Advice for Test Week (Ep. 449)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The April LSAT is almost here. How should test-takers approach the final days leading up to their official test? Nathan and Ben advise listeners to treat test week like any other week of unhurried LSAT prep. Later, the guys explain why you shouldn’t skip tough questions. They shake their heads at UC Law SF’s solicitations. And they offer words of encouragement to a student who is concerned about how the elimination of Logic Games might impact their score.
1:03 - April LSAT - Treat test week like any other practice week. Treat the official test like any other practice test.
6:35 - LSAT Demon Is Hiring - Want to join the team? LSAT Demon is hiring teachers and writers. Visit lsat.link/apply to submit your application.
7:47 - Skipping Questions - Listener Harry disagrees with Nathan and Ben’s advice not to skip or flag difficult questions. The guys clarify their position and reaffirm their mantra: “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.”
14:52 - Should I Quit My Job? - Ben and Nathan counsel listener Emna not to let law school admissions dictate an important career decision.
22:36 - UC Law San Francisco - Nathan scorns his alma mater’s pleas for more money.
30:12 - Is Law School the Right Path? - The best law students are fierce academic competitors. Applicants with low undergraduate GPAs should think long and hard before entering the fray.
42:05 - LG Study Schedule - Nathan and Ben describe their own study habits for Logic Games.
46:10 - LG Anxiety - An anonymous listener dreads losing the Logic Games after the June LSAT. Ben and Nathan encourage Anonymous to stay optimistic.
53:39 - Word of the Week - The best logic games are Daedalian puzzles.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If your weakness, which is reading comp and logical reasoning, is giving you anxiety, |
| 0:07.0 | then turn that weakness into a strength. |
| 0:10.0 | Attack it head on. It head on. Hello and welcome to episode 449 of the All you got to do is share news or ask questions on our website thinking |
| 0:33.7 | Elsat.com. I've got a free class coming up. I hope everybody will come join. It's |
| 0:38.9 | April 18th at 6 p.m. Pacific 9 p.m. eastern. All I got to do is go to |
| 0:45.2 | El sat demon.com forward slash free if you want to register for that class. It's the |
| 0:50.0 | exact class that I teach twice two week nights per week at Elsat Demon. It's all levels, it's all topics, and I hope to see you all there. Again, that's |
| 1:00.0 | Elsat Demon.com, forward-slash, free. |
| 1:04.4 | April 12, 2024, the April-L-Sat begins. |
| 1:09.4 | So we got an L-Sat coming up in four days, Ben. What do I want to do different and special to make sure that I |
| 1:16.1 | Crank out the maximum improvement in the last four days before the Elsat? Yeah, we get this question all the time |
| 1:21.6 | You don't need to do anything special. If anything you're going to do less this week rather than more, if you do the same amount as you've always done, that's totally fine with me as well. |
| 1:33.0 | If you've been studying correctly, that means you haven't been overdoing it anyway. |
| 1:37.0 | So this week, you just keep doing that and then you go take the test whenever you take it. |
| 1:42.0 | There are people who try to do more, right? They do multiple tests this last week or they finally start their workout routine or getting up early or whatever don't do that just do what you've been doing |
| 1:58.0 | or do less yeah our primary messages that you should be treating every official test as if it's just another practice test. |
| 2:06.0 | And this is the best way to avoid test anxiety. It's funny that the people who have the worst test anxiety tend to do the exact opposite of that where they're the ones who clear their calendar. |
| 2:17.0 | Now they're the ones who take two weeks off of their job so that they can buckle down in the last two weeks. They're the ones who, they say things that betray like a |
| 2:29.3 | misunderstanding of what they're doing, they say something like, |
| 2:32.7 | this will be my first L-SAT. |
| 2:36.7 | It's not your first L-SAT. |
| 2:38.4 | I'm looking at your practice test record right now. |
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