Well, I canceled. The logic games win this time. I signed up for November; I'll have to travel about 100 miles to a testing center, but hopefully it'll be worth it...

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This isn't super helpful, but I just wanted to say I'm in the same boat. I was knocked out by the LGs yesterday (it was my first section and I stopped myself from walking out only by assuring my brain that it must've been the experimental). I also have a subpar GPA from over a decade ago. I haven't yet decided whether to cancel, but it occurs to me that if many other folks blindsided by the LGs decide to cancel, then presumably the curve won't actually be that generous, because the leftover non-canceled scores would push the average up. (This assumes that canceled scores aren't included in the scaling; I can't see why they would be. It also assumes most test-takers act rationally and have an accurate view of their performance, which is a big assumption.) So maybe it's overthinking, but that's one factor that weighs in favor of canceling. I also plan to sign up for November, and I don't think it's too soon, as long as the difficulty reverts to the mean.

The numbers of drops simply won't matter. You are not scored based on how you perform among the same month test takers. Each question is pre-calculated for weight/curve based on previous experimental section. LSAC has the curve decided already before we took the test. This is to prevent test takers from trying to figure out which month has the most low-scorers.

Thanks for the info. Ah well, at least I have one less factor to weigh when deciding to drop.

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Is there a database somewhere will all the past curves? I would expect this to be among the most generous, but it occurs to me that if most of the people gutted by the LGs decide to cancel, it could push the curve up in a bad way.

Here you go! https://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/correct_targeted.cfm

Lets keep our fingers crossed...

Thanks!

Is there a database somewhere will all the past curves? I would expect this to be among the most generous, but it occurs to me that if most of the people gutted by the LGs decide to cancel, it could push the curve up in a bad way.

This isn't super helpful, but I just wanted to say I'm in the same boat. I was knocked out by the LGs yesterday (it was my first section and I stopped myself from walking out only by assuring my brain that it must've been the experimental). I also have a subpar GPA from over a decade ago. I haven't yet decided whether to cancel, but it occurs to me that if many other folks blindsided by the LGs decide to cancel, then presumably the curve won't actually be that generous, because the leftover non-canceled scores would push the average up. (This assumes that canceled scores aren't included in the scaling; I can't see why they would be. It also assumes most test-takers act rationally and have an accurate view of their performance, which is a big assumption.) So maybe it's overthinking, but that's one factor that weighs in favor of canceling. I also plan to sign up for November, and I don't think it's too soon, as long as the difficulty reverts to the mean.

So I took the November exam, after taking then cancelling my score on the notorious Sept LG apocalypse. I did decently well but about 5 points short of my average (I'd consistently been getting 170+). To be honest, I thought the LGs in Nov were not much easier than the Sept ones. I'd gotten -0 or -1 on most past LG sections and expected Nov to revert to the mean. Is this the new normal? Or should I give it one more push?