Ep. 244: Desperate Schools, Desperate Measures

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Just as you were recovering from the whiplash that was the announcement of the May LSAT-Flex, LSAC decided to drop another surprise. June LSAT is going the way of the Flex, too! Ben and Nathan talk about the change and give you all the details you need to know if you were registered for the June test. The guys also discuss an advanced strategy for LG, they double down on the importance of predicting answer choices in LR, and they offer up their thinking about parallel reasoning questions. Plus, we get a look at how law schools are getting desperate during a slow admissions cycle. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 244 of the Thinking El-Sap podcast in Vienna, Virginia. This is Ben Olson. With me is
0:16.4	Nathan Fox in Los Angeles. How you doing man? Doing well. Yeah real busy. I mean
0:22.3	crazy times. It feels like everybody's either totally busy or doing absolutely nothing.
0:28.0	But yeah. No, I've been I've been super busy with Demon Live so it's fun times.
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:36.0	You said the ask button requests were through the roof.
0:40.0	People are studying, you know, and I'm like non-stop yelling at people about I don't believe that they're actually studying if they're not getting confused enough to hit the ask button.
0:49.0	So they're you know, they're listening to that advice and they're working hard.
0:55.0	Cool.
0:56.0	Today on the show we're going to talk about how the June L-Sat is now L-Sat Flex, which is their
1:00.6	three section online test.
1:02.8	We have a Pearl versus Tirds on floaters in the games.
1:08.9	We have a question about always predicting the answer in logical reasoning?
1:14.0	Always sounds a little strong, but anyways, someone needs some help with parallel reasoning.
1:20.0	Ooh, we have some stuff about seat deposits.
1:23.2	Do seat deposits matter?
1:24.6	Do they even exist anymore?
1:26.0	Yeah.
1:28.0	Maybe not.
1:29.8	Desperate schools, Desperate Measures.
1:32.6	That's our last topic.
1:35.0	Well, I think we're gonna have to go through these first topics quickly.
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