Building Confidence in Reading Comprehension (Ep. 413)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Perfect accuracy on LSAT Reading Comprehension is within your reach. LSAT Demon teacher Chris Murphy joins Nathan to help listeners maximize their potential in RC. Chris and Nathan describe what confidence looks like in RC and why it’s crucial to success. They also praise the shift to online education, consider possible downsides to retaking the LSAT, and assess a Pearls vs. Turds candidate about leaving answer choices open.
0:00 - August LSAT Pretest Pump-Up - Chris and Nathan invite August test takers to LSAT Demon’s Pretest Pump-Up on August 9. Come meet fellow test takers and get last-minute tips from LSAT Demon teachers. All you need to join is an LSAT Demon Free account.
3:27 - Online Law School - An anonymous listener worries that attending an online law school could hurt their networking opportunities. The guys explain why the opposite might actually be true. Nathan maintains that the future of law school and the legal profession is online.
31:48 - Building Confidence - An anonymous LSAT Demon student struggles to commit to answer choices in Reading Comprehension, frequently double-checking answer choices they’ve already eliminated. Nathan and Chris suggest how Anonymous can find some RC swagger.
47:14 - Perfect Accuracy in RC - Listener Joe has yet to achieve perfect accuracy on RC passages despite slowing down. Chris and Nathan remind Joe that slowing down is not enough. Start predicting answers, and embrace the idea that on Reading Comprehension, they’re all Must Be Trues.
57:12 - Downside to Retaking? - Is there ever a downside to retaking? Some listeners question Nathan and Ben’s recent advice about whether to retake a 174. Nathan reiterates that as long as law schools only care about your highest scores, there’s really only upside to retaking.
1:33:43 - Pearls vs. Turds - Chris and Nathan assess a student’s advice on not eliminating answer choices too quickly.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 413 at the Thinking Elseat Podcast. I'm Nathan Fox. With me is Chris Murphy. Ben is at the lake this week. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm one of the founders of Elsat demon.com alongside Ben Olson. |
| 0:20.8 | Chris has been teaching with us now for what, Chris, you've been around for over a year, right? |
| 0:26.5 | Not quite. I think I'm coming up on a year pretty soon, maybe September, I think will be my one year. |
| 0:31.8 | Okay, so coming up on a year teaching for the demon and have recently stepped into more of a leadership |
| 0:38.1 | role with us at the demon helping us to manage teachers and brainstorm class ideas. |
| 0:45.0 | You've come up with some very creative ideas inside the demon. |
| 0:49.4 | Maybe you could talk about a couple of your classes a little bit |
| 0:51.8 | just to give people a flavor of what kind of stuff you've been doing at I'll set, do you man? |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, so I've got some of my regular classes. The newest one that I'm excited about is called the final passage. It's our advanced RC class. We have a student request for a couple more advanced |
| 1:06.0 | classes. We saw there as a gap for our student plug that in. Students have been loving it and they put the |
| 1:10.9 | work in. Sometimes they sweat in the class, but it's really good. And then I also like to do a lot of fun |
| 1:16.0 | classes, one-offs. Last year we had a holiday party at El-Sat Demonore and worked hard to find any and all L-S-Sat-L-R questions that mentioned anything to do with the holidays winter cookies buying |
| 1:27.4 | gifts all of that we threw it together and it was a lot of fun so the main point is any |
| 1:32.3 | cool ideas you have as a student |
| 1:33.9 | send them my way. I love to make it happen. Yeah generally we love hearing ideas |
| 1:38.0 | from all of our students. Chris mentioned that we have had some requests for some more advanced level classes so we have added those in El sat Demon Live recently. |
| 1:48.4 | We've got I believe we have advanced classes now for LR for games for reading comprehension and basically whatever our students |
| 1:55.0 | ask us for we add more of those. |
| 1:58.1 | If you like what you hear today from Chris, we have a free event coming up Wednesday, August 9th. |
| 2:03.8 | That is at, what time is that, 3 PM Pacific? |
| 2:09.8 | Chris has his cursor there in my Google Doc, |
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