How accurate/realistic are these RC practice questions? Forum

[Will McAvoy]

Quick question, just messing around and curious because I don't have the time to take a full diagnostic right now. How representative would you say these reading passages and questions are of an actual LSAT?
https://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/prep/reading-comprehension
I'll just say I ran through them and was surprised.

[GnarMarBinx]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

[Will McAvoy]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

Cool, thanks. I had a spare 20 minutes and I thought it seemed too easy. I'll be able to go all in on the prep after graduation in May.

[MercW07]

The Roy Lichtenstein passage is from section 3 of PT 42 and the 3 questions that follow are questions 9, 10, and 13 from (obviously) the same PT and section.

[GnarMarBinx]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

Cool, thanks. I had a spare 20 minutes and I thought it seemed too easy. I'll be able to go all in on the prep after graduation in May.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a spare 20 minutes." Have you done an actual section yet? If you have only read that web page then whatever you were timing yourself in completing will not be representative of an actual RC section.

[Will McAvoy]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

Cool, thanks. I had a spare 20 minutes and I thought it seemed too easy. I'll be able to go all in on the prep after graduation in May.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a spare 20 minutes." Have you done an actual section yet? If you have only read that web page then whatever you were timing yourself in completing will not be representative of an actual RC section.

Of course I don't expect to be able to extrapolate a score or anything from a truncated practice section. I really meant that I was bored/curious and used up a little free time running through that page. And it was much easier than I expected so I wanted to know if the questions had been cherrypicked or the passages shortened or something like that. Although I did time myself somewhat realistically for half a section.

[GnarMarBinx]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

Cool, thanks. I had a spare 20 minutes and I thought it seemed too easy. I'll be able to go all in on the prep after graduation in May.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a spare 20 minutes." Have you done an actual section yet? If you have only read that web page then whatever you were timing yourself in completing will not be representative of an actual RC section.

Of course I don't expect to be able to extrapolate a score or anything from a truncated practice section. I really meant that I was bored/curious and used up a little free time running through that page. And it was much easier than I expected so I wanted to know if the questions had been cherrypicked or the passages shortened or something like that. Although I did time myself somewhat realistically for half a section.

OK, I see what you mean. In that case, it would not be representative because there are usually about 7 questions per passage (lowest five, and highest 8.) I would recommend trying a full section out on one of the newer tests. I am not doubting your ability and I actually hope that RC will be as easy as it seems from that page. However, you will be able to get a better representation of your abilities once you do a section.

[Will McAvoy]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

Cool, thanks. I had a spare 20 minutes and I thought it seemed too easy. I'll be able to go all in on the prep after graduation in May.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a spare 20 minutes." Have you done an actual section yet? If you have only read that web page then whatever you were timing yourself in completing will not be representative of an actual RC section.

Of course I don't expect to be able to extrapolate a score or anything from a truncated practice section. I really meant that I was bored/curious and used up a little free time running through that page. And it was much easier than I expected so I wanted to know if the questions had been cherrypicked or the passages shortened or something like that. Although I did time myself somewhat realistically for half a section.

OK, I see what you mean. In that case, it would not be representative because there are usually about 7 questions per passage (lowest five, and highest 8.) I would recommend trying a full section out on one of the newer tests. I am not doubting your ability and I actually hope that RC will be as easy as it seems from that page. However, you will be able to get a better representation of your abilities once you do a section.

Thanks. I was able to squeeze in one of the Logical Reasoning sections from the free June 2007 test today, and I did pretty well I think. Might try the full Reading Comprehension section tomorrow. What exactly do you mean by newer? Is June 2007 too old to be representative? Probably won't bother with the Analytical Reasoning/Logic Games because I know I will absolutely bomb it. But I'll put in the time to get really good at it when I start studying for real.

[GnarMarBinx]

Fairly representative. I would suggest taking a diagnostic when you have time and figuring out how the section works with multiple passages, however. I and many others have found the newer RC sections to be much harder than older ones, so I would suggest taking a newer test, from 2011 or more recent. If you really don't have time for a full test, just take it and drill an RC section, a few LR questions from the middle/end of the section, and logic game three or 4. Those will likely give you some of the moderate to difficult questions from each section type.

Edit: you might also want to take RC passage 3 or 4, as they usually (but not always) get harder in difficulty as the section goes on. That's what I find, at least.

Cool, thanks. I had a spare 20 minutes and I thought it seemed too easy. I'll be able to go all in on the prep after graduation in May.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a spare 20 minutes." Have you done an actual section yet? If you have only read that web page then whatever you were timing yourself in completing will not be representative of an actual RC section.

Of course I don't expect to be able to extrapolate a score or anything from a truncated practice section. I really meant that I was bored/curious and used up a little free time running through that page. And it was much easier than I expected so I wanted to know if the questions had been cherrypicked or the passages shortened or something like that. Although I did time myself somewhat realistically for half a section.

OK, I see what you mean. In that case, it would not be representative because there are usually about 7 questions per passage (lowest five, and highest 8.) I would recommend trying a full section out on one of the newer tests. I am not doubting your ability and I actually hope that RC will be as easy as it seems from that page. However, you will be able to get a better representation of your abilities once you do a section.

Thanks. I was able to squeeze in one of the Logical Reasoning sections from the free June 2007 test today, and I did pretty well I think. Might try the full Reading Comprehension section tomorrow. What exactly do you mean by newer? Is June 2007 too old to be representative? Probably won't bother with the Analytical Reasoning/Logic Games because I know I will absolutely bomb it. But I'll put in the time to get really good at it when I start studying for real.

Great that the LR section went well! I would say that the June 2007 one may be slightly less representative (because I am pretty sure the ones past about 2012 are the hardest) but would still give you a good idea regarding how much time you will need to put into it as compared to the other sections. I think it has a comparative passage in it as well, which started fairly close to June 2007.