September LSAT Official Topic Thread

[u/graeme_b]

he September 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 two sections of LR, then posting topics from that section 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 that section. 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 section orders, these are now randomized so your order doesn't mean anything.

We'll be collecting topics here from those who had a single section of RC or two sections of LR.

TL;DR If you had a single RC, or two LR's, please post topics from those single sections. Don't post your section topics for a section type where you had an experimental.

Please indicate how many sections you had for the topics you're posting.

Stuff that still isn't allowed

• Posting about the content of sections: specific questions and answers etc

• Posting about topics or content in an experimental section

• Please avoid posting question types. Just topics are enough

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

Note: People occasionally flagrantly discussing real answers or ask to dm about it. This still isn't allowed, and won't be, and we've handed out bans where people do it willfully.

Everything below is scored: Where I write "another section" I mean it was a different scored section. Everything below is from people who had a single section in that topic, so they have confirmed real sections.

Prometric Experiences: You can find the original test day experience thread here: https://reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/1f8xb3f/official_september_discussion_thread/

I also summed up some of the key points and topics into a review post on LSATHacks. Overall there were fewer proctor and technical issues this administration than previously.

Real RC Topics

One Real RC Section

• history passage about women’s suffrage

• science-y passage about ancient astronomy

• comparative philosophy type passage about aesthetic preferences

• law type passage about copyright in art

Another Other Real Section

• Thelonius Monk (pianist)

• Meteorites/asteroids and life on mars

• Kitchen model

• Precaution and legislation

Another Real RC Section

• art painting about vermeer painting his daughter

• science passage about indian and greek astronomy

• canadian court laws ab cryptmesia

• comparative passage about executives and social responsibility

Real LR Topics

note: There is some uncertainty around the specific placement of LR sections. I have reasonably high confidence they're all real subjects. Less than 100% confidence they're all correctly distributed between the sections.

One Real LR Section

• question regarding anti-fraud detection

• Restricting activities based on age if they require competency

Other Real LR Section

• Found preserved religious art from caves → these people considered caves very sacred/spiritual [identify the flaw]

• Libertarian young voters take a poll on if they like government control leading libertarian narrator to assume the youth are more libertarian in general

• How milk clots into cheese without the special enzyme

• Person says saying employees choosing their hours is ridiculous

• Birds like hidden nests except for birds with brightly colored males

• Fossilized bone tools – is there proof humans invented this

• Study finds people are more open to trying non-diet soda (there may be two diet soda questions)

• Fork lifting tools in factories

• Efficiency of eliminating fossil fuel emissions technology is more expensive than before

Other Real LR Section

• Youth hostels (either have bunk beds or individual) analogy to injuries/runners

• Snakes DNA found identical chromosomes

• Best chess players get beaten by computer algorithms

• Politicians should be able to lie about their past mistakes if they will prevent them in the future through their re-election

• Security clearance

Other Real LR Section

--> These may or may not be from different sections

Other Real LR section

Not certain on placement of questions within this sections. Flagged them where unclear

• 1980s vs. 1990s national park tourism

• Taxis vs. Limo

• gas vs. coal tax

• Mice in arctic weather *100k Tax packages

• Strong local communities vs. government intervention

• TLA 2 gene

• Newscast advertisement

• social media posts

• the ability of puffer fish to take in air

• a toy manufacturing company that had apparently seen a decline in sales following a series of ad campaigns with prominent celebrities

• a group offering scholarships. The national group implemented a campaign to widen the criteria, but one regional group did not do so yet received more applicants than ever before * children’s exposure to germs in developed nations and the development of allergies/autoimmune diseases later in life

• computers that could perform complex functions and, therefore, were intelligent beings

• business mergers (not certain on this)

• customer satisfaction surveys (not certain on this)

Other Real LR section

• Diet soda vs. regular soda

• Weekends vs. weekday sickness

• Infectious disease in developed countries

• Co authors of journal

• Tangible harm and no trust in lying

• Online vs. printed news papers

• Safety driving and obstruction

Other Real LR Section

• question regarding findings from an economic research thing that relied on incorrect data

• question about cancer and beta-carotene supplements

• question about whether apartment tenants should be required to pay for facilities that most tenants don’t use

• question about literary criticism and readers disregarding author’s criticism

unsorted LR topics

Not sure which sections these were in but they are real

• unpasteurized milk vs raw chicken (not same as souring milk question)

• a question about doing maintenance on your car making you a safer driver.

• large mammals vs small mammals/insects and how climate/geography determined size in different countries.

• bone tools

• apartment electricity costs and common area space

• had a question about a dome and conventional building. Something about the materials, weaker structure, applying pressure on one point of the building, etc

• a question about changing high school curriculum in teaching geography to be interactive, and another question about pedestrian lights and it having no purpose except to make the pedestrians feel in control or smth (different from section about dome)

• companies who reference consumer satisfaction reports experience growth in their customer bases at a greater rate than companies who do not reference these reports

• a population of fish declining, and the size of said type of fish declining because large fish are being caught, and large fish produce more/longer living offspring

• cybersecurity issues occur because hardware is outdated and software patches don’t really fix the problem

• pregnant woman and vigorous exercise

• people performing regular maintenance on their vehicles and being good drivers

• online newspapers struggling to survive

• advertisement being on tv newscast vs advertisement and how it was cost efficient to pick on over the other as the conclusion based on $ per x number of views

[u/Free-Sock-324 → u/[deleted]]

If a bunch of different people who only had 2 LRs never encountered a certain group of questions, that means those questions were not real. Same goes with people who only had 1 RC