Official October LSAT Topic Thread

[u/graeme_b]

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The October 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:

1. 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
2. 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://www.reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/1x096xd/official_october_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

• Chilean music
• Contract law
• Economics and moral judgment (comparative)
• Opossums playing dead

Another Real RC Section

• Neolithic South Africa
• Brain hemispheres and language
• Dracula and Twilight
• Nineteenth-century English marriage laws

Another Real RC Section

• Elk deaths
• Colombian silk
• Presentism
• The definition of rights

Another Real RC Section

• Peru, Chile, and the name “Pisco”
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Cost disease and the performing arts
• Keystone species

Real LR Topics

These grouped sets are partial topic lists from a confirmed two-LR source. Other confirmed topics are listed separately where their section allocation is uncertain.

Grouped Set of LR

• Spanish, Russian, and Turkish professions / murder investigation
• Jam samples

Grouped Set of LR

• Electricity use and daylight saving time
• Tree abrasion

Unsorted Real LR Topics

• Bees and stinging
• Banks and thermostats
• Oranges
• Bioluminescent squid
• Beetles and native predators
• Employee complaints
• A mayor’s neighborhood representatives
• Property forfeiture laws
• Nominations involving three people
• Amphibian diversity
• Frogs and vibration
• Managers monitoring employee email
• Buying silver
• Journalists and truthfulness
• Teachers’ motivations
• Bird cortisol
• Earth and a casserole
• Cranberry juice and other juices
• Brandon’s painting
• Junior and senior researchers
• Plants and workplace productivity
• Children and an Olympic diet
• Dogs and chimpanzees
• Moose saliva
• An ice-skating ban
• Maple trees and carbon dioxide
• The Sahara Desert
• Eating wheat
• Pirates and modern government
• A terrible movie
• Acupuncture and placebos
• Life on Mars and Earth
• Planetary habitability, temperature, and water
• Local and national journalists’ office floors
• Stingless bees, honeybees, and waggle dances

[u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

I had something like this, did anyone have the 2nd LR cz mine was a bit tricky so just wondering what are yalls thoughts:

RC1 marine biology destroyed, repetitive architecture

RC2 Colombian silk, elk 

LR1 parallel comparison, rich stepping on poor, bees eating leaves

LR2 Psychology study where people are told false info and then later think it's correct

[u/myayayayaya → u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

i only had one RC which had the exact same topics as your RC2!! also had the two LR sections you mentioned. lol this gave me serious peace of mind that my 3rd janky LR isn’t scored god bless

[u/Disastrous_Panda5522 → u/myayayayaya]

how was your LR2 the one with true and false psychology

[u/myayayayaya → u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

i don’t know if this was the same section, but i remember one LR felt different in the sense that all the question stimuli were super brief, like most were 2-3 sentences max. felt deceptively easy to where i initially thought it was gonna be the experimental section

[u/Disastrous_Panda5522 → u/myayayayaya]

oh okay, because the T/F one section felt long and had longer paragraphs I feel

[u/Equinoxthespiderlily → u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

I had RC1 as well

[u/Disastrous_Panda5522 → u/Equinoxthespiderlily]

did you have the other 2 LRs?

[u/Equinoxthespiderlily → u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

Nope, the questions seem shuffled.

[u/crispyamericano → u/Equinoxthespiderlily]

Did you have two rcs?

[u/Equinoxthespiderlily → u/crispyamericano]

Yes

[u/The_Butch_Man → u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

I had RC2 and remember both your other LRs. Was the LR question specifically about bees biting into the leaves of plants they pollinate?

Do you remember any questions about defective computer factories or train lines also?

[u/Sea-Literature5961 → u/Disastrous_Panda5522]

I had your LRs