January 2019 vs. November 2018 Difficulty

Canucks350

Been reading a fair bit about the January exam. For those who also wrote in November, did you find it to be easier/about the same/more challenging than January? This is obviously a subjective question.

Thanks!

DivineRaze

I felt like the LR and RC was harder in November.

Amrina96k

@Canucks350 said:
Been reading a fair bit about the January exam. For those who also wrote in November, did you find it to be easier/about the same/more challenging than January? This is obviously a subjective question.

Thanks!

Definitely harder!
One of the LR section was very difficult.

Bamboosprout

Seems about the same to me. It just depends on your back ground. If you have an arts/humanities background, this RC might be easier for you since it had no hard science passage. LR this time had quite a lot of PMR, and Complete the sentence and MSS questions, and less NA questions. Not sure if it's easier, but definitely a bit different.

Peaceofmind

I thought the November test felt easier for me.

lsatletsdothis

I took both and found the November test to be easier and January one far more difficult. The RC sections I think were around the same difficulty level but LR was definitely harder and LG was slightly more convoluted.

Alex

I felt like the LR was more tricky for me on January’s test. The LG/RC seemed on par with each other.

Regis_Phalange63

@Bamboosprout said:
Seems about the same to me. It just depends on your back ground. If you have an arts/humanities background, this RC might be easier for you since it had no hard science passage. LR this time had quite a lot of PMR, and Complete the sentence and MSS questions, and less NA questions. Not sure if it's easier, but definitely a bit different.

@Bamboosprout Is PMR Parallel Method of Reasoning? If so, then that's quite an anomaly. I think 95% of the time, almost every single LR section ever released has had 2 PMR(including flawed parallel). I have never seen any section where there were more than two.

Bamboosprout

@Regis_Phalange63 said:

@Bamboosprout said:
Seems about the same to me. It just depends on your back ground. If you have an arts/humanities background, this RC might be easier for you since it had no hard science passage. LR this time had quite a lot of PMR, and Complete the sentence and MSS questions, and less NA questions. Not sure if it's easier, but definitely a bit different.

@Bamboosprout Is PMR Parallel Method of Reasoning? If so, then that's quite an anomaly. I think 95% of the time, almost every single LR section ever released has had 2 PMR(including flawed parallel). I have never seen any section where there were more than two.

Yeah. I think it's an anomaly as well. But it's nothing that really matters.

Guillaume

I thought one LR was definitely harder and the other easier. RC was about the same and LG was slightly harder.

Then again, my intuition could be way off. I thought I did better than I did on November's test.

kpj744___

Overall, LR didn't feel awful or RC -- but that LG section.. Killer compared to November. Weird games.

ScrappyNotPerfect

I completely ran out of time on LG this time... I just felt like each game took way longer to move through than the November test. I found the RC to be easier. Not sure about LR... I found it to be about the same as Nov but I ended up doing way worse on that than I’d thought!