Hello and

welcome to episode 217 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast.

In Los Angeles, I'm Nathan Fox.

With me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson.

Ben what's the latest? Your students crushed the L-Sat yesterday?

Oh yeah that is the latest. The L-Sat was yesterday. Yeah the feedback I've heard so far has been positive, but mixed as usual.

So, but I would say positive. It sounds like the games were a little bit easier than last time.

I haven't yet heard anything negative about it at all from anyone. I have

heard people going out of their way to tell me how f-n-easy it was. That's great. That's

really good. So yeah it makes me wonder why the L-SAT always is so it's why does it have to vary so much in difficulty it's like always the same but then it always, but then it's not because they do make the games

fluctuate a lot in difficulty.

Yeah, which I just, I'm wondering what they're, do they even know that they're doing that?

Yeah, do they have different people who are responsible for that section of games?

Like, different teams?

Like, George, you've got the September test. Yeah.

Janet you're in charge of the November test and then they just I mean it's not

substantively different but you can just like the logic game sections it's just clear that

You know that the prep test 88 the most recently released section

It wasn't as hard as everybody made it out to be but it's harder than a lot of recent tests yeah it just is I mean it has a

couple hard questions in it and most tests don't.

Yeah well I felt like each game was doable but there was like one twist in like not a

twist even it's just like a rule that's kind of rare maybe a rule I've seen once

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