Ep. 228: News from the January LSAT

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The winter winds are sweeping across the land. The January LSAT is behind us all. Now it’s time to wrap yourself in a blanket, sit in your rocker by the fire, and hear the latest in all things LSAT from Nathan and Ben. The guys talk about the first reports back from the January LSAT—and it sounds like the test was (drumroll, please) easy. as. pie. They also hear a few heart-warming stories from listeners about LSAC test-center fails and law-school-scholarship wins. Plus, Nathan and Ben consider a new reading comp “memory method,” they make some recommendations about taking consecutive tests, they clear up some confusion about their own personal statement advice, and offer some thoughts about law school financial aid. And as a little winter treat for you at the end? The guys read a very new year’s email update from our old friend Dean Faigman of UC Hastings. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 28 of the Thinking El-Sap Podcast in Vienna, Virginia.
0:12.8	This is Ben Olson.
0:13.8	With me is Nathan Fox in Los Angeles.
0:17.0	How's it going, Nathan?
0:18.3	Good, yesterday was the January El-Sat.
0:21.0	Did you hear anything from anybody? I heard it was easy. Yeah, I heard it was easy and you
0:28.2	know some people unsure but that's pretty normal. One former student texted and guaranteed that it was a minus seven curve,
0:38.0	minus seven for a 170.
0:40.0	Guaranteed, huh?
0:41.0	Oh no, minus eight, minus 8, yeah. Okay. I, uh, that, that seems pretty far-fetched to me.
0:49.8	Yeah, that has happened before, but, wow, they must have felt really good about the test.
0:55.0	Yeah, that sounds like good news to me.
0:58.0	That's all I've heard.
1:00.0	I didn't hear any disasters.
1:03.2	No.
1:03.6	Wow, that's amazing.
1:04.6	It's the first time in like six months
1:07.6	that there haven't been any like hysteria or at least I didn't,
1:11.2	I was not made aware of any hysteria on the day before the test
1:15.5	I wonder how much of that has to do with ELSCAC learning lessons and how much it has to do with just the
1:22.0	huge drop in test takers right because I think January was a lot
1:26.4	smaller than November. I'd like to think that it's because of my New Year's
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