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Originally Posted by WichitaDM
Can you explain how the test is different? The four sections were the same. Its the first practice test in the book "10 Real LSAT Exams" or w/e, it was the book that was recommended on here...
ETA - The book I have is from the LSAC and published in 2007. The 10 tests are from the 90s. You are telling me these arent a valuable metric for the exam?
format-wise, the tests are almost exactly the same, there's only one small difference. more recent tests, starting i think like 5 years ago, changed the reading comp section. now one of the four passages is always a "comparative reading" passage which is actually two smaller passages. the two passages are about the same (or a similar) topic, giving different views and often approaching it from different perspectives (e.g. a legal scholar's perspective vs. a corporation's perspective). it's pretty much the same drill overall though.
i also remember noticing the logic games felt a little different on older tests. not sure why and it's tough to quantify, but you should practice newer tests in case you have the same reaction i did.
finally, fwiw, i think the newer tests tend to have steeper curves in terms of raw score --> real score conversion. i remember one old practice test i took (though i only saw one that was like this) where you could miss 4 and still get a 180. i think nowadays -4 would be looking more like a 175.
Last edited by lolasthma; 09-01-2009 at 04:20 AM.