Help! Major score drop from pt to real thing

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  SlowDown Alum Member

  August 2023 84 karma

  To my understanding, no they're not scored differently. Sometimes test day can just get the better of anyone, so it's hard to say what went wrong (especially without specific section scoring to refer to).

  If you really are consistently averaging where you want to be, brush it off and try again. Sometimes things don't go your way, but they will eventually.
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  AlexLSAT. Alum Member

  August 2023 802 karma

  Were you taking earlier PTs? The newer PTs and LSATs are a little harder than the old ones, so this could account for the drop off you saw. I went from 169 > 162 the first time I took a PT in the 80s.

  Nerves and test anxiety are also a real thing too so that also could have accounted for the drop.

  In terms of the score itself, though, 7sage does it the same way as the real LSATs (the 7sage tests are also previous real LSATs too.)
• emilyeaton Alum Member

  August 2023 9 karma

  Thanks so much for your responses guys! Ive been taking the newer ones which is why i was a bit shocked lol but i guess there is always october?
• addison101220 Core Member

  August 2023 edited August 2023 56 karma

  Did you take the proctored version of this test? I understand that there were a lot of problems for people who took the online version of the LSAT in August... if you were one of the people who had issues, that may be the culprit.
• emilyeaton Alum Member

  August 2023 9 karma

  Yes lol i was and i had some issues both times - major issues the first time but only slight issues the second
  Did any of you take it in a test center, and if so did what did it look like?