Breaking Out of a Score Plateau (Ep. 434)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Nathan address a listener’s concerns about his stagnant test scores, providing guidance for improvement. Also on the show, the guys share insights on how to inform impatient family members about the reality of law school admissions. They express support for online law school. And they discuss the decades-long trend of undergraduate GPA inflation.
2:02 - Family Pressure - An anonymous listener is patiently pursuing a 170+ LSAT score, but their parents are hounding them to apply this cycle. Nathan and Ben suggest LSAT Demon Parent’s Night among other ways to educate family members about the law school admissions game.
6:04 - An Hour a Day - After improving his score by 20 points, listener Nate feels that he has reached a plateau. Ben and Nathan challenge Nate to remain consistent in his study schedule and to prioritize reviewing his mistakes.
18:55 - Online Law School - Nathan and Ben are proponents of online education—including online law school. They advise applicants to do their due diligence in selecting a school that’s right for their career goals.
25:13 - Sufficient Assumptions - The guys explain how to reliably predict answers to Sufficient Assumption questions in Logical Reasoning.
31:11 - RC Timing - Improving in Reading Comprehension isn’t a matter of timing, it’s a matter of understanding. Ben and Nathan urge a student to slow down and focus on accuracy.
34:40 - Grade Inflation - Law schools’ GPA medians ticked upward during the pandemic. Will they come back down? The guys review a recent New York Times article on undergraduate grade inflation and find no reason to expect that the trend will change.
42:41 - Applying Broadly - Nathan and Ben advise listener Brad on how to build a broad list of target schools with help from the LSAT Demon Scholarship Estimator.
46:13 - Vocabulary Corner - Be rapacious for a better LSAT score.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to episode 134 of the Thinking Elsap Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Ben Olson and with me is Nathan Fox. We're the co-founder of |
| 0:14.9 | Elsat Demon.com and the Elsat Demon Daily podcast. Be Elsat famous. You can share news and ask questions on our website that's thinking El-Sat.com. |
| 0:25.7 | You're gonna have a double black diamond Nathan on Wednesday January 24th at 9 PM Eastern. |
| 0:33.3 | That sounds like that's for everyone. |
| 0:35.8 | That's for everybody. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, that's gonna be a free version |
| 0:38.5 | of our expert level logical reasoning class |
| 0:41.6 | that we teach at, I teach it every other week or |
| 0:46.7 | sometimes every week it depends on demand for it. I'm really excited to have everybody |
| 0:52.2 | come and hang out while we do a whole bunch of hard-ish logical reasoning questions. |
| 0:58.0 | If you want to register for my double black diamond class on January 24th. |
| 1:02.5 | That's again 9 PM Eastern. |
| 1:05.4 | Just go to L-Sat. |
| 1:06.3 | link forward slash free if you want to sign up |
| 1:08.8 | for that free double Black Diamond class. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, very cool. |
| 1:13.6 | Okay, yeah, today's Christmas, tomorrow is December 26. |
| 1:16.8 | That's gonna be the registration deadline |
| 1:18.5 | for the February 2024, El-Sat. |
| 1:21.3 | Yeah, sign up for that if you are ready. |
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