October Curve Prediction

NYC12345

Hey all,
I thought I'd make a thread about possible curves for the exam. Yes, I know, it is purely speculation. Many people thought the exam was comparatively very difficult. In fact, Spivey posted an article about the difficulty, which can be found here (http://spiveyconsulting.com/blog/help-i-failed-the-lsat-october-edition/)
What is the consensus on 7sage? Did you guys find the exam to be of moderate difficulty, or more or less? I think this exam was slightly more difficult than 72.

mimimimi

I found LRs were difficult.

NYC12345

I concur, @mimimimi

EmergingAttorney180

-12 for 170 sounds reasonable.

Petrichor

-11 but hoping for -13 or better

Pacifico

-12 all the way...

nicole.hopkins

@Petrichor said:
hoping for -13 or better

this, a lot

Tankstin

I hate to be the contrarian about this, but I found the LR and RC much much easier than almost any of the score of practice tests I've taken. I truly hope -12 is the 170 mark, because my LG will be anywhere in the range of -2 to a nightmare -5 (as opposed to the -0 or -1 we all work so hard for and in turn come to expect...). But truthfully I think the test balanced itself out well, as it's wont to do, and don't see much reason for it being atypical to the ordinary -10/-11 170.

Petrichor

@Tankstin I think this may be due to question type prevalence cooperating with your strengths. I found certain LR types to be really underrepresented or completely missing on this test while others were over represented. RC was typical (IMO) and LG was on the slightly easier side (but more difficult than June)

Tankstin

Right, I didn't mean to intimate that LG was harder than normal- it was very on par for the most recent tests. My struggle there was a result of my own silly early inference mistakes.

You're right that the rest could have played to my strengths on question types- If I remember correctly there was a dearth of parallel reasoning at least.

At any rate, I am used to circling 4 or 5 per LR and a few RC questions to come back to. This whole test I maybe circled 5 or 6 total, and I felt very comfortable and confident doing that. I was expecting to over circle out of an abundance of caution.

RM112015

I felt that the two LR sections balanced themselves out. One LR section was definitely harder than the other, and RC and LG were fairly representative of the 70s.

nicole.hopkins

I'm feeling like this thread is not super encouraging and maybe we all need to find something to do with ourselves The sudden openness of schedule most of us are experiencing can be a trap (and idleness invites rumination).

So let's all go find something productive to do

Pacifico

@nicole.hopkins said:
So let's all go find something productive to do

So, start a betting pool on the curve? Over/under is -12.5 for a 170. Curve of -15 or crazier pays 100 to 1. We'll clean up!

I feel like it was pretty obvious the curve will be -32 so I'm just going to apply to Columbia tonight and see you all on the flip side :P

mpits001

how do you all feel you did?

Pacifico

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