September 2024 LSAT Review

September 2024 LSAT Proctoring and Test Centers

19,813 people were registered to take the September 2024 exam. Dave Killoran reports that roughly ~18,000 took the exam over three days.

Overall testing seems to have been positive. LSAC continues to iron out difficulties in their proctoring. Powerscore’s Dave Killoran reported on twitter that there were no systemic issues. I have collected some problem reports below, but know that most people had no issues.

Test Centers remain the best option for problem free testing. Virtually no issues were reported for in person testing.

Three issues, however, were present based on Reddit info:

Proctor absences or odd behavior: Some students reported that proctors would show up and then simply leave – notably during breaks. There were fewer such reports than on past exams, but it is still a risk to remote testing. Note that such reports are overall much lower than they were earlier in the year. Overall remote testing experiences have been quite positive. Some reports of incidents that did occur:

• Camera stopped working after downloading
• Proctor paused could not resume
• Proctor interrupted my test
• Please help proctor nightmare on my final lsat
• Why would the proctor ping me during the test
• Prometric issues rant
• Terrible remote experience
• Disconnected several times test day complaint

Various test center notes

• My remote experience i pissed myself
• Anyone elses proctor bitch about their straw in their drink
• Did anyones proctor make you cover a tv too
• Notifying proctor at the end of the exam –> helpful thread. You don’t need to notify the proctor when finishing, according to the notice they found. (Please verify this before relying on it, as LSAC rules could change at any point)

Proctor Connection Issues

A connection issue can happen either on Prometric’s end or your own end. To reduce the odds of connection issues from your end I recommend checking your internet speed and using ethernet. I have written a guide on avoiding LSAT test day internet issues here.

Test Center Reports

In-person testing issues. Generally no complaints on this front. One person complained of noisy proctors. Another person mentioned their test center was three hours away. Saw a separate post that someone had a security violation for accidentally picking up their phone when it was turned off. Remote proctor was generally fine, but a test center seems the most problem free method. :

• Lsat complaint question
• Had to drive 3 hours to a test center and im so mad

One caution about test centers: if you get sick, you won’t be able to switch to remote, or won’t easily be able to. One person was quite sick and did not want to risk infecting others

Macos: Note that Macos Sonoma is now supported, and no issues were reported. And majority of remote test reports were positive. A word of caution: Macos Sequoia will be coming out this month. I strongly recommend NOT upgrading to Sequoia until LSAC and Prometric confirm that their software is compatible with the new OS.

September 2024 LSAT Curve

The curve for the September 2024 LSAT can’t be known, as LSAC doesn’t release exams and never discloses current curves. Note also that there are multiple versions of the exam administered each test date, so one version may have a different curve than another. Powerscore has announced they will release a podcast on Tuesday Sept 10th with curve predictions.

September 2024 Score Release Date

The September 2024 LSAT’s score release date is Wednesday, September 25th. Based on recent history, score release will be on exactly that date.

Score preview can be purchased between September 14th and September 23rd for $80.

The November 2024 registration deadline is open until September 26th, 2024. Note that this is one day after September score release – you will have a chance to see your Sept score and decide. The October registration deadline has passed.

If you had an issue during testing LSAC will often provide a retest date prior to score release. You’ll need to contact LSAC to file a complaint and get it approved in order to get a retest.

September 2024 LSAT Confirmed Topics

Based on Reddit’s Discussion, here are some confirmed topics for the September 2024 LSAT. If you had one of these sections, that section was scored.

Generally speaking, people report that Powerscore’s crystal ball was fairly accurate this test, notably for RC.

There is no scheduled release date for any of the questions from these exams. The last scheduled release was LSAT Preptest 94, administered in 2020. (This is now preptest 156 in the new format)

Note that there were no more logic games on this LSAT.

Real RC Topics

One Real RC Section

• history passage about women’s suffrage
• science-y passage about ancient astronomy
• comparative philosophy type passage about aesthetic preferences
• law type passage about copyright in art

Another Other Real Section

• Thelonius Monk (pianist)
• Meteorites/asteroids and life on mars
• Kitchen model
• Precaution and legislation

Another Real RC Section

• art painting about vermeer painting his daughter
• science passage about indian and greek astronomy
• canadian court laws ab cryptmesia
• comparative passage about executives and social responsibility

Real LR Topics

note: There is some uncertainty around the specific placement of LR sections. I have reasonably high confidence they’re all real subjects. Less than 100% confidence they’re all correctly distributed between the sections.

One Real LR Section

• question regarding anti-fraud detection
• Restricting activities based on age if they require competency

Other Real LR Section

• Found preserved religious art from caves → these people considered caves very sacred/spiritual [identify the flaw]
• Libertarian young voters take a poll on if they like government control leading libertarian narrator to assume the youth are more libertarian in general
• How milk clots into cheese without the special enzyme
• Person says saying employees choosing their hours is ridiculous
• Birds like hidden nests except for birds with brightly colored males
• Fossilized bone tools – is there proof humans invented this
• Study finds people are more open to trying non-diet soda (there may be two diet soda questions)
• Fork lifting tools in factories
• Efficiency of eliminating fossil fuel emissions technology is more expensive than before

Other Real LR Section

• Youth hostels (either have bunk beds or individual) analogy to injuries/runners
• Snakes DNA found identical chromosomes
• Best chess players get beaten by computer algorithms
• Politicians should be able to lie about their past mistakes if they will prevent them in the future through their re-election
• Security clearance

Other Real LR Section

–> These may or may not be from different sections

Other Real LR section

Not certain on placement of questions within this sections. Flagged them where unclear

• 1980s vs. 1990s national park tourism
• Taxis vs. Limo
• gas vs. coal tax
• Mice in arctic weather *100k Tax packages
• Strong local communities vs. government intervention
• TLA 2 gene
• Newscast advertisement
• social media posts
• the ability of puffer fish to take in air
• a toy manufacturing company that had apparently seen a decline in sales following a series of ad campaigns with prominent celebrities
• a group offering scholarships. The national group implemented a campaign to widen the criteria, but one regional group did not do so yet received more applicants than ever before * children’s exposure to germs in developed nations and the development of allergies/autoimmune diseases later in life
• computers that could perform complex functions and, therefore, were intelligent beings
• business mergers (not certain on this)
• customer satisfaction surveys (not certain on this)

Other Real LR section

• Diet soda vs. regular soda
• Weekends vs. weekday sickness
• Infectious disease in developed countries
• Co authors of journal
• Tangible harm and no trust in lying
• Online vs. printed news papers
• Safety driving and obstruction

Other Real LR Section

• question regarding findings from an economic research thing that relied on incorrect data
• question about cancer and beta-carotene supplements
• question about whether apartment tenants should be required to pay for facilities that most tenants don’t use
• question about literary criticism and readers disregarding author’s criticism

unsorted LR topics

Not sure which sections these were in but they are real

• unpasteurized milk vs raw chicken (not same as souring milk question)
• a question about doing maintenance on your car making you a safer driver.
• large mammals vs small mammals/insects and how climate/geography determined size in different countries.
• bone tools
• apartment electricity costs and common area space
• had a question about a dome and conventional building. Something about the materials, weaker structure, applying pressure on one point of the building, etc
• a question about changing high school curriculum in teaching geography to be interactive, and another question about pedestrian lights and it having no purpose except to make the pedestrians feel in control or smth (different from section about dome)
• companies who reference consumer satisfaction reports experience growth in their customer bases at a greater rate than companies who do not reference these reports
• a population of fish declining, and the size of said type of fish declining because large fish are being caught, and large fish produce more/longer living offspring
• cybersecurity issues occur because hardware is outdated and software patches don’t really fix the problem
• pregnant woman and vigorous exercise
• people performing regular maintenance on their vehicles and being good drivers
• online newspapers struggling to survive
• advertisement being on tv newscast vs advertisement and how it was cost efficient to pick on over the other as the conclusion based on $ per x number of views

This is not an exhaustive list of all scored topics. If you had any other topics, please let me know in the comments. Note that the LR topics might not be 100% correctly sorted between sections, as the sorting relies on people’s memory and self reports of questions.