Raising LSAT Scores Is Almost Impossible:-)
Ok, I may have overstated the case in the headline, obviously raising LSAT scores is possible, but it ain't easy. The problem is that the LSAT scores are normalized or force fit to a bell curve, and very few test takers get nearly all of the questions right or wrong. By the time you get up to around 90% correct (90 out of 100) each additional correct answer can raise your score by a full point. Below 90%, through the fat (ie, dummies like me) part of the bell curve, it takes a couple correct answers to raise the LSAT score by one. Apparently, most people get at least 16 questions right, because raising your percentage correct from zero to fifteen percent only raises your LSAT score by 1, from 120 to 121.
I wouldn't have noticed this but I retook just the analytical section of the second practice test under timed conditions to see if I'd do any better graphing and how it would affect my score. Results were mixed, as I failed to develop a graph for one of the problem, and had to guess several of the answers, going 3 for 6 on that problem. I did fine on the rest of the section, raising my overall score from 14 for 23 to 19 for 23, which amounts to 5% more correct answers for the overall LSAT. Unfortunately, those five extra correct answers only raised my overall score from 164 to 167. It's hard to excel at something when you're only average, but it beats being one of the shmucks who got 100 or 99, when 98 translated into a perfect score for this test:-)
I'll have to sit down and figure out my failure to graph the third question, which was all about people with funky names at a car wash getting different grades of a wash job in different orders. I think the part that threw me was that the rules section was split into rules about the people and rules about the cars, but it will all come out in the wash. The one other answer I got wrong was due to a very specific graphing error that made me assume I had the correct answer before I reached the only answer that could have been correct. I failed to count the total number of options, which created an unstated condition to the rules themselves. A good trick to remember.
I wouldn't have noticed this but I retook just the analytical section of the second practice test under timed conditions to see if I'd do any better graphing and how it would affect my score. Results were mixed, as I failed to develop a graph for one of the problem, and had to guess several of the answers, going 3 for 6 on that problem. I did fine on the rest of the section, raising my overall score from 14 for 23 to 19 for 23, which amounts to 5% more correct answers for the overall LSAT. Unfortunately, those five extra correct answers only raised my overall score from 164 to 167. It's hard to excel at something when you're only average, but it beats being one of the shmucks who got 100 or 99, when 98 translated into a perfect score for this test:-)
I'll have to sit down and figure out my failure to graph the third question, which was all about people with funky names at a car wash getting different grades of a wash job in different orders. I think the part that threw me was that the rules section was split into rules about the people and rules about the cars, but it will all come out in the wash. The one other answer I got wrong was due to a very specific graphing error that made me assume I had the correct answer before I reached the only answer that could have been correct. I failed to count the total number of options, which created an unstated condition to the rules themselves. A good trick to remember.
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