Hello all! I'm glad to virtually meet you!
I recently took a proctored practice LSAT given by Kaplan and scored a 162. I don't know whether to be excited or skeptical yet...but I want better.
I plan on trying to be involved here, if that's okay, to hopefully make myself a better candidate/student and, well, you all seem like a good group of folks!
So ja, hope to interact with you all soon!
In case you don't know, if it was one of those Kaplan 'come and take a free proctored practice test' events, for years they typically have administered a fake Kaplan written LSAT. That means it is not an authentic LSAC produced and previously administered LSAT.
It is imperative that you
ONLY practice and measure your progress with authentic previously administered LSAT questions/test forms while you study and prepare. The fake, non LSAC produced questions/test items are different in various ways.
LSAC has a very sophisticated test item development and quality control system that all questions go through before they appear on an administered test as well as a complex test form assembly system. They do this to make sure each assembled and administered test form measures the same acquired skills in the same ways every time to insure the reliability and comparability of achieved scores. It involves a lot of complex psychometric procedures (math
). Some questions that appear on administered tests were given birth in the development cycle up to 7 or more years before they appeared on an actual test.
If you want your head to
, here is one of many articles about it:
http://www.lsacnet.org/Research/rr/Applications-Uniform-Test-Assembly-LSAT.pdfReading that will NOT help you improve your score though, it's just interesting.
Bottom line is that fake non LSAC produced LSAT tests/questions are not put through such a rigorous quality control and assembly system, are different and can lead to false results about your true current scoring range. Friends don't let friends practice with fake LSAT questions!
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