Am I Ready to Take the LSAT? (Ep. 464)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The LSAT is a rigorous test of reading comprehension and critical reasoning. Do you understand the information on the page? And do you know what must be true on the basis of that information? Also on the show, Nathan and Ben discuss GPA addendums, supplemental essays, and law school price discrimination.
3:24 - When Am I Ready? - Don’t register for the LSAT until you’re happy with your practice test scores.
15:43 - Logical Opposites - Are success and failure logical opposites? Does “unlikely” simply mean “not likely”? It depends.
25:01 - Two Fundamental Skills - Ben and Nathan break down two critical skills that form the foundation of LSAT mastery.
40:26 - Master’s Degree - Nathan and Ben question an anonymous listener’s decision to pursue a master’s degree.
44:41 - GPA Addendum - Nobody wants to hear excuses for your bad grades.
50:47 - Supplemental Essays - If a supplemental essay allows you to write something positive about yourself, write the essay. Otherwise, skip it.
53:19 - The LAST Is Easy - An anonymous listener embraces LSAT Demon’s intuitive approach to the LSAT.
57:49 - Price Discrimination - Many businesses employ price discrimination. Law schools are no different. Ben and Nathan urge applicants to take advantage of an unfair system.
1:08:33 - Word of the Week - Student loan policies fail to consider that schools might behave like knaves.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The L-sette fundamentally comes down to I think two skills. |
| 0:04.0 | One, do you understand exactly what each sentence said? |
| 0:09.0 | Nothing more, nothing less? |
| 0:11.0 | And then do you understand what must be true |
| 0:15.1 | on the basis of that claim, |
| 0:17.8 | nothing more, nothing less? Hello and welcome to episode 464 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast. I'm Nathan Fox. With me is Ben Olson. We're the co-founder of |
| 0:34.2 | Elsat demon.com and the Elsat demon daily podcast. You can be Elsat famous by |
| 0:38.6 | sharing news or asking questions on our website thinking Elsat.com. |
| 0:44.0 | Go to Elsat demon.com slash free for all sorts of free resources including invitations to free |
| 0:51.1 | Elsat classes. |
| 0:52.2 | There's an upcoming Elsat registrar. to free ELSAT classes. |
| 0:55.0 | There's an upcoming ELSAT registration deadline that you should be aware of. |
| 0:57.0 | Tomorrow on Tuesday, July 23rd |
| 1:02.0 | is the deadline for the September 2024, L-SAT. Pretty simple math on that. If you're |
| 1:09.0 | happy with your timed practice test scores, then go ahead and register for the September |
| 1:14.0 | or else at. If you're not happy with your timed practice test scores, then please |
| 1:18.5 | don't waste the money, don't waste your Saturday, don't waste your time or energy, don't put bad scores on your |
| 1:26.4 | official record. Your practice tests won't lie. So register if your practice tests indicate |
| 1:31.7 | that you should, if and only if your practice tests indicate that you should. |
| 1:34.0 | If and only if your practice tests indicate that you should. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, this is one of those tests that people are gonna be tempted to do it |
| 1:42.1 | even if they're not ready, |
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