Hi Alan,

What you just described was exactly what was happening to me, except when I continued to click "Enter Payment Information", it did not automatically fix itself. However, on Sunday morning, I tried to pay again on my computer, just to see what would happen, and when I clicked "Enter Payment Information", the little box for my credit card information came right up and I was able to pay successfully!

I've started the course and now everything is fine, but this probably is a bug that you guys should take a look at so that other people do not run in to the same issue.

Also, I tried to pay in Safari and in Chrome and had the same problem in both browsers.

Yeah I guess having a different test overseas is normal. But I'm glad that I got the same one as everyone else so that I can read their comments about it!

@ Oh my goodness that is so weird! No I did not have anything like that! I had 2 RC's, and neither one of them had a passage about sand dunes in Mongolia.

So here is my opinion: I don't think that it would be fair for LSAC to curve your test based on a completely different test that every other test taker took for the 2014 December LSAT. They don't know ahead of time how people will perform on any given test and they can't just plug your score into a curve that is not even for a test that you took just because they think that the difficulty level is the same. I think that you should contact LSAC about it.

Everyone should have taken the same test this round. They shouldn't have given out different tests.

I took the LSAT for the first time in June 2012, right before graduating from undergrad in December of that year. At that point, I was not really sure if I even wanted to be an attorney, but I thought that if I a good score on the LSAT, I would just go to law school the following year anyway.

I did NOT get the kind of score that I wanted, so I decided to go out and have some life experiences! I moved to South America to be an intern for a legal aid organization that fought for child sexual assault victims for a year and I loved it so much that I stayed on longer. I worked with attorneys who were very bright and who were really helping people in an unfamiliar culture and language for two years and it was this experience that prompted me to re-take the 2014 December LSAT and start my journey towards becoming an attorney.

After taking a couple of years off from LSAT studying, I did better on my practice tests than I ever did two years ago. I also have confidence that this is the right path for me. However, I think the most important thing that my experiences from my years living abroad has given me is perspective. I studied for the December LSAT as hard as I could. I took as many practice tests as I could. I did everything within my power on test day to get the highest score possible. Now it is out of my hands. But no matter what score comes back, I will still be an attorney in a few years.

So, in summation, I guess my advice to anyone who wants to retake would be this: before retaking the LSAT, make sure that this is really what you want to do for yourself, and that you are not doing it because someone told you that you should do it. Figure that out however you need to. If you already feel affirmed that law is the right career path for you, that is great! Now realize that when you take this test, it is just the first step towards becoming an attorney. If you score a few points lower on the actual test than you did on the practice tests, that won't prevent you from going to law school. I feel so much better about this last LSAT because I am finally able to view it in that way.

I took the test at an unpublished test site in Bolivia in December and I know that I had the same test as some people in North America. Are you sure your test was different?

Just for clarification, in case anyone else has this question, most top law schools' websites say something like this:

"The LSAC report for an applicant who has sat for the LSAT more than once will show every score or cancellation, as well as the average score. The ABA requires law schools to report score information based on an admitted student's highest score, and therefore, that is the score to which we give the most weight. We do, however, consider the average score as well, because data provided by the Law School Admissions Council suggests that it has the greatest predictive utility. The average score becomes less useful, though, as the disparity between two scores increases; for that reason, if you have a significant disparity between scores (six or more points), it would be very helpful to address any explanation for the difference in an optional essay or addendum." (University of Michigan)

After a semester of studying with another prep course in 2012, I took the June LSAT and did OK. After taking the 7Sage Starter course to prep for the December 2014 LSAT, I improved 6 points on test day. For someone who was already very familiar with the LSAT, that's a pretty big jump! Thanks 7Sage!