Episode 30: Graeme Blake Talks About Retaking the LSAT and the Future of the Exam

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

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4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

LSAT teacher and author Graeme Blake joins us to answer a few questions from the Reddit LSAT forum and reflects on the current state of the LSAT and law school admissions. Here are the topics Graeme addresses: What is the success rate when people retake the LSAT? (read the question on Reddit) What are the basics of an LSAT prep plan? There are so many resources out there; what are the best materials to use? (read the question on Reddit) What is the difference between sufficient and necessary? How is it tested, and how do you make logic and precision habitual? (read the question on Reddit) Graeme's thoughts on some law schools not requiring the LSAT for admission (based on "Killing the LSAT is a Bad Deal for Students" by Elie Mystal in Above the Law) You can read more questions from Reddit on the LSAT forum and law school admission forum. 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 30 of the Thinking Elsap podcast this is Ben
0:22.1	Olson in Washington, D.C. and with me today I have Nathan Fox and
0:27.0	Graham Blake. Graham, how you doing? Doing good Ben. Nathan?
0:31.5	Awesome, yeah. Oh good Well, we're excited to have you back, Graham.
0:36.3	It's been a few months now, I think.
0:39.3	Yeah, time applies.
0:40.6	Yeah, it does. And I don't know, Nathan, do you have any updates before we get into these topics?
0:48.0	Oh, I don't know. I played golf all weekend. That was just you know life in California I've got a new
0:56.6	class started I know you do too. Graham what have you been up to? I'm making some
1:02.0	videos now so I've been fiddling with drawing software
1:05.0	Trying to find one that looks nice
1:07.3	Cool well so I guess you're doing that for the games you're making videos for the games and other things like well?
1:13.0	Yeah, for other sections too.
1:15.0	I don't know, it's all pretty new.
1:17.0	Cool.
1:18.0	Well, that's exciting.
1:20.0	All right, so today we have a lot of good questions,
1:22.0	and I guess you've gotten a lot of these questions from Reddit, right?
1:26.0	Graham?
1:27.0	Yeah.
1:28.0	Cool. So we'll be going over the success of retaking the test. I guess someone did a survey on
1:35.4	that and found some interesting results. A lot of people are also confused
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