Frequency of answer choice A being correct

[lolioamozi]

I've missed a few questions now, because I'm skeptical of answer choice A being correct, especially when it seems obvious. I imagine the psychometricians would be delighted to hear this, but I was wondering if I could circumvent this fear with numbers. On past disclosed LSATs, how often is answer choice A correct? Is it comparatively less than the other answers, or evenly distributed? I know our friends at Powerscore maintain massive databases of LSAT info that they've tracked over the years, so is there any chance that data is available? Just something I've been wondering about.

[Adam Tyson]

Great question, and yes, we have the data! You can find it in this blog post about guessing strategy:

https://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/guessing.cfm

The short answer is that A is correct almost 20% of the time, as you would expect if it were totally random. But if you are looking at the last 5 questions in a section, the stats change a lot. For LR and RC, A becomes the least likely answer, while in LG it's the most common!