it's pronounced ass-par-TAME (like taming an animal; 3 syllables total), rather than ass-par-tah-meh (4 syllables)

This was driving me crazy during this explanation ahaha

@ OMG thank you for passing this info on, that is crazy. If the curve were -10 that would be magic.... double double fingers crossed for us!

I was having so much trouble with RC earlier this summer and then I started reading really hard things in my spare time, like classic novels written in older English (which tend to have difficult grammatical structures) and it helped me SO MUCH. I went from getting like -7 to even managing to get -0. Highly recommend! Another thing that also helped me was telling myself I was interested in every passage, it made understanding everything much easier for me :)

Yeah, it makes sense to! You can use the sections you didn't PT with as drill sections so you get two uses for one test

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I had LR-LG-RC. LR seemed really hard to me for some reason, and this is usually a strong section for me. LG was okay; the first few seemed easy but I think I missed a few on the last game (all I remember is printing/verifying and a super easy sequencing game being the first one). RC was okay. I had the honeybees passage last, which I'm sure I missed a couple on bc I ran out of time, and I also had patriotism, jury cases, and another one I'm blanking on. I usually PT mid 160's with an occasional lower 170 and am really curious what the curve will be. I really wanted to land around a 170 but I really have no gut feeling on how I did.

I think I had the exact same exam as you, at least for LG and RC! And I'm in the same score range as you :) Fingers crossed for both of us, I also feel like I have no idea what score I could predict for myself this time — could have gone really well or unexpectedly poorly.

JUST took the exam (first time test taker), I was so scared that the LG section would be miscellaneous or really hard but on my test it wasn't hard at all! I usually can barely finish the section (I average -6 in LG lol) but I finished with 4 minutes to review. Sequence was LR-LG-RC which I felt was optimal for me. Great proctor who never interrupted me —I did get disconnected for 20 seconds in the middle of LR but it wasn't a big deal. My PTs have ranged between 166-170 in the past few weeks, I started with a 154 diagnostic and have been studying since May. I was REALLY glad that I chose to wear foam earplugs since my neighbours were apparently flying a drone very loudly beside my window during my test (I had no idea, couldn't hear them for once).

LR —A few tough questions in the middle, a few unexpectedly easier questions towards the end. I average -3 to -4 in this section and it felt standard to me.

LG —Seriously, this section is usually my nightmare in PTs and is the difference between me breaking 170 and not. But this time it was super easy and I finished with a few minutes to review! Regardless, I'm sure I made a few dumb mistakes here.

RC —Liberal environmentalism, patriotism/ethnocentrism, juries, honeybees. I found these passages to be very fair, the first one was quite easy. Struggled with a few flagged questions in the juries & honeybees sections but I doubt I went beyond -5 in that section. RC is usually my strongest section and I usually go something like -0 to -3.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, I'll probably join the cohort of those retaking in November since I have a lot more work to do on foolproofing my LG section, but I personally felt that this was a very fair test and was very relieved that the LSAC didn't suddenly decide to make the 2020 test much harder (this was one of my recurring nightmares).