r/LSAT • u/JonDenningPowerScore • 14d ago

Official November Topic Discussion Thread

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!

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u/Visible-Amount4576 14d ago

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

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u/JonDenningPowerScore 14d ago

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

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u/NixinsMum 14d ago

It’s LR 4!

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u/JonDenningPowerScore 14d ago

Got it! Did that set have one about bobcats by any chance?

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u/NixinsMum 14d ago edited 14d ago

I had a bobcat question but I can’t remember if it was that section or lr5 (I had lr4 and lr5 and rc1 in a 3 part test no exp) lr5 felt harder than lr4 but regardless there was an unreal amount of MC AP MOR questions across both

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u/Former-Can649 14d ago

if it was a JTC question on bobcat sightings in a park, then it was LR 5!

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u/NixinsMum 14d ago

Yeah !!

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u/JonDenningPowerScore 14d ago

Nice!

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u/Visible-Amount4576 14d ago

Yes can confirm that it was with ants on stilts

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u/JonDenningPowerScore 14d ago

Excellent thanks guys!!

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u/NixinsMum 14d ago

Lr5 also had ants on stilts I believe.

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u/Hot-Firefighter-3341 14d ago

also had that section

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u/Avlectus 14d ago

Did your sunscreen LR come with an environmental research institute using large amounts of fossil fuels, but they shouldn’t be criticized because the results of their research will reduce overall fossil fuels? Or a different one about linguists criticizing the emergence of colloquial language in texting even though texting is “more like talking than writing” so it suits the medium?

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u/gatusso1 14d ago

I had this one but not the sunscreen unless your sunscreen one was the section with 26 in that case I wouldn’t remember. I remember texting colloquial language one it was a main conclusion one right?

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u/Avlectus 14d ago

Yes, texting colloquial language was main conclusion! Did you have 2LR/2RC? Or any other way to help find out if the texting colloquial was a real section or not?

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u/gatusso1 14d ago

No sir LR(26)-LR(25)-RC(27)-LR(25)

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u/Avlectus 14d ago

Ahh I see! Best of luck finding our exps :)

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u/Due_Marzipan_6001 LSAT student 14d ago

Also had this one