Are LSAT Accommodations Unfair? (Ep. 446)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Testing accommodations are meant to give students with documented disabilities a fair shot. But recent LSAT scoring data suggests that the current time-and-a-half minimum might not level the playing field—it might give an unfair advantage to people with accommodations. Ben and Nathan discuss the problematic state of LSAT accommodations and what it means for students. Later, the guys weigh the costs and benefits of taking the test five times. They draft a short character and fitness addendum. And they urge students to avoid the comparison trap.
1:26 - Aiming for 175 - You don’t get points for answering questions quickly. You get points for answering questions correctly. Nathan and Ben instruct listener Manan to slow down and focus on accuracy.
12:43 - Accommodations - Ben and Nathan probe the history of LSAT accommodations and question the fairness of the current system.
34:43 - Downside to Retaking? - Listener Finn worries that law schools will judge him harshly for taking the LSAT five times. Nathan and Ben assure Finn that law schools only care about his highest score.
40:46 - Character and Fitness Addendum - The guys help an anonymous listener draft a short addendum to address a minor character and fitness issue.
43:43 - GPA Addendum - Ben and Nathan advise listener Emme not to write a GPA addendum that risks victim signaling.
50:27 - Tips from a Departing Demon - LSAT Demon alumna Sierra says: “Don’t get too caught up on the numbers and how everyone else is doing.”
51:47 - Words of the Week - Only when LSAT teachers cease their obscurantism may they find absolution.
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| 0:00.0 | Time and a half does not level the playing field and that's the minimum that they're allowed to approve now and that's just like it's laughable. I mean it's just absurd that somebody should have that much more time. Hello and welcome to episode 446 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Ben Olson and with me is Nathan Fox. |
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| 1:25.1 | Great. Yeah, we have an email here from Manan. The subject is 175 target score. |
| 1:32.4 | Hello, some days back, I subscribed to the demon and have already started seeing progress. |
| 1:39.0 | My diagnostic score was a 152 and my target score range is between 173 and 175. |
| 1:47.0 | Very specific goal there, huh? |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.0 | Currently I'm getting seven questions wrong |
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