Episode 26: What Should I Do If My LSAT Practice Scores are Dropping?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast, we answer some great questions from listeners, including: The LSAT is coming up soon and I've had a last-minute drop in my practice scores. What should I do? I have a 153 on my official LSAT record. I've been scoring in the low 160s on my practice tests, and want to score at least a 165 on the next LSAT (which I've hit before) for a scholarship offer. Should I take the next two LSAT tests offered? Or focus on the further one to better my score? Given the drop of applicants to law school (and schools needing to fill seats), should I apply for fall 2015 or fall of 2016 admission? Why is the February LSAT not disclosed and what does that mean? When should I sign up for the June LSAT? Take a listen and let us know what you think. And don't forget to sign up for our email newsletter to learn more about the launch of our upcoming Logic Games book! We'll be looking for people to read the book and write a few reviews. Interested in helping us out? Sign up and we'll be in touch!

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 26 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. this is Ben Olson in Washington DC and with me today is
0:26.5	Nathan Fox and Nathan are you in San Francisco today you're not right no I'm at my folks house. I'm on there in Hawaii and I'm on the
0:37.8	Haley duty. Haley's my niece and so I'm gonna go pick her up from school today and hang out with her tonight, drop her off at school tomorrow.
0:45.0	Yeah, it's a nice little break. I'm here in the...
0:48.0	The only unfortunate part is that I'm out of the perfect San Francisco weather and I'm into the kind of
0:54.8	foggy Central Valley weather. So San Francisco is usually foggy. No, not in January. Not in January, okay. No, no. The January, February is like sometimes the nicest days come in January and February. Like for the month of January we had about 25 perfect days and a few not so perfect days. But I mean it's been shirt sleeves like every day. I've been playing golf and shorts yeah it's been it's been nuts I mean I'm like
1:27.2	literally going to the beach walking on the beach putting my feet in the water it's
1:31.7	like it's been it's been nuts but that happens a lot in January in San Francisco people don't don't realize that when they think San Francisco is cold
1:38.7	It's because they've gone there in August and expected it to be hot with shorts and a t-shirt and then they get screwed with the fog and whatnot.
1:46.5	Yeah that's amazing. Yeah winter's really nice in San Francisco.
1:49.6	Cool but your parents are in Hawaii. My parents are in Hawaii, yeah, so they're somewhere even nicer.
1:55.2	Now I'm at their house, which is kind of stuck in the fog.
1:59.2	Cool.
2:00.2	But, yeah.
2:01.5	Well, so it sounds like things are good and you're gonna
2:04.6	So you're just there for a few days and you gotta go back for else that stuff or what? Oh yeah, I mean I taught last night and I teach tomorrow night so I'm just here for about a 36 hour quick
2:16.4	visit with my niece and my sister.
2:18.8	Cool. All right well we have a lot of good questions today. Should we just jump into them?
2:26.3	Would that be best? I think so. Yeah, let's do it. So the first question we have here is, these are from students that are preparing presumably for the February test, which is just a few days from now, and someone says, okay, wait, I've had a sudden last minute drop in scores. What should I do? Do you have any
2:47.0	thoughts on this? Yeah, of course by the time people hear this it it'll already, the February,
2:53.0	Elsat will have come and gone.
2:55.2	But this advice is going to apply to you
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