LSAT Flex Converter

[Rbastien995]

Hey!

So I took a prep test in the Flex format and I received my score, which wasn’t the best. I found this converter on Powerscore and it is showing me a raw score completely different from my score after my test. The raw score that came from the converter is much more feasible than what the prep test page showed me. So I just want to know what score I should rely on more, the Powerscore On demand PT score or my score coming from this converter. I take my test in November, so I would like to know where I really stand because seeing these two scores is making me a bit unsure.

No judgement please... I received a 145 score/35 raw score on my practice test (December 2011). I put in the same correct answers and number of questions into the Powerscore converter and got a 67 which comes out to be about a 157. So is it safe to say that my score was a 157 and not a 145?

I hope this is clear, thank you!

[Jon Denning]

Hi Rbastien - thanks so much for posting, and certainly no judgments

I'm a little confused as to exactly what's occurred here, but I'm sure we can get to the bottom of it! If you took December 2011 as Flex and got a raw score of 35, then that would convert to a regular (four-section) raw test score of 47. And on the December 2011 test 47 right was a 145. So that initial result of 145 is correct.

My confusion comes from the 67 raw (which is actually a 156 on December 2011). When I use our converter at https://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/lsat-f ... our-tests/ to create a total number of 35 correct answers, it properly converts it to a scaled raw of 47, again resulting in a 145. A scaled 67 raw would require about 50 correct answers on the Flex...so if you don't mind, could you tell me where the 67 raw, scaled score came from? Is it possible perhaps that in using the converter just linked some of the numbers—either the question counts in each section or the number correct—were entered incorrectly?

Thanks in advance for letting me know!

[Rbastien995]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for responding! So I used this converter: https://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/lsat-f ... our-tests/ . I put in my correct answers and amount of questions in each section, the converter then produced 67 raw score. So does that mean that I actually got a raw score of a 67 and not a 35?

[Rbastien995]

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[Rbastien995]

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And this is my score on Powerscore On Demand PT.

[Rbastien995]

Hey Jon,

I wanted to clear this up. So I just looked at my score overview, and I think something is wrong with the new website layout. When looking at just your answers and selecting hide answers the website only highlighted some of my answers that were wrong and that it how I got that score. When you select show answers it shows me more incorrect compared to the other answer view tab.

Thanks

[Rbastien995]

Jon here is an example. First photo is showing correct answers and the second is hiding. It shows I got two wrong on one(show correct answers) and one wrong on the second view (hide correct answers)

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[Jon Denning]

Let me try to take this in parts, as there's a lot to unpack here

First, if you got 18 + 18 + 15 correct on your Flex for a raw score of 51, that does convert to a scaled raw score of 67. And 67 correct on December 2011 is a 156.

I guess my confusion comes, at least in part, from the 51 vs 35 Flex raw score discrepancy. I see that the test page is showing a raw score of 35 (which is a 145), but I don't understand why there's a difference; why, that is, the results show 35 correct but you're also calculating 51 correct for the same test and answer choices. Is that because it appears 51 are correct when you hide the correct answers? I'll elaborate on that further below, but in short trust the results you see when the correct answers are shown and the system auto-tabulates how many you answered correctly (which sounds like a raw 35).

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious here! Just want to be sure that (1) I give you the right answers to your questions, and (2) I fix anything that might be a problem in how those results are being scored.

As for the scoring system and the images posted...I'm going to have to look into that further. For one, the image with the correct answers hidden shouldn't highlight that row with question 4 at all, even if you missed it. I just took December 2011 myself to test this out (I actually took it to get 35 total correct, which it showed as a 145) and it displayed correctly—with Correct Answers hidden I could see my responses but not their accuracy—so I'm stumped as to why it's displaying the way it is for you.

Regardless, comparing the answers you selected to the correct answers for that test will tell you how many you answered correctly, and thus your raw score. If it's 35 right then the score is a 145. If it's 51 right then the score is a 156.

Sorry again for the confusion!