r/LSAT • u/JonDenningLSAT • 1d ago

Jon's October LSAT Recap Podcast

The full episode should be live on Youtube and Spotify. Links and timestamps below. Hope it's helpful!

Youtube: https://youtu.be/q9KWkp1Jx3w

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4dlJVLCrD5fK57eiN3Avap?si=-e3scV5KTYmsR1Ml2UkNuQ&nd=1&dlsi=fd5cef130d0a4cbb

Timestamps:

Intro: 0:00-2:30

Some Updates from Jon: 2:31-8:00

Recent Test Changes: 8:01-20:00

Reading Comprehension: 20:01-43:29

Logical Reasoning: 43:30-56:14

Make Up Tests: 56:15-End

And for those unfamiliar, this is a complete breakdown of the October 2026 LSAT, including the odd nature of how test sections are now being created, all eight scored and two experimental Reading Comprehension passages, and about 50 scored Logical Reasoning questions spanning every section. And a special discussion at the end covering the Make Up tests!

15 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

29 comments sorted by

12

u/North_Quote_6649 1d ago

Wait the current test setup is so confusing… Jon said the bus route one is real but my other two sections also have questions he said are real🫨🫨🫨

5

u/MoodyHong 1d ago

The same

1

u/Chrysoprase89 1d ago

Yep I had 3 LR sections and he mentioned questions I’m 99% sure we’re spread across all 3. I only remember 1-2 questions per section so it’s possible I’m misattributing them but I really don’t think so :-|

2

u/North_Quote_6649 20h ago

I think you didn’t remember it wrong! I remember a lot of questions and I’m sure nearly all of them were in my first two lr sections, and none of them were in my last section(the super hard one with the bus route question)

1

u/JonDenningLSAT 21h ago

If you can tell me more topics I might be able to help

Every question I listed came from people who had two LRs, so I know each was used as a scored question.

2

u/Content_Attention816 tutor 8h ago

Curious to hear what the update here is. Case of similar content but different questions?

1

u/North_Quote_6649 20h ago

Sure! Dmed you!

7

u/BigKahuna883 1d ago

so all the questions in each section are no longer either scored or unscored? am I misunderstanding?

1

u/JonDenningLSAT 21h ago

Unless they’ve started mixing real and exp together in the same section—and this is something I touched on and said I find unlikely—then it should be that all content in a section is either real or not. It’s just that scored questions in LR (and I suppose experimentals too) can move around and be recombined. And as we saw with RC in September single passages can be replaced with new passages to make additional groups of four. A lot of moving parts.

3

u/SecretAd2744 1d ago

john so you think the elk passage section was not too easy nor difficult making the curve to be -7?

1

u/JonDenningLSAT 21h ago

That’s my take on it, yes

1

u/SecretAd2744 21h ago

thx however if one gets hard lr sections it could go down to -8 or -9?

3

u/skym926 1d ago

Yeah ima just go ahead & buy the score preview 🫠

1

u/27mwtobias27 1d ago

You know they still see a cancel if you cancel it.

3

u/DaveKilloran 1d ago

True, but they don't know why you cancelled. Maybe you had minor technical issues that threw you off. A single cancel has zero impact on how they view your scores.

1

u/27mwtobias27 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, but I think it's not a fair product. A cancel should disappear like it never happened. That would be the right way to offer it. They don't make it easy on candidates!

2

u/DaveKilloran 1d ago

I don't disagree but that's a different point :) In this case score preview looks like the right option.

1

u/skym926 1d ago

Agreed, but I tested in August & if I score lower I’d rather they see a cancel

2

u/wek12345 1d ago

Boi

2

u/wek12345 1d ago

Literally don’t got shit else to say but boi

2

u/SamuelHorton 1d ago

So, the nightmarish metaphysics passage is not experimental?

3

u/Several-Look 1d ago

Was so far ahead on timing until I hit this one

2

u/JonDenningLSAT 21h ago

I’m afraid not. Definitely scored.

1

u/coffee0008 1d ago

pls this is making me so scared for November

1

u/damageinthesheets 6h ago

thank you Jon, you’re the best

1

u/ForzaFerrari1655 4h ago

Do we know if the bus routes question mentioned here is outlying bus routes? If there’s not a separate bus routes question it’s confusing because I had topics from here in 3 of my sections

1

u/englishbfasttea 1d ago

I had a LR section that had these three questions in it:

-MBT about about dance schools that taught jazz and modern dancing

-MBT about a student needing to choose a biology or humanities class

-question about corporations showing morality in society

Does anyone know if these questions were in scored sections?