Do most LR sections have similar level of difficulty?

[minhtientm249]

I was wondering about this since typically I only get about 2-4 LR questions incorrectly in an entire test (2 LR sections). However, for test 42 and one or two others, I got 9-10 incorrect answers. I'm not sure if this is because of me or the test itself being unusually hard.

Thank you.

[tommywallach]

Hey Min,

Well there is some natural variation in difficulty level (for example, the last LSAT I took was particularly hard, so you could make a couple more mistakes test-wide that was usual). However, the kind of variation you're talking about I think is more about coincidence than a harder section. That's simply too much to be explicable by the test. I'd just call it regression to the mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean!

-t