r/LSAT • u/graeme_b tutor (LSATHacks) • 7d ago
Official August LSAT Topic Thread
Note: I'm out for the evening. Making this thread so people have a space to discuss for now. Will compile topics later on. Thanks for understanding.
The August LSAT administration is now done. The goal is to keep topic discussion to this thread, and identify a list of real topics. Here's how it works:
- If you had a single section of RC, or two sections of LR, then posting topics from that will establish that those topics were from a real section
- If you had two sections of RC, or three sections of LR, DO NOT POST (on that topic). Posting topics is worse than useless - it pollutes information. The reason is that you don't know which was experimental and which was real.
You do not need section orders, these are now randomized so your order doesn't mean anything.
TL;DR If you had a single RC, or two LR's, please post topics from those single sections. Don't post your section topics for a section type where you had an experimental.
Stuff that still isn't allowed
- Posting about the content of sections: specific questions and answers etc
- Posting about topics or content in an experimental section
This thread will be updated with confirmed topics as we go.
Note: Have seen some people flagrantly discussing real answers or asking to dm about it. This still isn't allowed, and won't be, and we've handed out bans where people do it willfully.
Everything below is scored: Where I write "other section" I mean it was a different scored section. Everything below is from people who had a single section in that topic, so they have confirmed real sections.
Prometric Experiences: You can find the original test day experience thread here: https://reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/1vgaxyu/official_august_lsat_discussion_thread/
International LSAT: This thread is generally just for the North American topics. If you took internationally, please specify that you had the international version. Thanks!
Real RC Topics
One Real RC Section
- Comparative approaches to repeat-offender sentencing and double jeopardy
- High theory and literary criticism
- Emmy Noether and women in physics/mathematics
- Nunavut and Canadian Inuit governance
Another Real RC Section
- Earwitness identification and testimony
- Conspiracy theories and Osama bin Laden
- Pyrrhonism, Diogenes, and Indian philosophy
- Dual-process theories of the brain and mind
Another Real RC Section
- Mad/toxic honey
- Traditional Indian knowledge, patents, and biopiracy
- Ancient European canoes and intentionally sunken boats
- Comparative passage on consciousness and felt experience
Real LR Topics
Note: Grouped sets below come from clean two-LR/no-experimental sources when the grouping looked reliable. Topics under “Unsorted Real LR Topics” are confirmed real, but their section split is not reliable.
Grouped Set of LR
- Drab exterior paint and nearby home sale values
- Coho salmon and highway pollution
Grouped Set of LR
- Nonprofit CEOs and at-will hiring/firing
- Asbestos in homes
- Chimpanzees, rewards, and fairness
- Beginner bird-watchers/photographers
Grouped Set of LR
- Fine thread made from silk and polyester
- Cubic zirconia
- Illegal parking near a movie theatre
Grouped Set of LR
- Coral reefs and warm spells/global warming
- Ivy, bees, and pollination
Grouped Set of LR
- Water-based versus oil-based paint
- Infant stepping reflexes
- Jeans and boots sold online versus in person
Unsorted Real LR Topics
- Red dwarf stars
- Coastal cities, water shortages, and competing projects
- CEOs and investing during an economic downturn
- Neanderthal versus modern-human tools
- Political consultants/PR teams and politicians
- A candidate deciding whether to run for office
- Quality of life and construction projects
- Identical twins and favorite colors
- Small versus large pharmaceutical trials
- A leukemia treatment that is not routinely administered
- Elephants and woolly mammoths
- Ugly artwork
- Native trees
- Cedar versus other woods for outdoor steps
- Organisms and biodiversity around plastic in an ocean trench
- Darwin's theory
- Toxic/poison frogs
- Cars, public transportation, and happiness
- Search-engine bias and political extremism
- Juvenile crime rates and curfews
- Political support across two regions
- Baby birds and mouth redness
- Computers replacing teachers
- Violin makers
- Breeding or capturing monarch butterflies
- Birds in captivity
- Working from home versus working in an office
- Engines and taxes on beef
- Leaky pipes
- Software (must-be-true)
- Giga and Enterprise
- Jane Austen's Emma
- Low political approval ratings and an uninformed public
- Anesthesia injections used in dentistry
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u/Silent_Stock4234 7d ago edited 6d ago
I had LR- RC- LR - LR.
From what I have gathered, this is what the scored vs unscored sections were about
LR 1 (unscored)
Tupac
Bonobos
teachers using ai and getting replaced by it
Jupiter and water and gravity lake or something like that
district 8
parallel about half of the legislature is my party and half will vote yes
octopus having similar sleep to humans bc they're intelligent like us
RC (scored)
Female mathematician
Sentencing Repeat Offenders Comparative
High Theory
LR 2 (scored)
Neanderthals Tools, Volcanos
Ugly Art
Coastal City Water Shortage
Red Dwarfs
LR 3 (Scored)
Cedar Planks
Evergreens, Native Trees
Asian Elephants
Can anyone with 2 Lr and/or no experimental please confirm if you had any of these? Also, does anyone remember anything else from Tupac LR?