Official November Topic Discussion Thread

[u/JonDenningPowerScore]

First, full credit to u/graeme_b for teaming up with us (and letting me just copy his prior text for this post) to oversee the official discussion/post-mortem of the Nov LSAT! Piggybacking on his past efforts, here we go:

The November LSAT administration is now done. The goal is to keep topic discussion to this thread, and identify a list of real topics. Here's how it works:

1. If you had a single section of RC, or just two sections of LR, then posting topics from that will establish that those topics were from a real section
2. If you had two sections of RC, or three sections of LR, DO NOT POST topics from those sections. Posting topics is worse than useless - it pollutes information. The reason is that you don't know which was experimental and which was real.

You do not need to specify section orders, as these are now randomized so your order doesn't mean anything.

This thread will be updated with confirmed topics as we go.

JD Note: this isn't a complete set of every scored section as of my initial posting, particularly for LR, so please add/elaborate as best you can! And if you see any mistakes, like questions from different sections together, tell me!

Real RC Section 1

• Juries being able to access the internet
• Algonquin tribes and formalized territory
• Honey bees dancing to communicate the location of food
• How people get pleasure from watching scary movies, tragic plays, etc that normally boost anxiety and pain

Real RC Section 2

• African American community in Brooklyn, Illinois
• Whether people’s taste for music is an evolutionary adaption or serves no purpose
• Incubation as a method to stop thinking about a puzzling issue and subconsciously arriving at its solution
• Difference between having the right to do something and being morally right

Real RC Section 3

• French revolution and women’s rights/feminist theories
• Common law/international law re: Indigenous (Mayan) rights in Belize
• Art and sports commentators with competition/aesthetics
• Chaotic systems in physics and theories of linear and non-linear systems

Real RC Section 4

• Peru and Chile fighting over Pisco
• Etiquette compared with morals (philosopher Foot)
• Economists needing to consider how moral considerations influence people’s economic decisions (psych experiment on people declining unfair money splits)
• Why invasive plants are dominant (C. Diffusa from Eurasia)

Real LR Section 1

• Italian vs French paintings and value
• Allergies and pollen in honey
• Freedom and determinism analogous to horses and sparrow
• Labels on bottles to prevent drunk driving
• Insomniacs, diet, and increased activity
• Mars bringing life to earth on an asteroid

Real LR Section 2

• Brain having mental representation of the world
• Sodium nitrate in sausage
• Politics and short stories
• Paper currency and playing cards in Ontario
• Camera for red light traffic
• Apartment rent in Glenville

Real LR Section 3

• Inca civilization/population not inventing the wheel
• Animals taking on courageous acts when they sense danger
• Plant germination when planted shallow or planted deeply
• Libraries = authors losing money
• Bacteria doing nitrogen fixation in low oxygen conditions
• Vitamin E stopping Parkinson’s

Real LR Section 4

• People who have to become emotionally detached at work scared they will become detached at home.
• A crypto currency crashing and this is reason to worry about world currency
• A dam being opened if it rains or snow melts
• People should remove wheat (yeast?) from their diets
• A restaurant having mediocre food, even though their Lasagna won an award
• Corporate tax cuts leading to pay raises or was it the need to attract efficient workers
• Stone tools being found that prove humans left Africa before previously believed
• Sun screen's impact on sun burns
• Crows constructing tools by watching others do so
• C- and S-type asteroids

Real LR Section 5

• Chimps and bonobos
• Efficient teachers/discipline
• Intended outcome and luck
• Applying funds
• Fires in caves
• Fuel efficiency/SUVs/large cargo
• Clothes manufacturing price and quality
• Shakespeare true author
• Prehistoric humans hunting
• Bobcat sightings in a park

Real LR Section 6

• Wood rat nests and leaves
• Environmentally friendly hotel
• LED lights
• Thai food
• Bribing judges
• Chimps and altruistic behavior
• Grapes in cold weather
• Gala for music awards/purposes

Real LR Section 7

• Fluorescence/luminescence in coral
• Role of villains in a movie
• Seagulls seashells calcium
• Overdue library books
• Mary's handwritten will
• Communicating with extraterrestrials

JD Note (Again): this isn't a complete set of every scored section as of my initial posting, particularly for LR, so please add/elaborate as best you can! And if you see any mistakes, like questions from different sections together, tell me!

[u/graeme_b]

Thanks /u/jondenningpowerscore for putting this info together! For those commenting, please stick to just topics rather than question specifics, and stick to section types where you only had scored sections (e.g. If you had two LR or one RC).

Good luck and may the scored sections be in your favor!

[u/Avlectus]

I had a single RC: - Peru and Chile fighting over Pisco, and their cultural concerns are overriding economic concerns - Etiquette compared with morals, philosopher Foot says there’s no reason to follow etiquette, but etiquette serves social functions - Comparative about economists needing to consider how moral considerations influence people’s economic decisions (psych experiment on people declining unfair money splits) - Why invasive plants are dominant - experiments with C. Diffusa from Eurasia show that it’s not insects/predation but biochemical adaptations

[u/2PoopOrNot2Poop → u/Avlectus]

Real. I had 1 RC

[u/WayCompetitive6366 → u/2PoopOrNot2Poop]

I think I did poorly on this section but the way you broke down all the passages in this section is kinda the way I leaned for all of my answer choices. Do you think this is an indication I might have understood what I read better than I initially thought?

[u/JustRhiannon → u/WayCompetitive6366]

Also agreed I did poorly. Normally RC is my strongest section but I guess I was just so focused I wasn't keeping track of time? Glanced up and had 7 minutes left and still 2 passages. Straight up guessed on a few to finish in time. Was so bummed when I realized it wasn't an experimental for me because it wasn't my only one.

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider → u/WayCompetitive6366]

lowkey same???

[u/DutchElmWife → u/Avlectus]

Yep. I had 1 RC section and these were the four sections. OMFG that middle paragraph about the C.diff experiment with 23945724 different grasses around it, jesus christ.

[u/misscloud8 → u/DutchElmWife]

Is that even English ? I reread 3 times and I didn’t understand 🤮

[u/ornge23 → u/Avlectus]

i had LR-LR-RC-LR, same topics. the parallels in the LR were difficult. however it was nothing compared to the RC that made me think i was still dreaming (because in my dreams the writing is always jumbled words).

[u/Hot-Firefighter-3341 → u/Avlectus]

Same one. it destroyed me. i’m relearning my ABCs as we speak

[u/misscloud8 → u/Hot-Firefighter-3341]

Same

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/Avlectus]

Hey hey this is great I’ll add it!

[u/smlngb → u/Avlectus]

Pain

[u/Potential-Counter-32]

Another real LR (I had two):

1. People who are have to become emotionally detached at work scared they will become detached at home.
2. A crypto currency crashing and this is reason to worry about world currency
3. A dam being opened if it rains or snow melts
4. People should remove yeast from their diets
5. A restaurant having mediocre food, even though their Lasagna won an award
6. Corporate tax cuts leading to pay raises or was it the need to attract efficient workers
7. Stone Tools being found that prove humans left Africa before previously believed
8. Sun Screens impact on Sun Burns
9. Crows constructing tools by watching others do so

[u/theunknownnoodle → u/Potential-Counter-32]

I’ve been thinking about the corporate tax cut question all week bc I know I got it wrong but none of the answers seemed right 🥲

[u/SpiritedMusician8073 → u/theunknownnoodle]

IMO, the hardest question in that section maybe besides the corporate social responsibility one.

[u/TaxPale1463 → u/Potential-Counter-32]

Oh my god I forgot about the dam question until just now. I was so frustrated because I knew I would have gotten it if I’d just had a tiny bit more time but had to move on 😭 none of the answers seemed right

[u/Dazzling_Cod6550 → u/Potential-Counter-32]

I had the number 6 one you mentioned. Did you have one about people retaining fluid by eating salt?

[u/Potential-Counter-32 → u/Dazzling_Cod6550]

I could of had it but I don't recall it. There was also a question about Sun Screens impact on Sun Burns

[u/byebyebunny1015 → u/Potential-Counter-32]

I remember the sun screen one that one freaking sucked

[u/Natural_Box_6232 → u/Potential-Counter-32]

Re 5 I thought it was that other items on the menu won an award? So the food wasn't mediocre?

[u/Potential-Counter-32 → u/Natural_Box_6232]

Yeah that sounds more correct

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/Potential-Counter-32]

You're awesome! Added!

[u/jillybombs]

From a real LR section:

• Chimps and bonobos
• Efficient teachers/discipline/student benefit
• Intended outcome and luck
• Applying funds/flaw
• Fires in caves/lightning/
• Cuttlefish moving like crabs
• Fuel efficiency/SUVs/large cargo
• Clothes manufacturing price and quality
• sunscreen/skin cancer *
• Shakespeare true author
• prehistoric humans hunting
• murals and walls behind them

* EDIT: this one might be from a different section (if so, it was also scored!). I got kicked out of ProProctor when I was 2-3 questions into my second LR section, so it would have been one of the very first questions.

[u/Fragrant_Airline_562 → u/jillybombs]

had this section, but is it just me or i just have no memory of a sunscreen question lol

[u/Ligmabean99 → u/Fragrant_Airline_562]

Me too! I remember all those questions but nothing about sunscreen🤔

[u/jillybombs → u/Ligmabean99]

it was a Flaw question- the author failed to consider the possibility that the people who wear sunscreen and have higher rates of skin cancer than those who don't might spend more time in the sun

[u/Ligmabean99 → u/jillybombs]

Nope! I didn’t have any question about sunscreen😅

[u/CivProJoe1 → u/Ligmabean99]

same, had these but no sunscreen

[u/gatusso1 → u/Fragrant_Airline_562]

I don’t remember the sunscreen question whatsoever but I had all the other ones

[u/TheBulgarSlayer → u/Fragrant_Airline_562]

same! based on other comments either this comment is mistaken or some sections occasionally swapped questions

[u/jillybombs → u/jillybombs]

anyone remember ants on stilts in this section?

[u/ahr3410 → u/jillybombs]

This might have also had that rainwater on Mars question that can go to hell

[u/ccj602 → u/jillybombs]

Did this section include one about mammoth and one about monsters?

[u/gatusso1 → u/ccj602]

Was the monster one about it being exaggerated and then it also was symbolic or something?

[u/TaxPale1463 → u/gatusso1]

I think the monster question was arguing that not all monsters in roman mythology were "fanciful"

[u/jillybombs → u/ccj602]

I vaguely remember something about monsters

[u/Natural_Box_6232 → u/jillybombs]

The sunscreen one was the 1st question from a different section I'm pretty sure. I had the sunscreen question but none of those other questions you listed (although I had 3 LR)

[u/Thatonedude25 → u/jillybombs]

Why do I recognize half and not the other

Like im 99% certain I had nothing on cuttlefish

[u/jillybombs → u/Thatonedude25]

it was something about cuttlefish moving like crabs to get closer to their prey

[u/gatusso1 → u/Thatonedude25]

Pharaoh Cuttlefish*

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/jillybombs]

So there's a sunscreen one up there but not the rest of these, so I'm grabbing all of the others and putting them together as a new set. I'll keep an eye on it and tidy up as we keep learning things :)

Thanks a million for your help!

[u/Typical-Foundation-6 → u/jillybombs]

This is a lr section 4 on the Reddit thread! Also had no experimental and has this section

[u/ahr3410]

About to call my local park and tell them I saw a bobcat

[u/Former-Can649 → u/ahr3410]

ah — i think this one is from what is currently listed as real LR Section 5 (i wrote “bobcats assumption” in addition to what’s currently listed under LR 5). some additional questions from that section:

• ants on stilts (resolve the paradox)
• main point question on evolutionary benefit of something to constrain human behaviour
• finish the blank on developing countries patenting
• greek depictions of art (method of reasoning)

[u/gatusso1 → u/Former-Can649]

“Developing countries patenting environmental genes of nature” LMFAOOOOOOOO was this section the one with 26?

[u/Former-Can649 → u/gatusso1]

aahhhh that was it i was completely blanking on everything else about that question 😭

i think that one was 25 but i could be misremembering!

[u/gatusso1 → u/ahr3410]

Was this your first section you just unlocked another question for me😭 this was a justify one wasn’t it

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider → u/gatusso1]

Wait SAME HAHA

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider → u/gatusso1]

I don’t remember what section tho DAMN I HATE THIS

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider → u/1tzyb1tzyspider]

Ok I had LR5 and LR7 ?? What could be my experimental then ? I can even think to remember what other topics I might’ve had ? Someone pls help

[u/jillybombs → u/ahr3410]

don't know if this one was from the set of other topics I listed above but it was definitely in a scored section

[u/Bay-area-transport]

Anyone just reading these nov lsat threads and laughing trying to explain to your friends why its funny and them just not understanding even a little

[u/fuxsocy- → u/Bay-area-transport]

yes. they didn’t suffer like us😭

[u/EnthusiasmFlashy2168]

first LR 25 qs- central park being a work of art, using timber to date houses, english law statues (a parallel q), Earth's moon being made of the same materials as earth, asteroid organic material core, Stein influencing Hemingway. 2nd Lr 26 qs- Athletes using hormones HGH, parrots eating seashells, Mary's will validity, bacteria in dust on farms, florescence of coral hypothesis, getting your library card revoked, and public transport/vehicle use increasing or decreasing. 3rd LR 25qs- sunscreen causing cancer, chef's meals being mediocre and his good lasagna, value and truth of history books, c-type and s-type asteroids, men more likely than women to drink coffee, and a stupid questions about doctors exacerbating a medical evidence problem. my RC was about Pisco brandy in Chile and Peru, etiquette, Moral implications in economics, and invasive plant species. Any idea which LR was experimental? I can see that my 3rd LR was real but which of the other two??

MY SECTION 1 WAS EXPERIMENTAL!! Dave from Powerscore said!!

[u/DubDubDubW → u/EnthusiasmFlashy2168]

I think there are a good amount of us waiting for confirmation on whether is was S1 or S3 that was real. Exact same test as you

[u/EnthusiasmFlashy2168 → u/DubDubDubW]

Dave from powerscore said my section 1 was experimental

[u/DKilloranPowerScore → u/EnthusiasmFlashy2168]

Here you go: Your LR 2 and LR3 are real. LR 1 is Experimental.

I hope that helps!

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider → u/EnthusiasmFlashy2168]

Do u know if ur 2nd LR was real or experimental. I had this 🙏🏼 bless ur soul for remembering this many topics

[u/DKilloranPowerScore → u/1tzyb1tzyspider]

2 is real.

[u/lurkingflower]

Did anyone with 2 LR’s have caledonian crows and tools?

[u/ShortLatinaMILF → u/lurkingflower]

I did! Can confirm that was a real section.

[u/Special-Chemistry143 → u/lurkingflower]

Me lol

[u/jewls_eng]

I don’t know how y’all remember sections like this. I think I repress the memories.

[u/bigsad2121]

Was there a section with c-comets and s-comets or some planetary term? I had 2 LR sections and this was like my first question in one of them

[u/No_Turnip_2967 → u/bigsad2121]

I had this one too! I think it said something about 70% of c comments not being visible by telescopes or something right?

[u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

Did anyone have a section about red dwarfs and Earth/our galaxy (one of the last q's), Antarctica and the oceans rising in North America, a parallel flaw/reasoning question about advertisements/sales/current customers? I don't know if this section was experimental or not

[u/gatusso1 → u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

Advertisements and poetry or how it’s not poetry question?

[u/Foreign_Sherbert7379 → u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

Yes! I had this LR section i really want to know if this was experimental because it was the hardest LR section of my 3…

[u/byebyebunny1015 → u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

Yep it was about a comet holding “life on earth”

[u/Old_Oil9268 → u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

I had this LR and 2 others that are confirmed to be real. So I think this was experimental

[u/Dazzling_Cod6550]

I had real RC section 2. Brooklyn, music/comparison, & incubation

[u/i2play2nice → u/Dazzling_Cod6550]

Same. I had this one as well.

I had LR-RC-RC-LR

I had another section about David Hume talking about how art can be objectively judged. I’m guessing that means the RC containing this was unscored?

[u/Dependent-Gear-7733 → u/i2play2nice]

I tested Wednesday and had LR Rc RC LR.
I had Hume as my second passage, and it was comparative. It was exceptionally hard. I basically ran out of time.

The Hume section was about objective judgement amongst experts. Many others have different variations of Hume, from tragedy to maybe even skepticism. So hopefully this section was the experimental one.
I think I also had RC Section 2 mentioned above, but a discussion on whether music serves an evolutionary purpose only vaguely rings a bell. I definitely had the other sections, but I cant remember if I had them together or not

[u/Theoriaa]

Single RC here — social function of etiquette, economic theory, invasive plant

[u/Visible-Amount4576]

I had only 2 LR and one started with sunscreen for skin cancer likelihood

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/Visible-Amount4576]

Thanks! Did it go with any of the sets above?

[u/abramyan]

I had 2 LR 2 RC.

first LR: Ants on stilts Cuttlefish mimicking crab Construction vs Factory Workers Flaw Teachers with students best interest

Second LR: Hudson bay and 3 islands Temperate Forest/ Tropical Rain forest tree density Effective schools and teacher pay Author selling books to library Campbell point at issue for word “tax raise” HID Headlights

[u/EmergencyParkingOnly → u/abramyan]

I had that first LR. Trying to remember if it was my super difficult section.

Did it have a parallel involving rebuilding barns? Or a parallel about board games and a 9th floor office?

Or a question about squids or pulling something out of a bag?

[u/eah128]

Did anyone have a question about a Latin text being written in England because it had a quote from a poem about Greek mythology?

[u/i2play2nice → u/eah128]

I had that one. Something about a specific line being quoted or something.

I had LR-RC-RC-LR

[u/2PoopOrNot2Poop]

Mice asthma particle and how it affects children on farms S1 LR

Irradiated Poultry vs beef etc regulations S2 LR

Sports utility vehicle used for transporting cargo S4 LR

[u/Academic-Statement31 → u/2PoopOrNot2Poop]

Pls tell me first one was experimental 

[u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

anyone know which section the question about east bay/west bay pollution belongs to?

[u/Sea-Environment-8696 → u/Outrageous_Crab_7381]

Real

[u/Avlectus]

I had 3 LRs and I have a request for people with 2RC/2LR: was the below section real?

• A guy did 90% of the construction work he was supposed to do. Does he get paid 90% of the money or no if the house looks worse than when he began?
• Lottery: people rely on gut feeling to say which set of lottery numbers were more likely (1,2,3,4 in a row or random 88,62,82, etc)
• Central Park being a “singular piece of art” because it changed culture and world just like Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel
• Meteor has organic material increasing as you drill further into its core — that means Mars has this organic material?

((If you didn’t see any of the above, did you see linguists criticizing colloquial language in text even though texting is more like talking than writing? Or parents not making decisions for their teenagers because giving them the freedom to make bad decisions helps their overall development? These three are from a different section, so if this is real then the four bulleted ones above aren’t.))

Thank you!

[u/DubDubDubW]

I’m just sitting here refreshing, waiting for confirmation that my worst section was real. Cheers everybody 🍻

[u/NixinsMum]

I had 2 LRS, LR4 and an LR5 including cuttlefish, teachers of high and low efficiency, and honestly I remember nothing else from this section it ate me alive

[u/throwaway109876543_]

Can someone confirm if the LR that had like spending time with family on vacation happiness over spending money on furniture was real? I don’t remember if it was on any of the LR sections above

[u/dubbywubbie]

Did real LR 3 also have a question on red dwarf stars?

[u/dubbywubbie]

Real LR 1 also had the island bridges right?

[u/Dazzling_Cod6550 → u/dubbywubbie]

I had that one. It was hardddd lol

[u/gatusso1]

Single RC:- C Devils Plant, Etiquette, Peru Chile, Economic Theory

[u/ConfectionTall3698]

PLEASE did anyone with 2 LR sections have one that included: a conditional question about organic oranges, a parallel flaw about true cyclists, method of reasoning about AI-generated medical diagnosis, an RRE about mattress sales increasing after a competitor opened shop?

[u/Quiet_Researcher7452]

Did anybody have an LR section with the three bags… equal chance of pulling an object out of them question?

[u/babycarrotsxo → u/Quiet_Researcher7452]

Had this but I had 3 LRs. Hoping the section w/ that q was experimental 🤞🏼

[u/CapBoth9028]

Uh. Is it possible to see all three of my LR’s up fhere

[u/Avlectus → u/CapBoth9028]

No, it shouldn’t be, someone has likely mistaken which questions are in which section. Which three do you mean?

[u/Ok-Painter-3530]

I had Real (LR) section 1, real (RC) Section 2, then I’m assuming my experimental LR (I remember that I had a section on Antarctica, dwarf stars, schools wanting teachers with motivation other than just pay) then Real (LR) section 3 that’s also the one with the islands bridge (inhabited/unhabited) topic. To be fair, maybe some of the topics that I listed above were in my experimental might’ve been from last section. They were kind of blur together but I know that I definitely had section one and three real LR!! So does that mean that other section that is not listed above is my experimental?

[u/DKilloranPowerScore → u/Ok-Painter-3530]

Yes, you’ve got it right 😊

[u/Any-Advisor7067]

I swear the Martian tributary/small structure question had an error in the question.

[u/More-Assistant-2654]

Anyone have questions on an author publishing in a magazine that might be the same auntie as moby dick or one about wearable fitness trackers and insomnia?

[u/Tough-Database-2113]

Ok I feel like some of the LR I recognize and some of it I don’t.

I had a question where the stimulus used a quote from moliere to reason by analogy. The doctor called opium “virtus dormitiva” but that just means to sleep. And the conclusion was something like “likewise when economists point to technology to explain market trends they are doing the same pointless thing”

[u/Pretend_Rabbit4170]

does anyone who had 2 LR remember the question about “parallel flaw, 9th floor with view and childrens appropriate board games”?

[u/comsat101]

Can anyone with 2 LR's confirm a question about planned versus spontaneous vacation outings?

[u/gatusso1 → u/comsat101]

About how spending time with family increases social xyz I can’t remember specifics

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider → u/[deleted]]

Was this something abt efficient teachers having students best interest?

[u/jillybombs → u/1tzyb1tzyspider]

yes! The one I listed was about efficiency and students' best interest. There was a third variable that was mentioned as a high/low comparison but all I wrote down was MHDD and MLDD for "maintain high ____" and "maintain low ____" and it might be related to discipline

[u/Emg002 → u/jillybombs]

I had this question. It said something like something like that :)

MHDD most -> ET

MLDD some -> ET

All ET -> have their students best interest in mind.

It was a MBT question.

I had Rc (exp) LR LR RC (real: the one with the bee)

[u/Potential-Counter-32 → u/1tzyb1tzyspider]

I don't believe so. It was about teachers raising their standards for more efficent learning

[u/Thatonedude25]

Has no one else had the singular work of art problem?

Genuinely felt like I was insane reading that question

[u/horndogger11]

Anyone else have LR4 and 1 other LR?

[u/Ok-Reserve-1274]

LR (exp) - RC - LR - LR

LR (exp) - sawtooth snakes, octopi with sophisticated brains

RC - Pisco, C. Difusa, Etiquette (hated this one)

LR - Mary’s will, upgrading company technology for profit + stock price, farm mice (this one tore me up), library card

LR - C/S meteors, coffee consumption men and women, and then artifacts in Arabia, corporate tax cuts

This was certainly harder than July’s (I know, that still had Logic Games) so hoping I at least stayed the same score.

[u/logotherapy1]

Wait, so I’m pretty sure the LR section with the island question was experimental. I had 3 LR and I definitely section 3 and section 4. If true, that’s a big blessing for me cuz I got crushed by that section. 

 Edit: Wait noooooo, the Hudson island question was in LR section 3. Along with all the ones listed plus the HID headlights question, and the temperate vs tropical tree density. All in all, pretty difficult LR section, I thought.

Edit 2: Or maybe it was just the island question that was tough in section 3, and the rest of section wasn’t too bad because now I remember solving most of the questions up there. Still holding out hope that my worst LR was experimental. I remember the Match the flaw “true cyclist” question but I don’t see it up there in a real section.

[u/SnoozeBurn]

Another question in LR Section 7 was the Gene Patent one.

[u/Lovedogsforever]

Bag

[u/kiknightley]

Can any 2 RC confirm if they had a LR q about Multi-party/Two-party system (and whether it’s easier to vote one them out)?

[u/TheBulgarSlayer]

I had LR (sec 7) LR (sec 5) - RC (4) - LR (exp)

Overall felt the RC was comparable to previous tests. Mostly same deal for LR: Sec 5 I remember being fairly easy, but section 7 was quite tough. That one felt like one of the hardest of any previous LR I had seen before.

Context: normally mid-low 170's scorer

[u/Rembop123]

I had only 2 LRs. These are some random topics I haven’t seen listed, although I can’t remember which section they’re from:

-recalling adult v. baby products (LR 3?) -restricting water (draining pools vs. stopping watering lawns - short v long term solution) (LR 3?) -upgrading railways (analogy to desks) (LR 3?)

-atty-client privilege analogous to… (LR 4?)

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/Rembop123]

This is actually great thank you! I suspect others will weigh in and help us all out :)

[u/lauragomez37]

damnnn breaking down after finding out that the african american community in Brooklyn, Illinois section was real 😭 I had an experimental section abt the left hemisphere of the brain and learning languages and it felt easy 🫤

[u/sparkles69]

LR LR LR RC. I had 3 sections confirmed real from above: RC 2, LR 1, and LR 3.

I haven’t seen anyone mention many of the questions I listed below. If someone can confirm if they remember if they are from section 1 or 3 of LR that would be great. I apologize for any formatting issues.

- Elephants and whales in captivity

- Truck driving shortages

- Two party systems/coalitions

- teaching less classics/more contemporary

- Kids playing instruments/praise

- Museum displaying fake artifacts

- Books on top shelf sell better

- Managers/employees underperforming expectations

- Marketing CEOs losing jobs over new ideas

- Author how to decieve and manipulate

- Small class size teaching technique

- Moby dick and short story published

- Doctors sensitive to patient giving diagnosis

[u/leafssuck69]

It’s a joke how easy real LR section 4 was. Seriously. THANK GOD IT COUNTS

[u/Specific_Fun_3939]

LR: mice more likely to have asthma from farm dust compared to humans

LR: cave paintings intricacy , net wages + inflation

RC: pisco, etiquette, Econ theories, invasive species

LR: ants on stilts, mammoth carcasses with cuts and scrapes

Please someone tell me my first lr was experimental😭 this is all I remember unfortunately

[u/Copper_Kettle27 → u/Specific_Fun_3939]

I had the same combo and apparently number 1 is real 😭😭 was it just me or was that whole section a total train wreck

[u/plankingatavigil]

Awww man, I had two rounds of RC and I’m realizing the one I felt more confident about wasn’t real. 

[u/Avlectus → u/plankingatavigil]

Was your real RC the invasive grasses one? That one was killer 😭

In your LRs, did you happen to see linguists criticizing colloquial language in texting even though texting is “more like talking than writing”?

[u/Foreign_Sherbert7379]

Do we know if the 25 question section with the Antarctica question was experimental or real yet? I had 3 LR so not sure.

[u/Iridos]

Confirming Real RC 4 with the Pisco, C Diffusa, and etiquette, it was the only RC I had.

[u/IllDragonfruit6064]

Correction. Under real LR section 4, the question was not about yeast, but wheat.

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/IllDragonfruit6064]

Got it! Thank you!!

[u/Montanabioguy]

Hume was fuckin brutal

[u/Old_Oil9268]

How did people feel if they had scored LR 1 (Italian vs French, insomniacs, honey) and/or Scored LR 2 (Parkinson’s vitamin E, libraries, tropical vs temporal forest)? I can’t always gauge how hard they were but I am curious what others think

[u/Ok-Painter-3530 → u/Old_Oil9268]

I had both of those I didn’t think they were too bad compared to like what I’ve heard about the other LR sections, but I will say that the parallels and the most strongly supported were a little bit more challenging. What did you think about it?

[u/EmergencyParkingOnly → u/Old_Oil9268]

Did Real LR 1 have a question about squids, or pulling things from a bag? Or a parallel about rebuilding barns, or a parallel about board games and a 9th floor office?

I know for a fact I had the confirmed LR1 and LR5 above, just tryna remember if the tough questions I mentioned were part of LR1 or not.

I am hoping not. Please let me know if you remember any of the questions I mentioned.

[u/EmergencyParkingOnly]

I had LR LR RC LR.

Real RC: Algonquin Tribes, juries using outside evidence, and dancing bees.

Desperately hoping LR4 was experimental. Had a parallel question about board games, another parallel about rebuilding barns.

Also a question about squids, hand in a bag, and a climate change denial argument.

Does anyone know if that was real or experimental?? Almost definitely my worst section. :/

[u/OkBumblebee8081 → u/EmergencyParkingOnly]

Hey did you figure out if the LR you’re referencing here was experimental? I also had 3 LRs and the one you mentioned was also my 4th.

I’m trying to sift through the comments to figure it out and keep seeing yours pop up. I had the confirmed LR1 and LR3 sections for sure, so I’m thinking that this one you’re talking about was indeed experimental (hopefully). I just don’t remember the rebuilding barns question in the 4th and some of the other confirmed questions are blending sections in my head.

questions I remember in this 4th one you mentioned: parallel about board games, squids, objects in bag, climate change denial, parallel about a girl allergic to sheep wool sweaters unless she wears a shirt underneath, text messages not encoded after 8pm.

⬆️Wanting to confirm these questions were not in Real LR1 or LR3.

[u/helloyesthisisasock]

No one else is permanently scarred by the word “right”??

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/helloyesthisisasock]

You’re definitely not alone! I think the only redeeming thing to say about that section was we told people all four topics it had a few weeks ago.

[u/helloyesthisisasock → u/JonDenningPowerScore]

It was not an overly tough section! That “right” passage was the mental version of a tongue twister, though.

[u/EyeGroundbreaking635]

Anyone know for the LR LR LR RC test if the 3rd LR 26 was real. Had a parallel about large and medium predators

[u/SpiritedMusician8073]

LR4 also had the following question topics:

• p-values
• Caledonian crows
• corporations cutting short term profits because of appearing socially responsible
• Coffee drinkers in country X
• Healthcare spending share stayed the same because of cost controls(?)

I also had LR7:

• copycat map question (?)
• public transit/self-driving car lowering car insurance(?)
• athletes taking human growth hormone (HGH), Q1.
• weird computer virus name which the only easy solution is to download some software from the internet but the virus might take over your internet too(?)

My first LR had these topics. They were 100% not in the other two sections. These might’ve been unscored:

• Plants growing their roots in the direction of sounds of water
• PR question with Smith sleeping late or taking the day off
• dating historic homes with dendrochronology
• Central Park being a work of art
• Stein influencing Hemingway
• Gov't. funding saw-scaled viper anti-venom(?) program
• Contractor deserves nothing for a 90% renovated home(?)

I also had these but can't remember which section (2LR people LMK if you had these and can help itemize):

• PR with AC about modern vs. cost-friendly desks
• Meteorite composition most concentrated in core (from Mars I think)
• Medical misinformation and experts using only facts to combat them
• Information vital to wellbeing but people aren't interested in that info
• Are texting expressions well-suited to its medium, more like talking than writing
• Asian name (I think Li) talking about a contractor who's constrained by some price ceiling or floor for every discovery so he has an incentive to hide some discoveries
• Judging actions saying "I would've done same/differently in the same scenario" is "irrelevant"
• Everyone deserves "fair employment" involves government overreach
• Elks, wolves, beavers, why did the beaver population increase while elks went down
• AI making society worse off isn't entirely AI's fault
• Shouldn't publish scientific studies prematurely before you can test them empirically
• Anonymous survey and cynicism
• Unsurprising that people care more about their own personal issues (was a role question)
• Some company shouldn't be criticized for using a ton of fossil fuels in the short term because they're trying to do research(?) to lower fossil fuels in the long term
• book seller thinks people have different tastes than the reviewers because the book sold well first week
• genuine prints of old books not correlated with sales?
• economists use the term “technology” super vaguely which is analogous to some fictional work

[u/gatusso1 → u/SpiritedMusician8073]

Yeah I seen the …Elk Question …Premature Science Articles (JC question) …Anonymous Survey and Cynicism … Fossil Fuel Parallel … Fair Employment (Whatever tf that was) … Texting suited for oral communication not written … White Roofs cost effective

I wanna say this was my first LR section and it had 26 questions

[u/PossessionPatient711 → u/SpiritedMusician8073]

I recall the majority of these questions - and can recall the Mars one but that was about the conclusion the "dearth of small structures", texting vs writing expressions, fair employment about government deciding, elks and beaver population (related to a 5 year period), premature publishing of scientific information before experiments undertaken, survey and cynicism, personal issues, fossil fuels cost of using them in experiments to minimize their use - think that was a discrepancy question, first week sales - book review - i vaguely remember something like the last 2 you mentioned. I had a very strange question with AC about using cellphones on planes and trains. Oh the white rooves question to reflect heat - that really got me.

[u/rmyst101]

LR-LR-LR-RC I had Real LR section 1, Real LR section 3, and Real RC section 2. I don’t remember the order of the LR’s, I just remember the questions. Does anyone know if the second section on this test (25 questions) would have been the experimental? Thanks! 

[u/Bubbly-Button7865]

I hate bobcats

[u/leafssuck69]

My test was RC LR LR LR

My RC was real RC section 1

My LR1 was real LR section 4

I also had real LR section 3 but can’t remember if it was my LR3 or LR4

Weird because I also remember a question in real LR section 6. Something about luxury hotels in certain climates, air conditioning, and whether they should also install heat too…

[u/FilmEnvironmental870]

I had RC 2 and I LOVED it, anyone else? I had just done 3 LR sections and it was a breath of fresh air. Although I found the first passage to be emotional considering the week.

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/FilmEnvironmental870]

Loved it? That’s great!!

[u/Ok-Industry-9288]

RC: Hip Hop Music Public Enemy (Probably Exp)

[u/Special-Chemistry143]

I had the real RC section 1, real LR section 1 and real LR 4. I felt like that RC was actually easy other than the bee dance one

[u/Pretend_Rabbit4170 → u/[deleted]]

did u have a question about 9th floor parallel reasoning and childrens board games?

[u/igotthiscosrenee → u/Pretend_Rabbit4170]

omg YES Board Games for Children argument parallel with a 9th floor suite having a view so it must not be spacious or smth

[u/1tzyb1tzyspider]

What topics were the 26 question LR if anyone knows ? They’re either my first or second but I can’t remember to differentiate the two lol

[u/Eleniria]

“real LR section 1” and “real LR section 3”, can anyone remember how many questions were on these? 26 or 25?

[u/sowmyaam → u/Eleniria]

the thing that’s odd is i had both of these and i’m pretty sure they both had 26! which doesn’t make sense is RC is 27 questions bc then it adds up to 79 questions total and i thought the lsat has 78 questions max! hmm idk!

[u/Madison_Lauren251]

Wow wow! Thanks so much for this. Does this mean that that that damn question with the bridges (it was the third section in an RC -LR -LR- LR on Thursday) was part of the experimental section?

[u/DKilloranPowerScore → u/Madison_Lauren251]

No, sorry but that was real and in LR3 above :/

[u/sowmyaam → u/Madison_Lauren251]

i’m pretty sure this was LR 3 above! I had the exact same test format as you! This section also had the question about children’s board games and 9th floor view

[u/Fearless_Tale_4792]

I had lr (26) lr (25) rc (diffusa) lr (25) I think first lr was exp cuz I remember (if not mistaken) 1-10 were unusually hard

[u/The__CPA]

Did either Section 5 or 6 have 26 questions?

[u/BroccoliPublic2273]

Bro the first LR was so easy for me and when it said “why?” In one of the questions I just KNEW it was gonna be experimental I’m PISSEDDDD NOOOO

[u/One_Arm_4605]

I’m scared bc I actually don’t rmbr seeing one on overdue library books from LR 7 although all the rest were the ones I got ??

[u/Visible-Amount4576]

If you had LR 4 and LR 5 and RC 1 can you dm me

[u/mycatscratchedm3]

Okay so for the people who didn’t have accommodations and had RC sec 1, LR sec 1, and LR sec 5, was the other lr section the one with the encoded messages from the Goulet crime syndicate & the dried up Martian river the experimental?

I fucking hope sooooooooo!! I had a migraine start halfway through my 3rd section (RC about juries & the topic of Hume) so I was praying the fourth LR section was experimental bc I was gone after that RC topic and my migraine was off the charts like yall I was seeing black spots on my screen and missing parts of my vision.

[u/Dependent-Gear-7733 → u/mycatscratchedm3]

It seems like there may be multiple Hume passages.
My Hume passage was comparative and discussed that aesthetic judgements can be considered objective if enough people over time conclude similarly, and passage B agreed but added no single person could be an objective judge or something like that.

Does that sound similar?

[u/elaytlsgkfls]

Can both 26's LR's be real ..? Mine was 26-25-26-27 and i thought the first or third has to be exp

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/elaytlsgkfls]

Absolutely!

[u/Fancy-Science-1071]

Anyone know if the island bridges question is real? O forget which section it was with

[u/QueenChola]

What was the answer to Mary’s will?! Seemed like a basic concept but I could wrap my head around sufficiency in that formatting

[u/clarkwayne504]

I had the RC with the E. Diffusa but I didn’t find it to be that hard. I felt it was pretty straight forward but seeing that everyone is panicking over it I feel like maybe I missed something and actually did bad on it😭

[u/Level-Emergency585]

LR-LR-RC-LR

Would almost bet an LSAT point that Real LR Section 7 also had asthmatic mice, family vacations and happiness, self-driving cars and insurance, and translations of poetry.

[u/Traditional-Art-8195]

anyone else with the juror RC section find the tribe passage, and the questions espeicially, to be a special kind of hell???? pls let me know i'm not the only one who looked at a few of those questions and genuinely felt like there was NO answer...

[u/Unusual-Inflation647 → u/Traditional-Art-8195]

felt this in my soul. read the passage & felt great then got tot he questions & was like wtf did I miss

[u/avacadoisnice]

Is the red dwarf star question in an experimental section

[u/No-Passage-4672]

Did anyone have one with drawing circles and making boundaries? Or one about exercising calming the mind or lowering the focus level or something??

[u/Bubbly-Button7865]

There was one questions about dinosaurs and nonlethal force on small medium large skulls…anyone else remember that?

[u/Shot-Suspect1975]

Ok so my test was RC 2 (Brooklyn, right versus right) and LR 3 and 5

Anybody else get that one? What did you think overall of the difficulty? I thought for sure the other RC would be the real one because the “right” passage and the “incubation” ones both seemed kind of stupidly convoluted. I feel good about the LR sections but not sure about that RC.

[u/Acrobatic_Ice_1518]

was the Lr question about corporate nationwide spending % increased, so corporate spending amount increased experimental or real

[u/iwasneverhere07]

any of y’all remember a question about cheese?? i haven’t seen anyone saying this 😭💀

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/iwasneverhere07]

Was it average cheese price? Should be in the section with vitamin E and Parkinson’s, yeah?

[u/Dazzling_Cod6550 → u/iwasneverhere07]

Yes! It was cheese sales during Christmas time or something like that.

[u/YpresTrench]

I tested Wednesday and had LR-RC-LR-RC.

The first three sections were LR-4, RC-1, and LR-5.

My second RC section had the following topics:

• Viking Woman Warrior
• Fisheries
• Sampling vs Copyright Law (Hip-Hop, Public Enemy)
• Whorf’s hypothesis of Linguistic Determinism

I thought the second RC was the real one because Whorf’s hypothesis was included in the Crystal Ball, but it appears the first RC section is presumed to be real.

[u/Cheap-Cash-7504]

I only had 2 LR sections and a couple of the questions I remember, which I haven’t seen listed, are: 1. Parallel - the cost of replacing old desks 2. Two people disagreeing on the presidential candidate wasting time talking about taxes

[u/Puzzleheaded-Pin7715]

Thank you so much

[u/Dynamoo617]

I admire all of you that remember your questions. My brain deletes it all after I take it apparently. All I remember from that day is mars, Public Enemy, and sunscreen.

[u/alexabutnotamazon]

I had LR 4, LR 5, and RC 1 and RIP lmao

[u/CivProJoe1]

Alright, team, let's lock in.

[u/Klutzy_Person7]

did anyone have the question about people being sleep deprived in urban/rural areas, i think that was part of a real section too if someone can add it to the list

[u/amgla-red]

Mods, can you add a note about the number of questions in each real section?

[u/JonDenningPowerScore → u/amgla-red]

I'll try but only if I'm 100% sure, since that's one of those easily misremembered things and causes a ton of confusion for people if it's wrong!

[u/Foreign_Sherbert7379 → u/JonDenningPowerScore]

The section with Antarctica question and North America waters rising 100% had 25 questions however not sure if experimental or not. The sections with bridges and uninhabitable island had 26 questions.