<p>I keep hearing about changes that have been made to the LSAT but I'm not sure exactly what those changes were. I have access to the last 25 LSAT test and don't see a real difference between them. Can somebody help clarify the changes, if any, that were made.</p>
<p>Starting with the June 2007 administration of the LSAT, a comparative reading passage was added to the critical reading section. </p>
<p>LSAC’s description: “Starting with the June 2007 administration, LSAC is introducing a new variant of reading comprehension, called comparative reading, as one of the four sets in the LSAT reading comprehension section. In general, comparative reading questions are similar to traditional reading comprehension questions, except that comparative reading questions are based on two shorter passages instead of one longer passage. The two passages together are of roughly the same length as one reading comprehension passage, so the total amount of reading in the reading comprehension section will remain essentially the same. A few of the questions that follow a comparative reading passage pair might concern only one of the two passages, but most will be about both passages and how they relate to each other.”</p>
<p>There is a trend of at least 1 hybrid game appearing on the test now. I am trying to find a way to prepare for these hybrid games.</p>
<p>what do you mean hybrid game? are those covered in the powerscore logic games bible? just wondering because i’m in the middle of that right now…</p>
<p>I’m not sure. I think it means a combination of two different styles/types of games. I only started prepping 5 weeks ago. I am using blueprint prep which is supposed to be one of the best, and it is supposed to incorporate powerscore and testmasters methods.</p>
<p>i’ve taken the earlier LSAT preptests and i can say that the LR and LG sections from the earlier tests are significantly harder.</p>
<p>I somewhat disagree with crimsonpham. I’ve seen pretty much every single practice test out there, and my observation has been that the LG sections in tests from the late 90s to the early 2000s have been more difficult than say LG from 2004 and onwards. However, I’m not sure if this trend is still as true as it once was. Having seen some of the 2008 games and having heard anecdotal evidence regarding the latest June 2009 tests, it seems that the difficulty of the LG section is once again on an upswing. </p>
<p>As for LR, well, I think its difficulty level has stayed more or less stable for a while now.</p>
<p>I agree with crnchycereal. I am a regular on Top-Law-Schools, and everyone has been commenting how there has always been one game they couldn’t solely rely on their PowerScore techniques in the last couple testing administrations. This time around there was a dinosaur game that was a hybrid of two different types of games. Fortunately, my test prep has found some similar games and has also mimicked these games.</p>
<p>How long does LSAT wait until they release these recent tests with the hybrid games? Or in other words, are any of these tests available yet?</p>