'm ready to get hurt and go die in a hole