January 2019 vs. November 2018 Difficulty

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  DivineRaze Alum Member

  January 2019 edited January 2019 556 karma

  I felt like the LR and RC was harder in November.
• Amrina96k Alum Member

  January 2019 144 karma

  @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 Alum Member

  January 2019 1694 karma

  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 Alum Member

  January 2019 446 karma

  I thought the November test felt easier for me.
• lsatletsdothis Alum Member

  January 2019 edited January 2019 56 karma

  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.
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  Alex Alum Member ⭐

  January 2019 23929 karma

  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 Alum Member

  January 2019 1058 karma

  @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 Alum Member

  January 2019 1694 karma

  @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 Alum Member

  January 2019 652 karma

  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.
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  kpj744___ Alum Member

  February 2019 231 karma

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

  February 2019 88 karma

  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!