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🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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If you’re not already predicting the answer to every Sufficient Assumption question on the LSAT, you’re wasting time and leaving easy points on the table. Nathan and Ben explain why these questions are so predictable and how you can learn to master them. Today’s action-packed episode also includes updates on the August LSAT, Pearls vs. Turds, a discussion about law schools paying students to defer enrollment, and a question about whether you should care more about a school’s overall ranking or their ranking in a specialty program. Read more on our website!
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0:00.0 | The following podcast contains bad language. |
0:03.0 | Not bad at language, like Trump's lawyers. |
0:07.0 | Bad language, like naughty words. |
0:09.0 | Cover your ears, I guess. lots of good stuff on the show today. We had an update from Elsack announcing weirdly |
0:27.5 | announcing different dates than they had previously and I don't know what they're confusing anyway we have some new updates we did a |
0:36.6 | sufficient assumption question a logical reasoning question from prep test |
0:40.8 | 73 if you're not already perfect on sufficient assumption questions man that is a huge opportunity and you really need to get there |
0:48.4 | So hopefully that discussion will be helpful we did a couple different purls versus turds. Unsurprisingly, a lot of bad |
0:59.3 | El-Sat advice out there. We had a whole email full of turds from Cooley Law School. |
1:05.0 | Sadly. And then we delve into a bunch of stuff in the mail bag. |
1:11.0 | We had the New York Times article about law schools being over enrolled |
1:15.7 | for this cycle and offering people thousands of dollars tens of thousands of |
1:20.8 | dollars to not go to law school this year. |
1:23.9 | That's a new one. |
1:25.2 | Have you ever seen anything like that in your career? |
1:27.3 | Nope. |
1:28.0 | First time ever. |
1:28.8 | Yeah, it's new. |
1:30.9 | Yeah. |
1:31.9 | And then we had a question about if you want to practice IP law, should you pay attention to the overall rankings or should you pay attention to the specialized IP rankings, which Ben just cringed. He made a face about how terrible it is to pay attention to those stupid specialized rankings. |
1:51.0 | We agreed that you should go to the best law school you can go to for free. |
1:55.0 | Before we dive in, just a couple of dates. |
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