Better on Experimental Sections

jmosu419

I almost always do considerably better on the experimental section than on the scored one. Generally speaking, improvement is still happening on LR questions, but it's infuriating for my scores to be somewhat static because I do better on the unscored section. Anybody else experienced this and/or found a fix for it? Is the experimental easier?

natemanwell1

not sure what you mean. the experimental section is the section that is on unscored. all sections on every official available lsat test are scored.

tbynum30

I'm assuming you're referring to it being listed as experimental on the review results page. There's not really a way around it because of course we don't know which section is the unscored section when we're testing. What I would do though is examine the trends in why you're getting questions wrong and see if the same questions are in the unscored section from the specific PT and think about why you're getting them right there instead. Not sure if this helps but I've found tracking trends and doing a wrong answer journal to be helpful so you can be consistent.

SufferingfromSufficientCondition

It is possible that the experimental sections you've taken happen to be easier in the sense that they contain less four or five-star questions. The analytics page is helpful for determining whether the overall section is considered medium difficult, super difficult, etc. Go to Practice -> Analytics -> scroll halfway down to the "test section" area (after the graph). This breaks down overall sections into difficulty ratings.

It's also possible that the experimental section doesn't contain as many questions that are weak areas for you. Example: Maybe your weakness is in flaw and inference questions, but the experimental section happens to lack those question types.

However, imo it isn't super helpful to focus on how your experimental section raw score differs from the scored section raw score. Review what you're getting wrong and maybe look for a pattern in question types to target weakness (as mentioned before, if the scored section has a lot of flaw questions missed but experimental has only one flaw question included in it).

In other words, review and learn - don't over focus on numbers.

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