Ep. 256: The LSAT Paradox

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Speed. Accuracy. Success. Happiness. How do you strike a balance? If you speed through the LSAT, your accuracy may suffer. If you slow down to improve accuracy but never get better at the test, your score will stagnate. If you rush headfirst into law school, you may end up with a mountain of debt in a career that doesn’t meet expectations. In this episode, Nathan and Ben discuss how to use the time to set yourself up for success on the LSAT and beyond. They answer listener questions about aiming for accuracy, how slow is too slow when approaching LR arguments, and whether or not to take a gap year. They also hear from a budding app developer who made an app for checking law-school-app status, and they critique a listener’s personal statement. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 256 of the Thinking Elsat in Lewis, Delaware. This is Ben Olson. With me in Tahoe, Nevada?
0:18.0	State Line, Nevada. State Line, Nevada.
0:21.0	Lake Tahoe. that's right.
0:23.0	Is Nathan Fox.
0:25.0	How you doing?
0:26.0	Good, man.
0:27.0	This is like the vacation version of the show.
0:29.0	Well, except for I live here now, but you are at the beach.
0:32.0	That's right, yeah. It's been brutally hot the last couple of days like
0:38.2	95 but feels like at least according to my phone 108 I don't know how they calculate that.
0:45.4	So aside from everyone getting a little bit burned including myself, we've decided to avoid the beach from 11 to 3.
0:55.0	We can go in the morning.
0:57.0	That sounds reasonable.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	And then my second oldest, got a he got a jellyfish wrapped around his legs
1:06.0	unfortunately last night it's it looked pretty painful I mean you, it's hard to tell sometimes with kids like...
1:14.0	Did he pee on it?
1:16.0	Uh, yeah, we used that, uh, we used that, uh, we used that, that as well as aloe and some other hot water.
1:22.8	That's a hot water.
1:24.8	I don't think the peeing can actually do anything, can it?
1:27.8	Well, they did say that, what was it, ammonium?
1:32.2	Is that, am I making some of? Yeah, is that? Yeah, apparently
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