Are Your Reviewing Properly? (Ep. 459)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Some LSAT students think that more time studying equals faster improvement. But the equation isn’t that simple. This week, Nathan and Ben advocate a less-is-more approach to LSAT study, centered on carefully reviewing one mistake at a time. The guys also discuss lawyers’ work-life balance, highlighting in Reading Comprehension, and the importance of an applicant’s undergraduate major in law school admissions.
1:41 - Quality Over Quantity - Ben and Nathan encourage an anonymous listener not to give up on LSAT study. They emphasize the importance of thoroughly reviewing mistakes over drilling a high volume of questions.
9:44 - Work-Life Balance - The legal profession is notorious for its lopsided work-life balance. Are there any lawyer jobs that offer a more reasonable quality of life?
15:27 - Highlighting in RC - Listener Alex proposes a strategy for highlighting key words in Reading Comprehension. Nathan and Ben worry that highlighting might be a crutch for not reading carefully.
23:38 - RC Plateau - Ben and Nathan advise listener Nick to ditch his complicated strategies for Reading Comprehension and to practice breaking down complex sentences into digestible chunks.
34:10 - Undergrad Major - An applicant’s undergraduate major generally has little impact on their law school admissions outcomes.
38:01 - Question Types - There’s no such thing as mastering a question type. Nathan and Ben instruct listener Manan to focus on correcting individual mistakes rather than analyzing trends in practice test scores.
47:19 - Accommodations - Students with approved testing accommodations should practice with those same accommodations.
51:12 - Tips from a Departing Demon - LSAT Demon student Dylan believes that “improvement isn't made when doing questions, but rather carefully reviewing every single question you get wrong.”
53:10 - Word of the Week - Avoid paying for law school.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You've tried everything, reading the questions first, |
| 0:03.4 | ranking the passages, I mean you've done all kinds of things that are |
| 0:07.1 | allegedly supposed to help you with speed. |
| 0:10.0 | I think you need to throw all of these techniques out the window. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 459 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Nathan Fox. |
| 0:25.0 | With me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:26.0 | We're the co-founder of Elsat Demon. |
| 0:28.0 | com and the Elsat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | You can be Elsat Famous by sharing news or asking questions on our website |
| 0:35.4 | thinking El-Sat.com. We've got a free class coming up now in July. Well, sure, first. Ben, how was your free class that you did yesterday? |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, it was a lot of fun. It was reading comp and then I stayed after to do the bonus logical reasoning, |
| 0:52.0 | but a lot of good questions as usual. |
| 0:54.7 | A lot of good reviews as usual. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.9 | People loved the class. |
| 1:00.6 | They can see a recording of that if they sign up for a free account on |
| 1:04.4 | Elsat demon.com go to elsat demon.com forward slash free and you'll learn about |
| 1:08.8 | all of our free upcoming classes we do about one a month |
| 1:13.4 | so that you can get a taste of the type of thing |
| 1:15.6 | that you would get at Elset Demon. |
| 1:18.1 | The next one coming up is a, I'm really excited about this one. |
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