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Problem Set Changes
Alan Cheuk-2
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Note: These changes are now live!
Hi everyone,
We were really eager to improve problem sets after LSAC changed their licensing requirements, so we pushed out LR problem set changes before we should have. This resulted in a lot of confusion - thank you for bearing with us through all these changes, sorry!
We've been working hard to do an overhaul of the problem sets that we hope you'll all like. We hope to roll out the changes in about a week, but it may take longer. Here are the major changes:
* You will be able switch between seeing the new problem sets and the old ones from the Account settings page. So if you select the old problem sets, you'll only see those ones and not the new ones. The new problem sets are the default. The old problem set lessons will be back where they used to be if you select old problem sets. Shoutout to @focaliant for this great suggestion!
* There will be little to no overlap between the core curriculum and the problem sets. Some of you noticed that some of the questions in the old and new problem sets were also in the core curriculum, and we wanted to fix that.
* There will be new RC and LG problem sets.
* The new LR problem sets will be reordered to ramp up difficulty a more evenly.
This means that if you are in the middle of a group of the new problem sets, we recommend finishing that group and delaying other problem sets until after the changes take effect.
For example, if you're in the middle of the new group of Most Strongly Supported problem sets, you should try to finish them, and put off the Weaken problem sets until after the change is done.
If you are in the middle of a group of problem sets when the change hits, then you may end up skipping some questions, and repeating others. Not a catastrophe, but it is definitely cleaner if you're not in the middle of a group of problem sets.
Hi everyone,
We were really eager to improve problem sets after LSAC changed their licensing requirements, so we pushed out LR problem set changes before we should have. This resulted in a lot of confusion - thank you for bearing with us through all these changes, sorry!
We've been working hard to do an overhaul of the problem sets that we hope you'll all like. We hope to roll out the changes in about a week, but it may take longer. Here are the major changes:
* You will be able switch between seeing the new problem sets and the old ones from the Account settings page. So if you select the old problem sets, you'll only see those ones and not the new ones. The new problem sets are the default. The old problem set lessons will be back where they used to be if you select old problem sets. Shoutout to @focaliant for this great suggestion!
* There will be little to no overlap between the core curriculum and the problem sets. Some of you noticed that some of the questions in the old and new problem sets were also in the core curriculum, and we wanted to fix that.
* There will be new RC and LG problem sets.
* The new LR problem sets will be reordered to ramp up difficulty a more evenly.
This means that if you are in the middle of a group of the new problem sets, we recommend finishing that group and delaying other problem sets until after the changes take effect.
For example, if you're in the middle of the new group of Most Strongly Supported problem sets, you should try to finish them, and put off the Weaken problem sets until after the change is done.
If you are in the middle of a group of problem sets when the change hits, then you may end up skipping some questions, and repeating others. Not a catastrophe, but it is definitely cleaner if you're not in the middle of a group of problem sets.
Comments
Here's a brief synopsis: http://lsatblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/lsac-bans-lsat-preptest-pdf-sales.html
Here's my best attempt at trying to explain what's going on (warning: long!)
Before mid-June, there were Old LR, Old RC, and Old LG problem sets. Because of the LSAC PDF ban, these problem sets were just lists of questions followed by lists of answers that left the work of getting the questions up to the student, unless they got the PDFs before the ban.
These problem sets date back from when we started 7Sage, and we did the best we could with limited time. Unfortunately, they were a loose collection of questions that overlapped with the core curriculum, were sometimes mislabeled, they were too long (not bite-sized like the rest of the curriculum), didn't use analytics data, and did not take difficulty into account. This was a difficult thing to fix since they were tied with the PDFs.
Since we can't have problem set PDFs any longer, we decided to redo the problem sets, make it a little easier for users to find the questions they need, halve their length, add analytics data, and take difficulty into account. We finished the LR problem sets first ("New LR Beta"), and replaced the Old LR on the site in mid-June.
The Old LR were moved to a new class at the end of the Core Curriculum called "Old Problem Sets". The time estimate for these problem sets were reduced to zero so that it wouldn't affect the time estimates for students using the new problem sets. The Old RC and Old LG problem sets remained where they were, but we planned to do something similar with them when the New RC and New LG were ready.
Unfortunately, after putting it out we noticed some problems with New LR Beta:
1. The difficulty scaling wasn't very smooth. It was roughly correct, but it didn't go smoothly from easiest of the easy to hardest of the hard.
2. Some (8) questions were mis-tagged.
3. Students were justifiably confused by the "Old Problem Set" situation, and the completion/time estimate complications that resulted from it.
4. There was still overlap with the Core Curriculum.
We still needed to replace Old RC and Old LG with New RC and New LG, so we decided to incorporate fixes these 4 problems into the LR and RC replacements and also for New LR Beta.
We normally like to put out changes incrementally as we complete them. But given the complications that arose from the release of New LR Beta, we're going to bundle all these changes into one big push.
Once the change is out - you'll be able to go into your Account settings page http://7sage.com/account/, and see an option for using the old problem sets. That setting isn't there now, but will be available after the change. If you select that option, you won't see the new problem sets on your syllabus, and your time estimates should reflect the old problem sets, and vice versa.
The New Problem Sets are going to be distributed like this:
* Starter: The very easiest problem sets
* Premium: Easy problem sets
* Ultimate: Easy/Medium problem sets
* Ultimate+: Easy/Medium/Hard problem sets
We haven't added it up, but after taking into account no repeats from the Core Curriculum, we expect that:
* Starter and Premium will probably have less New Problem Set questions than Old Problem Set Questions.
* Ultimate will probably have roughly the same number of Old/New questions.
* Ultimate+ will probably have more New than Ultimate had Old.
You'll continue to have access to the Old Problem Sets (with the Account settings option) for at least the rest of the year. So if you want, you can chose the Old Problem Sets option and have the same amount as before.
No complaints here—I've worked in change management and this is par for the course.
The only people who will really have a decision to make are new subscribers once all the packages are revised and put on sale in their new format. And they have to build in some sort of incentive to purchase a higher level package.
Personally I think it would be better to offer more problem sets as you go up, but not segregate difficulty by price. For example, starter packs could get three problem sets: one easy, one medium, one hard. But I can understand their approach as well.
Everyone who has an account needs to realize they still have everything they paid for and will continue to have it for the foreseeable future, likely well past their subscription's expiration date. So just enjoy the free added content or ignore it if you don't need it. Honestly the old problem sets were more than enough so everyone should be good to go with what they have.
http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/3248/problem-set-changes-happening-tonight-wednesday-night-thursday-morning