The August lsat felt like an entirely different format of testing. Usually, after a practice test, I can gauge how well I did. I could not gauge at all with this new test. When will more recent practice tests be posted so that we can practice with that before the September test?
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How did it feel different?
Unfortunately the LSAC typically publishes only 1 PT a year. We'll probably get a new PT later this year, but no guarantees. We already provide all of the most recent PTs that LSAC has published.
@Kevin_Lin the side bar with the hide answer button and others was slightly different look with smaller icons and different looking icons. The font through out the test seemed different but not too sure.
@Kevin_Lin There were a ton more parallel reasoning questions than I anticipated-- around 5/4 in one section? (super hoping that it was the experimental, but I don't think it was) There were multiple parallel reasoning/flaw questions where the language didn't line up, it was just about the logic and a "shallow dip" method didn't work for me personally -- after looking at the underlying logic and diagramming quickly i could see that the ACs just changed the order of the argument around (not the actual lawgic--> just the order of the premises/conclusion as it shows up, along with wording that made it feel different on the surface) in ways I didn't understand until after diagramming. Then I felt dumb and super played, but just started diagramming ACs with the others before I did anything else and I just kind of hope the change in strategy paid off. Certain questions in LR felt like they leaned closer to inference RC questions than the hard logic LR questions I'm used to. The font for me wasn't the newest font-- it was the font after they changed it, but before they stealth changed it to the one that felt closer to the old font with the three highlighters, though the font size was much smaller than I anticipated. The sufficient/necessary flaw questions didn't come up as often as I thought it would or as much as I'm used to. The number of "math" type questions seemed to have increased. There were a lot more person a says this person b says this type questions too (I think it’s point of issue?) and several more method of reasoning questions. Only one of my LR sections felt typical of what I had been studying, but that was the outlier. RC felt the same, for the most part. The rest was pretty straight forward (define this word, main point, etc). The grammar was wild on one passage, but a quick sentence diagram worked it out.
@new_cheese 100% this.
@Kevin_Lin Adding my comment here too before I peace out of 7sage for the cycle. There was one LR section that was very straightforward and encompassed all the things I expected on the test -- some (simple) conditional logic, tougher flaw/strengthen/weaken questions, etc. The other two sections, including what was an exp. of course, had a notable increase in "math"-y questions and frankly a lot less conditional logic than I wanted. I didn't think it was significantly harder or easier than past PTs, I just thought it was different? My biggest gripe is that when I took the test in February, there was a LOT of formal, conditional logic that was not represented in past PTs, but this test there was barely any formal CL that I felt I needed to diagram.
Agreed! I took it yesterday and the entire interface felt slightly smaller---like the icons, the font, etc. It didn't totally throw me off, but I'm not sure how I did and my pace was definitely slower. I took this one as an irl testing center practice run before my serious attempt in October and I'm SUPER glad I did. I'd recommend testing it out like that if y'all have the time/money.