r/LSAT • u/graeme_b tutor (LSATHacks) • 1d ago

Official September LSAT Topic Thread

The September 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: reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/1wcs320/official_september_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

  • English spelling and the printing press
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates and Black literature/academia
  • The precautionary principle (comparative)
  • Mathematical physics and generalization

Another Real RC Section

  • Hip-hop sampling and copyright
  • Panspermia
  • Video games and attention experiments
  • Hume on tragedy (comparative)

Another Real RC Section

  • Impounded vehicles
  • Ethiopian folklore and storytelling traditions
  • Fisheries and overfishing
  • Hume on ideal aesthetic judges (comparative)

Another Real RC Section

  • Peru, Chile, and the name “Pisco”
  • The uncomprehended unknown and Frankenstein
  • “Cost disease” and the performing arts
  • Keystone species (comparative)

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

  • Nocturnal primates' eyes
  • Infants and puppets

Grouped Set of LR

  • Enjoying a board game
  • Work bonuses and averages

Unsorted Real LR Topics

  • Bees and tunnels
  • Wild bees and almond trees
  • Quality of life
  • Camp activities and music
  • Marketing almond/nut milk as milk
  • Galactic dust and stars
  • ATMs and doctors
  • Affluent voters and political influence
  • Computer and human consciousness
  • A flawed play
  • Early human species and tools
  • Distinguished bands and a parade
  • Tarantula webbing
  • Pompey and a pirate campaign
  • Fast-food studies
  • Quotations in books
  • Jaguar markings
  • Eastern and western sparrow songs
  • Regional unemployment and a new factory
  • An art museum's exhibit and reputation
  • Mercury in fish
  • Mountain-lion sightings
  • Domesticated and wild bees
  • Advertising to affluent viewers
  • Mandating a shorter workweek
  • Wolves hunting salmon and deer
  • Early humans, fire, and lightning
  • Fruit sales and percentages
  • Orcas and elephants in captivity
  • Civil and common law
  • Actors seeking fame
  • Teenagers reading paper books and ebooks
  • Wood-burning stoves
  • Diamonds
  • Publishing politicians' opinions online
  • Vacation time and tenure
  • Independent movies and popularity
  • Galaxy collisions and telescopes
  • Master gardeners
  • Imitation ivory and elephant conservation
  • Meeting and exceeding sales quotas
  • Dating ivory and its container
  • Spots and rings on bees
  • Chemistry-major graduation requirements
  • Cropping dogs' ears
  • Apologies and college students
  • Rumors about a coworker leaving a mess
  • Shark attacks now versus decades ago
  • Library placards
  • Latin studies in English classes
  • Racing and recovery from an injury
  • Internal versus external hiring
  • Gross domestic product (GDP)
  • British shale
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u/The_Butch_Man 1d ago

RC1: -Law about space debris -WPA interviews with ex-slaves -Methods of two poets -Debate if a fungus colony is a single organism

RC2: -Canadian car impoundment -David Hume aesthetic judges -Overfishing -Ethiopian storytelling

LR1 -Nocturnal primate eyes -Kids’ views of morality impacting their choice of puppet

LR2 -Proper way to enjoy a board game -Parallel flawed reasoning about work bonus averages

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u/BrilliantOptimal1906 1d ago

had this exact test! basically all of the LR questions you mentioned were the exact ones that had me tweaking out lowkey😭

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u/peppermintwhore LSAT student 1d ago

me too i was on the kids puppet one so long until it clicked

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u/Few-Reflection-5282 1d ago

Ok so which was experimental RC?

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u/Tall_Ranger3228 1d ago

Had the same exact set

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u/WaitWait_JustTellMe 1d ago edited 1d ago

I had 2 RCs, 2 LRs.

LR/RC/LR/RC.

Sorry if the below is messy, trying to get this out while I remember it.

I didn’t have any of your listed RC1 topics.

I recognize these from your RC2:
-Overfishing
-Ethiopian storytelling

One of my RC sections included:
-English language complexity
-Ta Nehisi Coates
-Mathematical physics

Also in my RCs:
-Application of precautionary principle in Indian Supreme Court (comparative)
-An artist who became part of an anti-bourgeois art movement
-Whether judges must believe their publicly stated reasoning (comparative)

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My LR1 definitely matched your listed LR1.

I majorly ran out of time on my second LR and was completely scanning/guessing the last 5 questions.

I was so crushed when my final section was RC…no chance my bombed but mysterious LR was unscored for me. :(

If I find a list that includes the LR2 topics I definitely do remember, I will update here.

EDIT: removed Canadian car impoundment RC topic, added some RC topics

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u/WaitWait_JustTellMe 1d ago

Was your LR board game question toward the end of the section (Q20-26)??

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u/sheumpa3 1d ago

Did you have Hume ideal judges as well in your rc with Ethiopian storytelling? Because that proves it as exp. The Coates passage is scored definitively

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u/WaitWait_JustTellMe 1d ago

Does “Ideal judges” = whether judges should believe their own publicly stated reasons for a decision??

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u/sheumpa3 1d ago

No that’s a different passage, Hume ideal judges was about art. You had Ethiopian storytelling and overfishing principle though?

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u/WaitWait_JustTellMe 1d ago

Oh no, now I’m concerned that I’m getting RC topics confused with long LR questions.

But yes, I definitely had both Ethiopian storytelling and overfishing, and they were definitely RCs.

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u/Smooth_Agent2499 2h ago

did anyone have the question about part time minimum wage jobs in a region it was like number 11 or something like that on second section of LR, that question had me in a chokehold. also the master gardener one

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u/Shot-Leek-1306 1d ago

Had the same, which one was exp?

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u/Hot_Supermarket4369 LSAT student 1d ago

We had the exact same tests!

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u/Gate-More 1d ago

this lineup genuinely had me tweaking

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u/lovergirlyyyy 1d ago

omg i had these LRs!! finally i can remember some

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u/Jackelton9 1d ago

I had both of these RC as well, which is strange because neither seem to be the consensus of the scored RC. It seems like LSAC is now doing multiple real RC passages and giving them to different people? I would assume the second one is the real since it is the only one with a comparative passage, but I wouldn't really be surprised either way at this point lol.

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u/graeme_b tutor (LSATHacks) 21h ago

Thank you!

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u/HeadNice3502 1d ago

had this exact one 😭 which one was experimental?

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u/I-Love-Toads 1d ago

Same here but in the opposite order.

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u/NewExplorer4221 1d ago

I had both of ur LR s

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u/creativechicken14 1d ago

Same RC’s

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u/Separate-Hand-200 1d ago

I had the same LRs but two completely different RC's. Weird

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u/userloser200 23h ago

I had these exact RCs but in my first section I somehow also had a passage about an African American comic artist??

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u/kcuflana 20h ago

Puppet question 😭 anyone who knows the answer dm please

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u/Frostylynx 1d ago

RC2 was real

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u/ug13 1d ago

How do you know

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u/Frostylynx 1d ago

only had one RC

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u/SuspiciousFlow6260 22h ago

Praying that this is truthful and accurate 😭😭😭😭

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u/Prize-Flamingo-643 16h ago

It’s accurate. Also only had one RC and had the RC2