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Appealing lsat question

Tristan MTristan M Alum Member
in General 71 karma
Hypothetically, if an appeal is won contesting a problematic question within a past afministration (which we all know is a rare occurence), are all scores for that administration adjusted accordingly? Also, what is the general time frame of this process, if it should happen?

Note: l'm not predicting this outcome in any shape or form from this most recent administration. Im just curious how 'concrete' one's final score is given the mere existance of this possibility.
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  • lschoolgolschoolgo Member
    edited October 2015 274 karma
    Lsac will never admit (after they have released scores and the PT) that a Q was flawed. admitting it means readjusting scores for tens of thousands and liability which is near impossible to manage.

    even if they screwed up, they will use and fall back on the disclaimer/instructions that say "choose the best choice" even though there could be no correct or more than 1 correct choice due to the lsac's mistake
  • Tristan MTristan M Alum Member
    71 karma
    Yeah, that makes sense, but we've all seen PT's were a question has been "removed from scoring". Is this not an indication that the question was indeed flawed?
  • lschoolgolschoolgo Member
    edited October 2015 274 karma
    the questions that you saw "removed from scoring" are most likely the ones that were removed before PT/scores were released.

    this can happen due to 2 reasons.

    one, lsac removed it themselves because despite passing when used in experimental in prev administrations, the Q did not pass the psychometric measures during the real test.

    second, some 180 level scorer was so annoyed by the mistake in the question that he/she remembered the q well enough (at the cost of losing points due to annoyance during the real test) and submitted a credible challenge to lsac right after the test completed and that lsac accepted their mistake.

    this latter case likely is very rare because very few takers are capable of both remembering the question well enough and presenting analysis to successfully contest it while having the zeal to do it. since holding this annoyance while taking the test negatively impacts one's performance, one has to be both very top scorer and annoyed enough to risk losing a few points to do it.
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