I took the January test (halfway, I may add, and got disqualified 'for stepping outside the building during break without staff instruction') and had a comp passage. Fact check might be in order...
On the other hand, all your frustrations are shared! It is unbelievable that one agency has so much power over so many lives! At times, it even feels as though they know it and are like, 'What are you going to do about it?' Nonetheless, I hope that you straighten out whatever it is you are working on with them, ultimately, for now, that is the only way to get where you are going, law school.
@HannaWallace Sorry for the confusion and thanks for bringing that up. Only some people had the comp passage removed. I took it remotely so maybe it was mostly those people, I'm not sure. There are some discussions about it on other forums online. If you look at the official LSAC website, it now says: "A Reading Comprehension section will include either 3 or 4 single reading passages, and either one or no comparative reading passages."
I'm sorry you had that experience, it must have been frustrating. God forbid we get some oxygen during an hours-long intense cognitive performance.
I haven't actually run into any major problems with LSAC personally (to clarify, I'm just dragging my feet on doing the arg writing portion but there's no issue on their end). I was just looking around on my profile and noticed that typo and it was the last straw for me, lol. But yeah, the ratio of power over our lives to respectful treatment is pretty abysmal. (Which is unfortunately not uncommon for people/institutions in power, but that's another soapbox.) It really does feel like their attitude is "what are you going to do about it." It makes me respect the efforts of people putting pressure on top law schools to follow suit of other schools accepting other standardized tests (not that they're necessarily better, but it makes for a fairer system, in my opinion). That's one long-term solution, at least. We wont see it, but I have hope for the future! Best of luck to you on your journey.
@CasaundraWilliams Sorry for the confusion - only some people had the comp passage removed. I took it remotely so maybe it was mostly those people, I'm not sure. There are some discussions about it on other forums online. If you look at the official LSAC website, it now says: "A Reading Comprehension section will include either 3 or 4 single reading passages, and either one or no comparative reading passages."
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I took the January test (halfway, I may add, and got disqualified 'for stepping outside the building during break without staff instruction') and had a comp passage. Fact check might be in order...
On the other hand, all your frustrations are shared! It is unbelievable that one agency has so much power over so many lives! At times, it even feels as though they know it and are like, 'What are you going to do about it?' Nonetheless, I hope that you straighten out whatever it is you are working on with them, ultimately, for now, that is the only way to get where you are going, law school.
@HannaWallace Sorry for the confusion and thanks for bringing that up. Only some people had the comp passage removed. I took it remotely so maybe it was mostly those people, I'm not sure. There are some discussions about it on other forums online. If you look at the official LSAC website, it now says: "A Reading Comprehension section will include either 3 or 4 single reading passages, and either one or no comparative reading passages."
I'm sorry you had that experience, it must have been frustrating. God forbid we get some oxygen during an hours-long intense cognitive performance.
I haven't actually run into any major problems with LSAC personally (to clarify, I'm just dragging my feet on doing the arg writing portion but there's no issue on their end). I was just looking around on my profile and noticed that typo and it was the last straw for me, lol. But yeah, the ratio of power over our lives to respectful treatment is pretty abysmal. (Which is unfortunately not uncommon for people/institutions in power, but that's another soapbox.) It really does feel like their attitude is "what are you going to do about it." It makes me respect the efforts of people putting pressure on top law schools to follow suit of other schools accepting other standardized tests (not that they're necessarily better, but it makes for a fairer system, in my opinion). That's one long-term solution, at least. We wont see it, but I have hope for the future! Best of luck to you on your journey.
I didn't even know they removed the comp passages...
@CasaundraWilliams Sorry for the confusion - only some people had the comp passage removed. I took it remotely so maybe it was mostly those people, I'm not sure. There are some discussions about it on other forums online. If you look at the official LSAC website, it now says: "A Reading Comprehension section will include either 3 or 4 single reading passages, and either one or no comparative reading passages."