Episode 23: An Interview with Matt Sherman of Manhattan LSAT

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Matt Sherman with Manhattan LSAT in San Diego joins Nathan and Ben to answer listener questions about the LSAT. Some of the topics they address are: Should you spend time making inferences on pure sequencing games; and which types of inferences should you make before going on to the questions? What should you do if you don't see the answer you predicted? Should you panic or have an open mind when reviewing the answer choices? What should you do about main point questions and matching flaw questions (i.e. whether to read all five answer choices)? How to answer the first question in the Games section, and how many times students should review the rules to assure they're not missing anything. Matt also addresses a question from Keaton, a Thinking LSAT listener, who asks whether his work experience and GPA have an impact on law school admission decisions. Nathan, Ben and Matt also discuss what students should do in the last few weeks before the December LSAT; specifically how to improve your score on the Games section. Take a listen and let us know what you think.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 23 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. This is Ben Olson in Washington, D.C.
0:24.0	and with me today I have Nathan Fox.
0:26.0	Nathan, how you doing?
0:28.0	I'm doing great. It's another beautiful day in San Francisco.
0:30.0	I played golf yesterday.
0:32.0	It's lovely. It's nice to be in
0:34.2	Northern California that does sound nice it's pouring here and very cold so
0:39.0	sorry that's all right. I'm inside.
0:44.0	But today, we got some great stuff here.
0:47.0	We're going to bring on Matt Sherman from Manhattan, El-Sat.
0:51.0	He's in San Diego. And so I imagine he probably has good weather too, but we're going to cover a lot of questions.
0:58.6	Let's see here, what was some of the things we talked about?
1:02.0	We talked about?
1:04.0	We talked about whether or not you should take a lot of time making inferences on pure sequencing
1:08.5	games or which types of inferences you should make before you go on to the questions.
1:14.4	We talked about what to do if you don't see the answer that you predicted,
1:19.4	whether you should freak out or whether you should have more of an open mind when you're reading the
1:24.8	answer choices. We had a little bit of a debate there I think. We had sort of
1:28.4	different strategies there which listeners will probably be interested in.
1:31.6	Yeah. And then specifically what to do about
1:36.4	main point questions in terms of moving on right? Well, whether to read all five
1:41.9	answer choices we got a little bit of a debate about that.
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