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UPDATE
So it looks like the removed question from the June 2010 LSAT was from one of the Logical Reasoning sections.

As to the curve (-12 for a 170, with a removed question to boot), this is about a year and a half now of pretty lenient curves, which could indicate a few different things.

First, people could have just gotten dumber in the last year and a half.
Second, the test itself may have gotten harder in the last year and a half. We know games are making a bit of a comeback.
Third, more people could be taking the test without adequate preparation. With so many people taking the exam to escape a crumbling economic reality, I’d personally roll with choice 3.

What are your thoughts?
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The signs are all around us. You’ve seen them: listless bodies walking blankly around town at dusk, a preponderance of frighteningly pale and sickly young people lurking about your neighborhood bars and restaurants, and an ever increasing number of confused individuals emerging from the shadows, devoid of people skills and all-around cleanliness. No, this is not a casting call for the next George Romero zombie flick, nor is it at all related to the ubiquitous and thoroughly tired vampire fad. My friends, what we’re dealing with is a massive outbreak of PLWD: Post LSAT Withdrawal Disorder.
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That’s right, kiddies, it’s that time again: the post-LSAT Blog Carnival. We’ve trolled the interconnected tubes and webs for any and all LSAT recaps and reactions. The reviews were…mixed.

“A six hour brain humping courtesy of the law school admissions council.” This blogger’s post was pithy, but it is, if not a “good” tone to start off, at least an indicative one.

Christian declines to state how his LSAT went, but instead focuses on what his ideal testing experience would have been: Augustine of Hippo cooking him a good breakfast of scones and Jesus sitting next to him in the testing center supplying him answers. Oh, and Bono was there. Here’s hoping that some day this psychedelic LSAT dream can become a reality.
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I hope that everyone survived the logical whiplash of Monday’s exam, and I suspect that many of you have burned, incinerated, and/or dropped your LSAT books off of a tall structure (that last method of destruction is actually pretty lame. I mean, your LSAT books aren’t going to shatter into a million pieces when they hit the ground, someone’s just going to have to pick them up). To those of you who are done with the LSAT forever, I congratulate you. I know that you are all dying to know how my test day went, and I shall spare no detail (except any intellectual property of the Law School Admissions Council, of course).
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And…the world has continued to turn. People have continued to eat, drink, and be merry. The oil refining arm of Blueprint has continued to languish in incompetence as oil gushes into the waters off the Gulf Coast.

In short, life has gone on after the LSAT.

Or has it?

Judging by the clientele at the Blueprint post-LSAT shindig last night, there will be some serious navel-gazing throughout the next few weeks as the cancellation deadline comes and goes (and also likely some semi-serious hangovers this morning).
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So some of our East Coast correspondents have reported back to us. It appears that for basically the fourth consecutive LSAT, stretching back to the infamous Mauve Dinosaur game from last June, logic games were the make-or-break section.

Apparently, the first few games were relatively simple, but the last game was a monster that echoed the Mauve Dino game.

Any reactions of your own? Thoughts on the test? What are you drinking tonight? Don’t post any answers to questions in the comments, or too much in the way of specifics about the exam, but any immediate thoughts that come to mind, holler at us.

You are literally minutes away from the actual LSAT. Thousands of minutes, of course, all of which make up 32 days (now change your underwear). As your instructor likely told you as you prepared for Practice Exam #2, there is plenty of time to improve your score, and that some scores will actually decrease at this point in the course. If you’re like me, these claims were met with distrust and seemed to be part of some sort of reverse psychology technique designed to preemptively ward off the freaked out students. It’s a good thing that the LSAT rewards this type of paranoia and extreme skepticism. You’re on the right track, congratulations!
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Now that I’ve returned to my vices I can write this with a clear head. Wow. That felt good. The anticipation of taking the LSAT has been part of my every day life for the past 4 months or so. It seemed like only yesterday I was sitting on my friend’s couch playing Madden, the air as hazy as our minds, when I realized that life was fast passing me by. So I did it. I cleared my schedule and dedicated myself to studying for the LSAT once again.

4 months and 0 games of Madden later the big day arrived, conveniently, the day after the Super Bowl. As a Sabbath observer, my exam was on a Monday instead of Saturday. This was going to be a retake for me. I took the June 06 LSAT almost 4 years ago. Although it was also a Monday exam, the conditions of the exams were drastically different. In 2006, I took the LSAT in San Francisco in some ballroom with somewhere between 300 and 1000 people. I remember the moment after the proctor said, “You may begin Section 1 of the examination”, it was like the thousand test pamphlets opened in unison creating a sound like a wave crashing on the beach. Panic. I abandoned the methods I was taught and just fought to stay in the game despite my overwhelming nerves.
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It’s time once again for the post-LSAT Blarnival. While the February LSAT has the fewest test-takers of any of the four administrations of the test, there was still some reaction throughout the blogosphere to the most mysterious of all LSAT administrations.

Seemie Now took the test on Saturday and cautions against assuming a section is experimental simply because it is easy. Seemie is holding out hope that cancellations on the eastern seaboard positively affect the curve, on the assumption that that is where all the geniuses live.

Apparently Georgetown students weren’t lucky enough to get their LSAT administration cancelled. Despite a foot of snow, the Hoyas had to march in and take the test.
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Disclaimer I:
Apparently, LSAC regulations dictate that I refrain from dispelling any details regarding Saturday’s hateful exam (crazy, right?), so I am limiting my discussion to generalities and I would advise those who post, if and when you do, to follow suit and do the same.

The Morning Before

For me, getting through the morning before the LSAT was the worst part of the exam. For those taking the LSAT in Pasadena, CA the weather decided to match the excitement and so it rained cats and dogs. Seriously, I could barely see the car in front of me swerving through the 110 freeway. And of course, since it was the day of the LSAT—the exam that made you give up dieting, facebooking, quitting smoking, The Big Bang Theory (or whatever inferior show it is that you watch); the exam that determines the rest of your life—everything felt personal, and a small part of me (maybe a big part of me) wanted to accidentally intentionally ram my Toyota into the side of the road and have an awesome excuse for missing the LSAT that I’d describe as a great tragedy in my addendum. Though I managed to squish the urge and arrive at the test center safe and sound, the raindrops felt uncannily like hail as I walked in, and everyone I saw looked infinitely smarter and taller, better looking and better prepared than me. By this time, I had to face the fact that I was nervous as hell and tell myself to get an effing grip.
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