Episode 16: Strategies for LSAT Practice Success

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Nathan has a follow-up tutoring session with Ebony, a student from Dallas, Texas. When we were first introduced to Ebony, she was struggling with a learning disability and was unsure how it would impact her LSAT performance. In the time after her initial meeting with Nathan, Ebony put into practice the following strategies: Don't skip the early questions Take practice test from a current book LSAT exam (Ebony used Volume 5) Practice logic games from older tests Slow down at the end and focus on accuracy (even if you don't finish) Skip the science-themed reading comprehension sections if needed By only working on these strategies, Ebony's practice LSAT scores increased from 152 to 157! She went from answering 32 Logical Reasoning questions correctly to 40; and 16 correct Reading Comprehension questions to 21. In this episode, Nathan and Ebony also review Logical Reasoning questions and how to approach those for correct answers. They also discuss how to use the Fox LSAT online videos to enhance her LSAT practice sessions.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 16 of the Thinking El-Sat
0:19.4	podcast in San Francisco I'm Nathan Fox.
0:23.0	Ben Olson won't be joining this show.
0:26.0	Like last show, it's going to be a one-on-one tutoring session
0:30.0	with me and a student named Ebony in Dallas, Texas.
0:35.0	In this show, which was recorded in two different parts,
0:39.2	you'll hear us talking a big picture, L-Sat strategies and then all the way down to individual L-sat
0:46.7	logical reasoning questions. I hope you enjoy it. You can reach me at
0:51.0	Nathan at fox-lesat.com and I'd really love to hear what you think about the show.
0:56.0	Thank you.
0:57.0	All right, Ebony, so we're going to work a little bit today on logical reasoning questions.
1:06.5	You've done the June 2007 test, and you have a few questions from Section 2.
1:12.0	The cool thing about the June 2007 test is that you can Google it and it's available for free and we're allowed to talk about it on the podcast. So we can actually read the question and really like dive in deep on that. But first I wanted to get an
1:25.0	update on a couple of things. I've been excited today thinking about getting to
1:29.5	talk to you this afternoon because you've improved so much already so quickly. So you said you've gone from
1:36.2	152 to 157 already? Yes. So what do you think your success is due to so far?
1:44.0	Just timing strategies.
1:49.0	And when you say timing, what do you mean?
1:53.5	I think just looking at the logical reasoning sections differently instead of looking at it as a
2:00.7	section of 25, I look at it as a section of 20. So when I'm halfway through,
2:09.0	like with my time, I don't look at it like, I'm halfway through my time and I still have 15 questions left.
2:15.3	I say I still have 10 questions left and I don't even consider the last five questions.
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