Kaplan Test Prep - LSAT PrepTest 84 Unlocked: Exclusive Data + Analysis + Explanations

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PrepTest 84 was administered in June 2018. It challenged 22,489 test takers. What made this test so hard? Heres a breakdown of what Kaplan students who were surveyed after taking the official exam considered PrepTest 84s most difficult section.

Based on these results, you might think that studying Logic Games is the key to LSAT success. Well, Logic Games is important, but test takers perceptions dont tell the whole story. For that, you need to consider students actual performance. The following chart shows the average number of students to miss each question in each of PrepTest 84s different sections.

Actual student performance tells quite a different story. On average, students were actually more likely to miss questions in Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension than they were in Logic Games.

Maybe students overestimate the difficulty of the Logic Games section because its so unusual, or maybe its because a really hard Logic Game is so easy to remember after the test (for instance, this tests final game was very challenging). However, the truth is that the testmaker places hard questions throughout the test. Here were the locations of the 10 hardest (most missed) questions in the exam.

The takeaway from this data is that, to maximize your potential on the LSAT, you need to take a comprehensive approach. Test yourself rigorously, and review your performance on every section of the test. Kaplans LSAT explanations provide the expertise and insight you need to fully understand your results. The explanations are written and edited by a team of LSAT experts, who have helped thousands of students improve their scores. Kaplan always provides data-driven analysis of the test, ranking the difficulty of every question based on actual student performance. The 10 hardest questions on every test are highlighted with a 4-star difficulty rating, the highest we give. The analysis breaks down the remaining questions into 1-, 2-, and 3-star ratings so that you can compare your performance to thousands of other test takers on all LSAC material.

Dont settle for wondering whether a question was really as hard as it seemed to you. Analyze the test with real data, and learn the secrets and strategies that help top scorers master the LSAT.

• 101 questions per test is the standard. However, PrepTest 84 had only 100 questionsthe first test to do so since June 2015 (PT 75).
• This was the second PrepTest since June 2007 with no Method of Argument questions. The other test was June 2014 (PT 72).
  
• The first Logical Reasoning section of PT 84 had two questions about dinosaurs#13 and #23. Test takers might have recalled those two questions on the Friday night after the test when they were watching the premier of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
• It's not that uncommon to see Strict Sequencing, Matching, Loose Sequencing, or a Hybrid game on a test. But PT 84 was the first test to feature all four since June 2004 (PT 43). Not only did the test feature all those game types, but the Hybrid game was a combination of Distribution and Selection. That means all the common game actions were present on this test.
• Distribution/Selection games are rarethere have only been eight total ever. Prior to PT 84 the most recent ones were in December 2014 (PT 74) (when there were two) and October 2011 (PT 64).
• This was not the test to guess (D) in Logic Games. That answer was only correct twice (tied for the fewest ever)and both times it was right was on a 1-Star Acceptability question.
• There were only two Detail Questions in the Reading Comp section. There have only been that few three times everthe two other times were in October 2010 (PT 61) and October 2000 (PT 32).

As much fun as it is to find out what makes a PrepTest unique or noteworthy, its even more important to know just how representative it is of other LSAT administrations (and, thus, how likely it is to be representative of the exam you will face on Test Day). The following charts compare the numbers of each kind of question and game on PrepTest 84 to the average numbers seen on all officially released LSATs administered over the past five years (from 2013 through 2017).