The September 2007 LSAT

The September LSAT had a total of 100 scored questions—23 in Games, 25 in each Arguments section, and 27 in Reading Comprehension. Reports from September 2007 test takers indicate that the experimental section appeared in Section 2 or Section 3 on most test forms. Be aware, however, that LSAC often administers a few selected forms with identical scored sections, but with their experimental sections in a different location.

Games - 23 questions
About half (48 percent) of Princeton Review students rated the Games section as about the same difficulty as those on other recent exams, while 22 percent rated it as easier and 30 percent rated it as harder. This can be explained by the fact that the September Games section didn’t have any unusual or extremely hard games, which made sizing up the games and choosing an order of attack challenging for some test takers. Those who knew their strengths, picked an order, and stuck with it were more likely to rate the section as about the same as or easier than the games on other recent tests. Three of the games had conditional clues, and knowing how to diagram and make deductions from this kind of clue was vital.

Arguments - 25 and 25 questions
Both scored Arguments sections had 25 questions. The overall distribution of questions was consistent with that of other recent exams, and Princeton Review students rated the sections as similar in difficulty to those on other recent exams. The September exam had fewer fill-in-the-blank inference/main point questions than did the June exam. Test takers were pleasantly surprised to find relatively easy parallel and parallel-flaw questions, but they noted that these easier questions were balanced out by some harder principle questions. Causal and sampling flaws appeared with predictable regularity, and, among the minor flaws, absence-of-evidence and analogy flaws popped up.

Understanding conditional statements helped on about nine questions across both sections, though you didn’t necessarily need to diagram the statements to answer the questions. Both sections started off with about eight easy questions—the obvious answer was correct, and there were few traps. The middle range in each section mixed medium questions with a few hard ones. Knowing when to guess on a question or skip it and come back later helped test takers maintain their pacing. The end of each section contained the hardest questions. Careful attention to language and good POE were crucial to success in Arguments.

Scored Reading Comprehension - 27 questions
Most Princeton Review students (70 percent) rated the Reading Comprehension section as about the same difficulty or easier than Reading Comprehension on other recent exams. They found the comparative passage the easiest of the four.