r/LSAT • • 17d ago

Official October LSAT Topic Thread

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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

r/LSAT • • 6h ago

November LSAT Scheduling Thread

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November LSAT scheduling has opened today. This thread is for anyone registering. Post any questions you have, or report any difficulties you experienced when trying to register.

If you had any notable experience in October during scheduling or at the test center in a certain area, please share as well.

Good luck to everyone scheduling, I hope you get the times and locations you would like!


r/LSAT • • 8h ago

Uhh… Guys?

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178 Upvotes

It wasn’t showing a registration hold this morning. I’ve only taken the LSAT twice.


r/LSAT • • 11h ago

LSAT Students on their 10 minute break after minute 72 of RC

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r/LSAT • • 4h ago

IS ANYONE ELSE FREAKING OUT?

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I feel like I can’t breathe. I’ve lived the life of every number between 140 and 180. Let me sleep.


r/LSAT • • 3h ago

‘Twas the night before score release

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Been trying to distract myself all day. The laundry is done. The dog got a bath. Mowed the lawn and blew the leaves. Changed the oil of my car. I’ve been at the gym for almost 2 hours. I’m freaking out. Send help.


r/LSAT • • 3h ago

is anyone else physically nauseous because of score release tomorrow?

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i am so so nervous for the october lsat score release tomorrow that it is manifesting in physical symptoms. just had a quesadilla from chipotle and i prayyyy it stays down!


r/LSAT • • 2h ago

shaking in my boots waiting for tomorrow morning

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r/LSAT • • 1h ago

score release tomorrow

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anyone else’s stomach literally turning? I was pretty calm up until today. I am registered for the nov test IN CASE but I can’t get myself to stop spiraling. letting everyone who feels the same that they are not alone!


r/LSAT • • 11h ago

Celebrate Anyway!

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Hello, everyone!

Those of us who took the October LSAT will be getting scores tomorrow. It was my first official LSAT. I'm not sure what I scored, but I plan to celebrate whether I got my ideal score or not. Why? Because (a) it's a score, and I can use it to apply for law school, (b) I did a hard thing, and (c) I'm still breathing and alive, so there's a reason to celebrate.

I've seen someone say "I'll celebrate if I got my goal score", which I understand. I just want to make a case for the idea that you can also resolve to celebrate regardless of the outcome.

I did the unusual thing and also registered for November, *just in case this one didn't go well* (partly because LSAC waits to give you results until it's too late to register for the next one haha; also because I was blessed to receive a fee waiver), but if this score comes back very high, I can cancel. I'm curious to know y'all's celebration plans. 👀 My plan did involve an icee, but I might end up rethinking that. We'll see. 😄


r/LSAT • • 2h ago

October lsat hopecore stories?? Plz share the hope.

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Ik there’s tons of posts about this, but maybe someone has smth new to share. I’ve never hit 165 on a PT but was consistently scoring ~157-161 then blind reviewing 167-170. Highest I ever hit was a 164 in June (not official pt).

Someone plz feed into my delusions of your success stories where/if you had a crazy surprising score increase on test day (unexpectedly). I felt rly good about the exam, even having 5-10 mins left at end of each section which has never ever happened. Felt like I got at most -5 per section. Is there any chance I actually got a 165+?


r/LSAT • • 23m ago

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


r/LSAT • • 8h ago

My wife divorced me just four days before the October LSAT. Despite this, I still took the test.

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Four days before the LSAT, my wife, who I had been with for six years and married to for one, told me she wanted a divorce. I still took the exam.

I feel like I did horribly. During the test, I kept tearing up and could not concentrate. Afterward, she did not even message me to ask how it went.

These have been the worst couple of weeks of my life. Results come out tomorrow, so please pray for me. I wish everyone the best of luck with their results and legal journey.


r/LSAT • • 9h ago

Im genuinely going to explode if I dont get my score in the next 30 seconds

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r/LSAT • • 7h ago

The suspense is killing me

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Good luck to everyone! -10 PT avg inbound for me 🤣😩


r/LSAT • • 8h ago

Not sure whether to freak out or not

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For context, received a score hold last night with what seems to be the basic message. Checked registration and…

Does this mean what I think it means?


r/LSAT • • 12h ago

How I’ll react tmrw

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(164 in September)

162😭
163😭
164😭
165😓
166🤔
167🙂
168😀
169😁
170🥳🥰🥳🤪🥳🥰🥳😎🥳
171-180🪦🪦😵(died of excitement)


r/LSAT • • 7h ago

This mean what I think?

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This what I think? 172 last exam, pt between 170 and 180…


r/LSAT • • 10h ago

score release tomorrow has me on the verge on meltdown

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Just venting and looking for anyone to commiserate with as this anxiety eats me alive lol. I never post but I feel like I’m going insane

I found Oct test fairly “easy” (as far as content goes) which is TERRIFYING ME because every time that I have taken a PT and thought “wow that was cool” it would be a big drop in my score (exactly how I felt on my Sept 21 PT). I wish my PT scores were more consistent because I cannot find any peace right now 🚫

I don’t even know. Would it be worth registering for January at this point? Would I then aim to try next cycle? I feel like I’ll never get another test that “feels” as good as October, and frankly, I don’t want to spend another year working in my current field! I am yearning to go back to school! Bruh the waiting is so awful. I feel like my whole financial and professional future depends on this test, which I know isn’t necessarily true, but it really does feel that way.

I felt very chill during the test and was not anxious at all. Diagnostic 165 in Feb, kinda studied, took actual April, got 163. Then, started studying very seriously. I feel like I understand the test. But, I just don’t know if I can afford financially or emotionally to go through this all again & I just need to be okay with the fact that I very easily could not have broken 170

Also, I’m not “unhappy” with my 163 actual. I just have a 3.5low & big ambitions & no external financial support, so it would just kill me to “know” I could perform well on the test (as “shown” by my PTs), and not be able to replicate it

And my fears don’t even exist yet because I don’t even know my score!!! So who knows! Not me! Until tomorrow!

Why must we wait so long!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway that’s all, just sitting at my desk sick to my stomach & wondering if anyone else feels like me rn

If you’re feeling like me, please rant with me in the comments if that’s cathartic for you as well. My bf and friends are very tired of hearing about this test lol


r/LSAT • • 7h ago

If everyone can just kindly log off so I can schedule it would be much appreciated

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Wish this was more of a state based process on its own servers 😂


r/LSAT • • 5h ago

Score release

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If I get a 165 or above, I'm upgrading my graphics card tomorrow. If it's any lower, I'm not. So I'm about to be happy and broke, or sad and less broke.


r/LSAT • • 7h ago

Got on the scale today and said to myself "plz let me get the same score as my weight" lol

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I am losing my mind, tomorrow can't come sooner.


r/LSAT • • 6m ago

anyone in cali staying up for the score release

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cbtm


r/LSAT • • 4h ago

Just scheduled my test!

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180 here we come. Currently scoring 174-176 on PTs, the rest is all mental. This is what I trained for. I can do it, and you can too.


r/LSAT • • 13h ago

i wish the score release was earlier

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i feel like i was more well-prepared to accept results good or bad within the first week .. 1.5 weeks after the rest. now a few weeks have gone by and i just dread opening lsac tomorrow.