Here's what I sent to the lsat feedback form here (https://www.lsac.org/send-us-your-feedback) regarding the interface coming up. I just had to spend a full fucking minute looking for "second-to-last sentence of the second paragraph of passage A, second-to-last sentence of the first paragraph of passage B" with no highlights before I even got to finish reading the rest of the question. The August test takers will undoubtedly have a disadvantage compared to everyone who already have their scores with this bullshit.

I am writing again regarding the new LSAT interface, particularly in light of the additional changes that have now been implemented.

RC line citations are no longer automatically highlighted. Masking mode resets between questions. Selected answers cannot be deselected or eliminated without additional steps. Eliminated answers must be unmasked before they can be selected. Highlighting and answer elimination have both become more cumbersome.

You have already told me that some of these changes are simply due to "the underlying structure of the new test driver platform." I find that response deeply unsatisfactory. LSAC charges students hundreds of dollars to take this exam and generates substantial revenue from LawHub and related services. If LSAC genuinely wanted to provide the best possible testing experience, "the platform is structured this way" would not be an acceptable excuse for repeatedly introducing unnecessary friction into a high-stakes examination.

LSAC frequently presents itself as an organization committed to advancing access to legal education and maintaining the integrity of the law school admissions process. If you truly believe in that mission, then you should be deeply concerned about introducing changes that make the exam more difficult to navigate, particularly just weeks before an administration, while asking students who have spent months preparing to simply adapt.

The LSAT is supposed to measure reasoning ability. It should not measure how effectively a test taker can compensate for an increasingly cumbersome interface.

You have the resources to do better. The old user interface was infinitely better than this joke of a design. I would encourage LSAC to seriously reconsider whether these limitations should have been accepted in the first place.

You owe test takers more than "that's how the new platform works." You owe us an examination experience that is fair, accessible, and worthy of the organization you claim to be.

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  • Couldn’t agree more with this post truly. You said it best, the test is meant to test reasoning ability. If a student does worse due to their poor interface than that is no fault of the student’s reasoning skills. I genuinely hate the new interface and I encourage everyone to continue to send them messages about our opinions.

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    At this point I'm just hoping that all the schools are aware of these changes and will take them into account when looking at scores from August 2026 onward :/

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  • 4 hours ago

    I completely agree with this assessment; the amount of time I have spent fumbling to deselect an AC I eliminated in error is crazy. There was nothing wrong with the old system from a user perspective. I have had to change my testing strategy just because of this update. There was no reason to role it out now; I know the June exam is technically part of the 2025-2026 cycle, but I would hazard a guess that a lot of people took it for the upcoming 2026-2027 cycle, so I think it would have been smarter to implement this change in like April when the cycle is effectively over to give applicants for the upcoming cycle more time to prepare.

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