Ep. 198: LSAT Retake Limits

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, LSAC lifted the limits on how many tests you could take—giving all test-takers carte blanche to take the test as many times as they needed to get the score they were after. But now they’re changing course again. The guys take a look at the new “retake” policy so you can put a new LSAT strategy in place. The guys also take a look at a listener’s personal statement, and jump in to the first LR question of the December 2013 LSAT. Plus, you’ll hear about how Nathan lost all sense of space and time on a recent boating adventure.

June 27 – June scores are released via email

July 15 – It’s ye olde July LSAT

August 1 – The last day to sign up for the September LSAT

August 28 – July scores are released via email

September 21 – The September LSAT

As always, if you like the show and you want to get more from the Thinking LSAT community, check out the links below. You can connect with other folks studying for the LSAT, and get more useful resources from Nathan and Ben.

Thinking LSAT Facebook Group Instagram (upcoming events) LSAT Demon Strategy Prep Fox LSAT Personal Statement Review Package

4:19 – Demon Updates

Ben and the rest of the LSAT Demon team have been hard at work and they’re getting ready to roll out some new features. First, when you log in you can now upgrade to Premium. What’s Premium, you ask? Premium gives you access to all of the most recent tests. So if you’re itching to have the latest tests to practice with, or you just feel like you need more out of the Demon, this is for you.

The team is also working on a feature that will enable you to join groups and take a practice test that simulates an actual test day. You’ll log in, join a group, and be greeted by a proctor who will control the timer and will move you through a full test. Nathan and Ben are checking in to a live proctored practice test on Sunday, June 30. If you want to take it, email [email protected] to RSVP. And if you’re not a Demon user? Now’s the perfect time to sign up for a 7-day free trial so you can join in on the fun on 6/30.

8:02 – LSAC Re-take Update

The LSAC is changing their policy with regards to how many LSAT attempts you can make during your lifetime, dear friends. It’s only been a few years since they created a policy under which you could take the test as many times as you damn well please. But clearly that hasn’t worked out for them. Nathan and Ben work through the veritable Logic Game of an email that LSAC sent to decode the changes. Here’s the skinny on the new policy—you can:

Take a maximum of 3x tests in a year

Take a maximum of 5 or 6 times in the past five years (the email isn’t clear)

Take a maximum of 7x tests in your lifetime

Only score 180 one time—then ya done!

The new policy begins on 9/21/19! Happy testing, y’all!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 198 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Los Angeles.
0:11.9	I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna,
0:13.6	Virginia, Ben Olson. Hey Ben, I have to apologize for Tuesday morning,
0:19.8	snafu. I'm considering your apology yes no for the listeners I on Tuesday
0:31.5	on Tuesday morning I was traveling I was at my buddy's place in Lake Tahoe and I had had a wonderful day on Monday we got this invitation to go out on a friend of a friend's boat and we did a full lap of Lake Tahoe in this like
0:46.8	1961 wood-sided powerboat. It was it was nuts. I boy I've been to Lake Tahoe before but I've never been on like a lap around the lake on a powerboat. Yeah and And that lake is gigantic and spectacularly beautiful and it was just this like I didn't even know a planet I was on and so then on Tuesday morning I just didn't answer the
1:14.9	bell. Ben was waiting for me to record the podcast and I was just like didn't
1:20.7	know what day it was, hadn't looked at my email, like did nothing, just full on vacation
1:25.3	mode, so we had to reschedule, so I do apologize for that, Ben.
1:29.9	No worries.
1:30.9	The funny part was I texted you and then I think I didn't hear back and then and then I just got like this normal everyday email
1:38.0	You know blah blah blah. This is what I'm thinking'm like, wait, what's he doing?
1:43.2	Oh, so I had, I did get up and was like doing, I just like was checking my email.
1:47.3	I was just drinking coffee and like sort of like, all right, well, let me clean up some of these
1:50.4	emails and they're like, oh shit, I forgot, it's Tuesday. Well, I did look it up,
1:56.4	Ben, I had to try to find our, I was telling friends about it, this story and I was kind of laughing
2:01.1	about it and I was like, I just like to be reliable you know I like to answer the bell and I had to look it up and we are now over the five year mark then I don't know if you realized that, but we started the
2:13.3	podcast sometime in 2014. Oh, okay. And I think that was the first time that I completely
2:18.9	spaced on a recording. We've had other snafuos along the way, but I think that's the first time that I absolutely forgot about a show.
2:28.0	So I get, do you give me once every five years? Of course, yeah. I'm sure I've missed more than that, so.
2:34.0	No, I don't think you ever just like straight forgot.
2:37.0	We've had technical difficulties and other things along the way, but that was, that's a new one. Okay, today on the show we we're
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