My scores on older prep tests are consistently higher (by about 5 points) than newer ones. I feel as I am taking these newer tests that the questions are visibly more difficult. Am I crazy or is there any credence to this observation. I am taking the February LSAT; should I abandon the older tests and study only the new ones in preparation? I appreciate any insight. Thanks.
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I remember researching this a little bit a while ago, I found a site that compared the scoring for all available prep tests. I think you're right that newer ones are harder, since apparently newer tests are stingier with 170+s than the older ones are.
I'd definitely recommend going through newer stuff before your Feb test if possible, since they will be more representative of current tests regardless of scoring.
Prep tests are just LSAT tests from the past. 7Sage does note that there a few points where there's been changes made in the LSAT (I think mainly in some LR stylistic decisions beyond obviously removing logic games) so maybe you're being impacted by them a bit. That being said, I only used a few books to build my fundamentals and do drills and then used the old printed PT books which all still had logic games in them (so I just did the 2 LR and 1 RC).
I don't feel like I was thrown any curve balls when I took the LSAT in November and I hit solidly in the range of what my PTs predicted even though they were all older PTs.