Attack Each Argument (Ep. 493)

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

You don’t conquer the LSAT with fifty-fifty guesses. You do it by carefully solving each question. This week, Nathan and Ben outline their plan of attack in Logical Reasoning, counsel a student who’s feeling unmotivated to study, and identify a common cause of score plateaus.

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1:33 - Staying Motivated -An anonymous listener struggles to stay motivated for LSAT study. Nathan and Ben recommend prioritizing quality over quantity and pursuing activities outside of LSAT prep.

7:45 - Don’t Apply Late -Law schools’ application deadlines shouldn’t be on your radar. To maximize your chances, apply early and broadly.

16:45 - Attack Each Argument -The vast majority of arguments in Logical Reasoning are bad. Excellence in LR comes from attacking each argument and finding flaws.

32:31 - Gap-Year Employment -Any work experience can be good work experience. Law schools won’t look down on you for putting a retail job on your résumé.

36:10 - Timed Sections vs. Practice Tests -Do your scores from individual timed sections accurately reflect how you’d perform on the official test?

38:49 - Score Plateau -The guys diagnose the cause of listener Daniel’s score plateau: poor accuracy. They instruct Daniel to slow down and practice getting questions right.

44:16 - Thirsty Law Schools -The University of Tulsa College of Law is offering unsolicited full-ride scholarships to students with LSAT scores at or above 160.

53:55 - Word of the Week -Law students must master thepunctilio of legal writing.

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0:00.0	Wow. Okay. This is going to work out very poorly for you. Like, no credible law school is taking a June 2025 L-Sat to start that fall.
0:10.2	Yeah. There are many not credible law schools that wouldn't even do that.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to episode 493 of the Thinking Elseap podcast.
0:28.2	I'm Ben Olson.
0:30.1	With me is Nathan Fox.
0:35.0	We're the co-founders of Elsaid Demon.com and the Elside Demon Daily podcast.
0:40.5	Coming up, well, actually today, if you're listening to this podcast when it comes out, I'm going to be teaching a free class at 1 p.m. Eastern. So we'll be doing six
0:47.9	logical reasoning questions. You will have a chance to do them in class, and then I will go over them and show you how I read
0:56.4	each passage and try to object to the argument or make connections if there are just a set of facts
1:02.9	before even reading the question. Then I'll read the question, make a prediction, and go through the
1:08.8	five answer choices, hopefully eliminating them quickly.
1:13.3	If all things go well, that's what usually happens.
1:16.6	And then, of course, you can ask questions about whatever you want.
1:19.2	If there's time at the end, I'm happy to take questions on anything.
1:22.8	All you need is a demon free account,
1:24.6	and you can sign up for that at LSsat demon.com forward slash free.
1:29.3	Sounds good. Yeah. Cool. No, go do it. Yeah. What's on the agenda? Let's see here. Our first
1:35.2	email is from Anonymous. The subject is feeling lazy. It says, hi, Bena, Nathan. I graduated from my
1:41.8	undergrad in mid-December and I've been studying with the
1:44.2	demon and for the LSAT in general for just over a month now. I was making good progress in the
1:49.9	beginning and was super motivated to study, and I really did enjoy the test, but the days are
1:55.3	blurring into weeks, and now a month has gone by, and I can't get myself to study deeply.
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