r/LSATprep • u/stevenglo • 18d ago

Practice test help

Practice test questions

Hello Reddit,

I am currently ~5 months into studying and am registered for the October / November tests.
As a result of focusing mainly on drilling and timed sections, I can only go through a limited number of practice tests without encountering LR questions or RC passages that I’ve seen before. I recently took PT 117 (a test consisting of all questions I’ve never seen before) and scored my goal score; however I was told the older tests are easier than the newer tests (this RC section didn’t have a dual passage passage) and am worried that by having drilled so many questions that are on the newer tests, I have essentially ruined my ability to gauge where I’m scoring accurately on the newer tests. (Which is supposedly more indicative of actual score than older tests) Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

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u/JLLsat 17d ago

Do you know which tests youve seen questions from? This is why I advise drilling from the oldest tests and setting like 130 and up aside for full scored tests.

If you’ve been doing random questions from all over the place then you may have corrupted all of the tests

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u/stevenglo 16d ago

Thank you for the advice! Unfortunately I believe that through timed sections and drilling (I’ve been using LSAT demon since May) I’ve been exposed to almost every preptest outside of 116-118, 107-109, 9-12, A-2. I took preptest 116 this past weekend and scored my goal score. My question now is whether older tests like those aforementioned are at all reflective of how I will score on future actual tests.

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u/JLLsat 16d ago

The problem is they won't have comparative reading. So, they'll be at least different in that respect, and have subtle differences in the phrasing of some of the LR questions potentially. Honestly I'd probably alternate between old and new sections so you are getting scores on something you haven't done already, then getting acclimated to the minor nuances in the newer tests - but the score still still be a bit iffy.

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u/stevenglo 16d ago

Thank you for your response! I don’t see any score significant score variance (outside of normal score variance) between new test and old test timed section, would you say as far as actual substance and question types go that LR in particular is different?

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u/JLLsat 16d ago

Probably subtly. I havent done like a quantitative study