Are Older Logic Games Harder? (Ep. 321)

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

More admissions questions have been rolling in, so Ben and Nathan kick off today’s show by diving into the mailbag. They answer questions about logic games and discuss how their difficulty has changed over the history of the test. They also offer some encouragement to low-GPA applicants. Later, they take on a Necessary Assumption question that they deem a true five-star question, and they announce the arrival of Demon dark mode.

2:55 - Are Older Logic Games Harder?

Listener Shannon wants to know if the older logic games (specifically, those on tests 1–50) are harder than those on newer tests. Ben believes that the games became easier starting around test 40. They were more difficult on tests released before then. Nathan adds to this by discussing the newest logic games section to be released. All four games on test 92 were very easy. The guys encourage Shannon to practice games from all tests no matter when they were released, especially if she is not yet scoring 100% on the logic games. They remind listeners that if you do the work, you can learn to solve logic games and get that perfect score.

23:05 - Low GPAs

Three listeners share their concerns about applying to law school with a less-than-stellar undergraduate GPA. Nathan starts by reading an email from Sean, who expresses frustration with how LSAC has calculated his cumulative GPA. He is wondering if he should apply early decision to boost his chance of being admitted. He also questions how much a GPA addendum would actually affect his application.

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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. Yes. thinking El-Sat Podcast. Today we had a bit of a mailbag. We went through a question about
0:25.7	logic games, whether the difficulty has changed significantly and whether old games are
0:31.0	representative of what you're likely to see on the modern test.
0:35.0	We had three emails from people who were asking essentially low GPA questions.
0:42.0	You know, my GPA sucks, am I precluded from going to law school?
0:47.0	We have three different angles on that question.
0:51.4	It's kind of ironic, right? One of the correspondence has a 2.27
0:56.7	undergraduate GPA which is low by anyone's standards. Someone else had a 3.5 Elsack GPA and considers it low and it is low depending on your standards,
1:10.9	depending on what kind of a level of legal practice you're shooting for
1:18.8	but but we did arrive at the conclusion that even a 2.27 is not enough to keep you out of law school necessarily.
1:26.5	If you get the right else at you can absolutely go to law school with any GPA.
1:31.8	Yeah. We also did a question from Prep Test 73.
1:37.2	It turned out to be a necessary assumption question with one very tricky wrong answer. I think that that's a really a pretty good teaching question for a level
1:46.4	five difficulty necessary assumption question.
1:51.1	Cool. Yeah, the only thing I want to say before we dive in is the show will air on
1:58.0	Monday, October 25th, which means that you don't really have any deadlines coming
2:02.2	up.
2:03.0	The November L-SAT is the week of the 13th of November.
2:06.9	The next registration deadline is not until December 3rd.
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