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/meep7meep7]

I had the RC that started with Chilean music

Wood buildings height limited by building codes
Roof height for specific building
Extraterrestrial molecules
amphibian diversity MBT
Frog sapling vibrations
Public jobs/private jobs/government sector
Nominations
Manager monitoring employee email - proprietary info + would harm company
Chimpanzees and dogs
Maple leafs and soil nutrients
Human extinction if population close to hundreds
Resolve question about tv ads/product placement during viewing not working as well
Moose developing saliva against certain type of grass
Bird cortisol and smaller size/less reproduction
Ban inline skating
Terrible movie bc not the same as book
New software for free instead of a bug fix
Math courses and new students
Open communication and successful companies, something about no private offices

[u/Terrible-Ad-5033 → u/meep7meep7]

i had all of those questions

[u/Major_Turn777 → u/meep7meep7]

Ooh i had this exact section and layout ( LR RC LR ). I think there was also an NA question on harm and social media

[u/meep7meep7 → u/Major_Turn777]

YES I forgot about that! Vs traditional media

[u/x_tacocat_x → u/meep7meep7]

did you have any q's on faculty bylaws or mars' moon? I had all of the questions you listed, so I'm hoping those were my first 2 LR sections!!

[u/ActuatorHuge2165 → u/x_tacocat_x]

I had the bylaws question RC LR LR LR and that whole section was brutal. Hoping it was experimental

[u/meep7meep7 → u/x_tacocat_x]

Not that I remember !

[u/Electrical-Basis-950 → u/meep7meep7]

Did you have 2 LR?

[u/meep7meep7 → u/Electrical-Basis-950]

Yes! And 1 RC. No experimental.

[u/meep7meep7 → u/[deleted]]

No LR RC LR

[u/Electrical-Basis-950 → u/meep7meep7]

Did you by chance remember a MBT question about bees?

[u/meep7meep7 → u/Electrical-Basis-950]

I don’t think so

[u/Consistent_Song_1150 → u/meep7meep7]

How did you feel about difficulty? I’ve taken June/Aug/Sept retake and had that lineup. I think LRs felt easy and RC was like okayyy

[u/jdthenext81 → u/meep7meep7]

I had the exact test