Since the new interface and highlighting changes, my score on drills and sections has notably decreased. Eliminating or selecting an answer now requires an extra step to the mode toggle, which interrupts my reasoning rather than allowing immediate action, and highlighting now requires repeated clicks per selection instead of one continuous pass through the passage. The result is that the same reasoning work now takes measurably longer, which is counterintuitive given that this strictly timed exam is meant to measure reasoning ability.
At first, I was angry, but I find myself more confused and disappointed. Why would they try to fix something that's not broken, while throwing in obstacles along the way? It's simply unfair to 26-27 test-takers, and it's disappointing to see, especially from an organization designed to help us.
Am I the only one going through this? Does anyone else have any thoughts?
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I 100% agree with you and im a bit surprised I haven't seen more people posting being upset about the change. It makes no sense to me why LSAC would think it's a good idea to make simple tasks require more steps when everything was perfect the way it was before, and every second counts on this test. Maybe they did this on purpose to curveball students given how increasingly competitive law school is getting every year, but who really knows lol. Maybe if enough of us complain they will change it back!
AGREED! This threw me off today, I wasn’t expecting this. I performed so low on my LR section and I have been doing so great this really effed me up. I’m so pissed. I left feedback on LSAC
I had the same feeling with you. I've been so mad at the new UI since Junea and I was trying so hard to let myself be comfortable with it. However, aftering seeing the new hightlight UI, I am totally f-ed up. I left my feedback on LSAC website, I was even trying to message to the Cheif of Operation of LSAC (the genuine who approved this update) on Linkedin but I didn't, cuz I told myself being a lawyer needs to manage anger. But still, I wanna scream on the new UI. It has made my life harder.
Here's my theory: Eugene Krabs actually transformed the Krusty Krab into LSAC. Just like what he did with Krusty Towers in trying to expand profits via a hotel service and subsequently a hospital (based off of how exorbitant the Krusty Krew's hospital fees were), it seems only natural that Mr. Krabs would silently shift towards the standardized testing market for law schools. $253 per test taker on top of $46 for the optional score preview, plus the one time fee of $219 for CAS and a $45 fee per school being applied to - it seems like LSAC seems very reminiscent of a certain crustacean who was already prominent in the fast food industry underwater. But instead of charging individuals such as King Neptune outrageous prices for simple products (cheese on a Krabby Patty), the crustaceous cheapskate saw the chance to charge outrageous prices for this test and simple acts of services such as sending one number to a law school.
Because LSAC sucks! That's why!
is anyone have difficulty using this new feature on seven sage because it does not pop up for me
Probably licensing expiration led them to consider a new service provider, they said it was due to security issues and administrative reasons.
Devils Advocate here: it is better in some ways.
People will resist change, that almost seems to be a guarantee. It used to be that people would get very upset whenever Facebook made any changes, yet does any remember those old systems? The newer ones were well designed, thoroughly tested, and all around ended up being improvements. It feels better and more like popular eReaders.
As far as our LSAT interface goes the new system is a lot quicker, the search function in passages is very fast and actually works now, the text is cleaner and softer plus there are more accessibility options. Reset response is a nice new feature as well.
It works a lot better on the backend, but the ui is not what we have grown comfortable with. As a user it feels like there has been massive improvements on the backend, it is just the UI that is taking some adjustment.
Has anyone considered this is an improvement? That perhaps the LSAC is spending more now than before? Or is the main assumption that this was without concern for the user and done solely to save money?
@NoNamed92 Just because people resist change doesn't mean their frustration can't be valid. Facebook isn't a timed exam; no one on Facebook is using the interface to scroll through posts as fast as they can because their admission into law school depends on it. If something requires more clicks, users will just accept it. But the LSAT score heavily depends on our speed, and answering questions in time is literally a whole other skill to learn. The new changes now require users to spend more time with these unnecessary clicks, which not only wastes time but also interrupts their working memory.
Sure, we're not comfortable with it, but it's more than that. The only thing that may improve with time is our ability to click quicker. What won't change is the AMOUNT of clicks we have to go through for a simple, little task that took minimal effort before. If the LSAT wanted their system to be quicker, their search function to work better, and incorporate more accessibility options, then they should've done just that, not all the other nonsense they included.
@NoNamed92 no lol.