Embrace Score Variance (Ep. 465)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Score variance isn’t a problem—it’s an opportunity. Nathan and Ben encourage LSAT students to pursue the upside of their score range by taking the test multiple times. The guys also share a key to getting faster at Reading Comprehension. They assure a conflicted student that it’s OK to pivot away from law school. And they lay out an approach to Logical Reasoning that balances caution and confidence.
3:23 - Score Variance - Don’t aim to eliminate score variance in your practice tests. Score variance is your friend if you commit to taking the LSAT multiple times.
10:04 - What’s an Assumption? - Ben and Nathan explain the difference between necessary assumptions and sufficient assumptions.
20:17 - Rereading RC Passages - Skimming your reading assignments might have worked for you in college, but it won’t cut it in LSAT Reading Comprehension.
28:31 - Improving RC Timing - Want to get faster at RC? Spend less time debating wrong answers.
34:05 - Passive Skill Acquisition - A new study suggests that passive exposure to a skill can help you improve more quickly. Nathan and Ben discuss the implications for LSAT study.
40:27 - Staying Motivated - Listener Olivia lacks the motivation to study consistently. Ben and Nathan question whether she really wants to go to law school.
52:31 - Check Every Answer - Even if you predict the correct answer, you still have to check the wrong ones.
1:03:38 - Word of the Week - Critics agree: This week’s podcast was a success.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My hypothesis at this point is that your competitors want this more than you do. |
| 0:04.0 | If you don't want this, then don't do it. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to episode 465 of the Thinking Elsap Podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Ben Olson and with me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:21.0 | We're the co-founders of Elsat Demon.com and the Elsat Demon Daily Podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | Be Elsat famous, share news and ask questions on our website, thinking Elsat.com. |
| 0:31.7 | Just around the corner, next week we have the August 2024 |
| 0:35.1 | L-sat a week after that on Tuesday August 13th we have a free logical reasoning class with Kevin. |
| 0:45.4 | The class is called guilty or not guilty, |
| 0:48.5 | LR. |
| 0:49.5 | I've never been to his class, |
| 0:51.4 | but I am guessing that Kevin is looking at the arguments and logical reasoning and deciding whether they're valid or invalid good or bad guilty or not guilty. |
| 1:01.7 | That's it in a nutshell. Yeah, it's really the key to our approach to |
| 1:06.6 | logical reasoning is just to attack the arguments. I mean, if there's an argument there it's guilty 99 not not 99 90 percent of the time it's |
| 1:17.1 | guilty of being an incomplete argument an imperfect argument, |
| 1:23.6 | sometimes outright flawed argument. |
| 1:27.4 | So it's critical that you're able to read, |
| 1:30.0 | you know, those pretty short passages really on logical reasoning it's two three |
| 1:35.6 | four sentences maybe and figure out is there a conclusion here is that conclusion justified by the facts or not? And that's what guilty or not is about. |
| 1:50.3 | I love that they focus on the core skill. I mean that's that's really where everything comes down to. |
| 1:55.0 | They can sign up at elsad demon.com forward slash free. |
| 1:59.0 | Again that's elsad demon.com forward slash free. |
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