1L Prep (Angela Vorpahl) (Ep. 406)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
As the fall semester approaches, incoming 1Ls may wonder how to prepare themselves for law school. On this week’s episode, Nathan and Ben are joined by Angela Vorpahl, creator of the Law School Master Plan. Angela lays out what new law students should (and shouldn’t) do to build the skills they’ll need throughout law school.
0:00 - Testing Limits - Beginning with the August 2023 LSAT, test takers will no longer be restricted to three attempts per application cycle. You can take the LSAT up to five times in five years and seven times in a lifetime. Read LSAC’s policy on repeating the test here.
6:30 - What You Won’t Learn in Law School - Not only does law school not teach you what it takes to succeed in legal practice, it doesn’t teach you what it takes to succeed in law school. Angela Vorphal started her YouTube channel and consulting business to address that knowledge gap. She joins the guys to discuss why it’s crucial to go into law school with a plan to approach your study efficiently and with a focus on what really matters.
23:48 - How to Prepare for Law School - Angela explains why incoming law students should focus on strategies to hone their approach to law school rather than try to learn the substantive law on their own. Angela also shares some career development tasks that 1Ls can tackle to get a leg up on the competition.
52:53 - Application Timing - How late is too late to apply? Ben and Nathan double down on their advice to apply early. They implore students to decouple their LSAT study from any application timeline.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 406 of the Thinking El-Sap podcast. I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox. We're the co-founders of |
| 0:15.8 | El-Sat Demon.com and the El-Sat Demon Daily podcast. Big update here. We actually got |
| 0:21.5 | this question from Alex. The question is, hi Ben and Nathan, |
| 0:26.8 | thanks for your assistance in getting prepared for the L-SAT. The demon has been |
| 0:30.9 | very helpful. A question for you. It appears that Elsack has removed the limit |
| 0:36.5 | on taking the test three times per testing cycle. Am I reading this right? And then Alex provides us a link? |
| 0:43.6 | Thank you, Alex, first of all, for asking us this. |
| 0:47.4 | I did not know about this until you |
| 0:50.4 | sent in this question with Sam on our team called Elsack to verify but yes |
| 0:57.8 | the three test limit per cycle is now gone. |
| 1:02.0 | What about five times in five years? |
| 1:04.0 | That's still there. |
| 1:05.0 | So you can only take the test five times, |
| 1:08.0 | lifetime maximum, but three per artificial cycle is now gone. |
| 1:15.7 | Is now gone, which makes things much easier. |
| 1:18.4 | Thank Jesus. |
| 1:20.4 | Now wait, I should clarify, |
| 1:21.6 | this is starting with the August |
| 1:23.4 | Elsat so does that matter at all? |
| 1:25.8 | I don't know who cares let's assume it's gone I mean I hope to God that that is gone because we how much like if you went back through the history of the thinking else that podcast all 400 whatever episodes. |
| 1:42.0 | What do you think the total elapsed time is that we have been explaining how the three times per cycle explaining how that works? |
| 1:51.0 | Good three hours at least. |
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