RC line citations are no longer highlighted for you.
They used to be highlighted in the old interface, making what you're asked about easier to spot. Now you have to find the referenced text yourself.
OLD, EASIER:
NEW, "IMPROVED":
You'll want to use a combination of the search box and plain ol' counting sentences and paragraphs to find what you're asked about now. You'll get used to it.
A few other updates to match LawHub's behavior:
Masking mode resets when you switch questions.
Clicking a selected answer doesn't de-select it, and you can't eliminate a selected answer in masking mode. To de-select, pick a different answer or click reset response.
You can't select an eliminated answer — you have to unmask it first.
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I will still make it no matter what they do
What purpose does this serve besides making the exam arbitrarily more difficult for students?
@iwillgeta175 None whatsoever - I could be way off base but I see some of these dumb arbitrary changes (like taking away the lines indicating the separation of each RC passage or making it so that you had to click on a list to see which questions were still unanswered or flagged, which they all eventually modified but still) as their way of trying to stop score inflation. The only other weapon they have, apart from difficulty, is time. So if people seem to be getting better at difficult questions, the only other thing they can do is try to make you waste as much time as you can.
It's garbage, but I guess this is what it's come to.
I was just thinking after I saw that change in the highlighter tool, "Could this get any worse?".... Welp, they just did it(again)... I'm really starting to think that they are out of "super hard questions" for new LSATs, so they are using these methods to torture us on exam day instead lololol.
@phi It's a classic case of "the students are able to do what we asked of them!! oh no!!! our poor normal curve!! we need to manufacture a normal curve by any means necessary!!!"
Im glad LSAC is getting sued lol. What a joke.
@EliNorris they are? for what?
@dalva7643 https://lcbf.com/antitrust-class-action-filed-against-lsac-related-to-application-fees/
price fixing with member universities, its an anti trust suit
"IMPROVED" being in quotes is cracking me up lol. A bit of levity in a dire/irritating situation, but we will get through this! Thanks for the update @Kevin_Lin
each day this test somehow chips away another ounce of my strength
it's frustrating they keep making the changes when the August test is 3 weeks away. At this point they are just doing this to make the test more tedious and time consuming.
Not being able to unselect an answer is driving me up the wall. Never realized how much I did that before
@SusanLeifker reset response?
@Relay yes, but that also resets which answers I crossed out as well I'm pretty sure 💔
@SusanLeifker ah ok
It makes it all the more frustrating that LSAC either has not, will not, and/or cannot provide a valid explanation for this change (and if they have, they've done a neglectful job to inform test takers). Beyond their "security concerns," there seems to be no real benefit towards their goal of accurately measuring an individual's ability to actually take the test.
@am08 The curve was breaking, I see this as an attempt to fix the curve. They can't have a world where people continue to do better and better at this test. Removing highlighting means that it is harder to keep track of information. Removing the elimination means that we have to better keep track of alternative faulty arguments all mentally, neither of those sound that different from the skills needed in law school. or law. When we are arguing before a judge we have to be able to keep track of the information as it is coming to us.
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This seems quite unusual for LSAC to change the exam UI so much. It seems that they are intentionally making the exam harder. First the lsat test interface changed and the text became smaller, then the mask feature was made more difficult, then the highlighting feature was changed, and now this.
@AlexHaro I think they are definitely making features more time consuming!
@AlexHaro Facts! Because law schools keep complaining about score inflation. The thing is... smaller text doesn't assess your reasoning abilities. It assesses whether or not your vision is 20/20. Many of these changes are silly and unproductive. Now that I know what they are trying to do, I will begin drilling super difficult science passages, because that's an easy way for them to make the exam as a whole harder.
What a lovely and arbitrary normal-curve-manufacturing change that does absolutely nothing to evaluate your abilities 😍 Thank you LSAC 🙏
geez i wish i finished taking this exam before they made all these changes lol
this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen, if it wasn't already stressful theyre making it 10 times harder especially for students struggling. fuck LSAC
what the actual hell is going on we have an exam in a few weeks they are changing everything now?
Given we are 3 weeks out from the August test, do you expect more changes to the interface between now and then? My concern is that they throw in a new change right before I take the test and I get a curveball when I start.
@EvanS There are a few minor changes we will make to match LawHub's current tester (related to information that appears when hovering over various items, as well as small formatting issues when reading a passage in "Passage only" mode). But we don't expect any other changes.
my time just went up
They are genuinely so cruel for this. UGHHHHHH
I swear LSAC hates us
i'm at the point where i wasn't even shocked when i saw this. i just laughed. i think i'm so used to LSAC screwing test takers over that it's just normal now.
https://www.lsac.org/send-us-your-feedback
Let your feelings be heard here!
7sage UI team would like to have a word with LSAC
LSAC is honestly such a crappy organization!! How do they think this is fair? Don't they realize this change puts more recent test takers at a disadvantage compared to prior test takers? They only care about making things easier for the law schools they serve. They don't care about candidates at all. Also, even if you're an experienced test taker and know what to highlight, the highlighting function is more time-consuming to use. I repeat... LSAC sucks!!
@Relay it’s not graded on a curve.
@CameronB never mind, you're essentially right, my bad, LSAT sets the difficulty of the form manually.
There was no reason for LSAC doing this
@Amrita329 Oh there is, it's a very underhanded attempt at trying to fight score inflation. This also means all test takers going forwards are at a disadvantage compared to people who already have scores. Sucks to be us I guess.
Wow this is really gonna help test my reading comprehension skills better