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Sorry everyone! This fix is live now (you may need to force refresh to pick up the changes)

Sorry everyone! This fix is live now (you may need to force refresh to pick up the changes)

@dulciexue49 Thank you for letting me know! We just rolled out some changes to try to reduce the chances of getting the really bolded font. Couldn't consistently reproduce the issue on our end, so it was a bit of a shot in the dark, I hope we didn't make it worse!

Is it still weird on your end? Does doing https://classic.7sage.com/clear-cache/ again help?

@noraprener549 @kkole44474 @978612 @rebeccastring352 @alan-91620 @juliet7sage

Thanks for the feedback everyone! It's always great to hear what you think about changes so we have a better idea of what's working or not working for everyone.

We are definitely open to changing the font back, or to some other font.

I want to make sure we are all looking at the same font though, because it looks like we ran into issues delivering the new one. When we put in the new font we didn't realize how many browsers would aggressively cache our old styles and show the incorrect (emergency fallback) fonts. These fonts are quite bold, and at least to my taste, unappealing. Sorry! If you find the fonts too bold your browser most likely is showing the wrong fonts. Please try clearing your browser cache:

https://classic.7sage.com/clear-cache/

Here is what the new font (left) should look like compared to the old (right) font:

@kadenkotinek902 said:

@kadenkotinek902 said:

JY saying that the difference is statistically insignificant but then saying that the standard 4-section is the best predictor....now im really confused :/

Because taking two sections means that your performance is averaged. Even if one section happens to be an outlier you'll receive the average of your two scores which, given that any two given LR sections usually have a difference of 1 or less, is going to be closer to your typical score. Outliers are not a good way to track progress and a flex score, even if it is similar to your test day experience, is more prone to outliers. It is the same idea, though on a smaller scale, as scoring 163, 164, 163, 157, and 162 not panicking over the 157. Same with getting too happy about a 170 when your average is 161. Taking the four section and comparing the scores is also like taking an extra flex in some ways because you can generate two flex scores from it.

VerdantZephyr is spot on. We saw little variation in the difficulty between the two LR sections, so any student's expected score is similar for both sections. However, there is significant variability in a particular instance of testing. Averaged over multiple prep tests, there is little difference in the average, but there is more variance in the scores. 4 section tests reduce the variance. Another way of saying this is that 3 section flex has good accuracy but poor precision.

@hyojinlee360 said:

Why not let us compare the standard and Flex scores?

According to what LSAC has told us, if you did a standard 4-section test, that is the best predictor of your Flex score. Better than any Flex calculator, ours or otherwise.

If you are curious about what a flex score might have looked like for a PT you took, you can enter the data here for a guesstimate: 7sage.com/lsat-flex-score-converter.

@alan-91620 said:

@floresjw286 said:

HELP: I pressed the simulate flex option on PT 80 after completing the first 3 sections. It says I got a 155 but my raw score was (65 out of 75) is this correct?? Seems very wrong because I never score below a 169 on 4 section PTs (my first time taking a flex)

Thanks for letting us know about this! We checked and it was definitely scored incorrectly.

We fixed the scoring on PT80 on your account, and I think I know what the problem is. It looks like the problem occurs if someone changes to "Flex" mode then scores the PrepTest less than 20 seconds afterwards. Unfortunately, we haven't figured out a good solution to this yet.

We figured it out! The fix is live so now even if score the test immediately after changing to flex, the results should come out properly. Please let us know if it still isn't working on your side.

@kim329 said:

Sorry if it's already been asked, but would be great to get some input from 7sage admins on you guys selected which section to omit? I'm not expecting sophisticated methodology; not sure one would even be possible. I have found however that the two LR sections on tests aren't always equal in difficulty. I expect the single section on the flex will be of roughly balanced difficulty.

In your data have you guys noticed a higher number of question misses in one LR section of any given test over the other? I'm thinking that if significant differences exist on certain PT's, indicating that to students after they score their tests would be really helpful.

If for example on a certain PT a statistically easier section was the one retained and the difficult one omitted, that would be really critical information to students for gauging/predicting actual test day performance.

Just my two cents; feedback appreciated

@1595628403 said:

Is there any way that can make us to choose which LR can be counted to the test?

Great question!

We ran numbers on a large sample actual student PrepTests. We pretended they did Flex by (A) skipping first LR section or (B) skipping second LR section, applied our Flex Score Convertor, and looked at the average difference in scores.

We found that the spread between the averages for A and B was small. Across the 95 PTs, the biggest spread was a 1.38 (PT 9), and 78 of the 95 PTs had spreads of less than 0.7. For reference, the standard error of the actual LSAT test is 2.6 (https://www.lsac.org/lsat/taking-lsat/lsat-scoring/lsat-score-bands).

That is why we chose the uniform rule of removing the second LR from each PT for Flex simulation. It keeps things simple, and the difference between A and B are small relative to the standard error of the test itself.

@floresjw286 said:

HELP: I pressed the simulate flex option on PT 80 after completing the first 3 sections. It says I got a 155 but my raw score was (65 out of 75) is this correct?? Seems very wrong because I never score below a 169 on 4 section PTs (my first time taking a flex)

Thanks for letting us know about this! We checked and it was definitely scored incorrectly.

We fixed the scoring on PT80 on your account, and I think I know what the problem is. It looks like the problem occurs if someone changes to "Flex" mode then scores the PrepTest less than 20 seconds afterwards. Unfortunately, we haven't figured out a good solution to this yet.

@thejasondude716 said:

Thank you!

I do have what seems to be a bug to report: After I clicked the Flex button on all the PTs I had taken, in my Analytics, the colour for LR and LG has now become the same (both blue). before, it properly showed every section type with a different colour.

Thanks for letting us know! Fix is live, but you may need to force refresh to pickup the change.

@alan-91620 said:

Are PTs 95+ available? I’m saving those PTs for a couple of months from now, but I was just wondering since it was mentioned and I don’t see them under my problem set options.

Sorry, there are 95 PTs available right now but they only have names going up to number 89. IIRC the remaining six are A, B, C, C2, J07, and F97.

@alan-91620 said:

Hello I it says my account does not have access to any PT right now, even though my LSAT Ultimate Plan says I have access to PT 72 right now? Please help!

Sorry about that! We rolled out a fix for this bug a few hours ago. Please let us know if you are still seeing this issue.

@jenbloodworth29585 said:

When using the Flex simulator, how does the system decide which LR section to dismiss? And will the one remaining LR comprise of more of an equal spread of LR question types than that of the dismissed section?

The system always skips the second of the two LR sections.

@otter2s148 said:

If you opt for the flex version prior to taking the PT, do you still have access to take and score the omitted section after you complete the test to use for drilling? #help

Yup! You can still take the skipped LR section through custom problem sets and your analytics should look like you never took the questions in that section. So it won't mess up your analytics, and the questions won't have the recycle "Taken" icon in your question tables.

@taschasp823 Oh I see! We never had LR videos for the oldest preptests, PT 1-16 and PT Feb. 1997.

My earlier message was confusing. I checked a random set of LR videos from PT 1-40, but since there are no videos in 1-16, it was actually a random set from PT17-40. Sorry!

@taschasp823 Thanks for letting us know about this! I tried a random selection of 22 LR explanation videos from PT1-40 and they are loading on my side. Could you please let me know some of the urls for LR explanations that aren't working on your side so we can investigate further?