Episode 34: How to Handle Panic Before the June LSAT

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, which commemorates our one year anniversary of the Thinking LSAT Podcast, we share an update on the Thinking LSAT Logic Games Playbook. We also address the following issues from LSAT students across the country: Kayli (who is taking the June LSAT) had questions about applying to law school as a "splitter" (i.e. a person with a high LSAT score and low GPA, or vice versa). She asked, "If you're below the 25th percentile for the GPA or LSAT, do you have to be in the 75th percentile for the other component?" Do you have any recommendations for practicing the ungraded writing sample section of the LSAT? Be sure to listen for Ben's rubric to help you craft your essay. Joe has been taking multiple practice tests (and tracking his performance) as he gears up for the June LSAT. He asks for tips to work through the last-minute panic and test anxiety he's starting to feel before the June test. Take a listen and let us know what you think. And don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter. Everyone who signs up will receive a sample chapter of the Thinking LSAT Logic Games Playbook! Sign up and we’ll be in touch!

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0:16.2	Hello and welcome to episode 34 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast this is Ben Olson in Washington DC and with me today as always Nathan Fox how you doing Nathan oh I'm okay
0:25.5	San Francisco is beautiful starting to get foggy because it's summertime now and
0:30.3	I am sick so I'll just apologize to the listeners right off the bat you're going to hear me
0:34.8	hacking and coughing our man Sean will probably edit as much of that out as possible
0:39.7	but yeah it's it's been a little bit of a rough one I'm not going to die
0:46.3	to worry oh and the test is right around the corner so you must be busy and not
0:51.7	feeling well that's not fun.
0:52.8	Yeah I've been super busy and like hacking and coughing in my classes and stuff and
0:57.0	but no it's all right I'm I'm making it through.
1:00.0	Yeah this is not a time to take a break, I guess.
1:02.8	No, no, no, no, busy season.
1:05.2	Yeah.
1:07.2	Um, cool. Well, in today's episode, we have a lot of good things we're going to talk about.
1:13.0	So some people have emailed us about, quote, splitters.
1:18.0	That's where you have a high L-Sat and low-GPA or high-G high-G-P-A and low-L-Sat. We'll talk about whether that's a thing or whatnot and what
1:27.3	you should think about that if anything. We also have a question about the writing sample, which is the ungraded section at the end, the sixth section, what to do there and so on.
1:41.0	Some questions about last minute panic attacks which everyone suffers from so we'll talk about that
1:48.0	Give you some ideas how to avoid it and
1:51.1	Lastly an update on our playbook.
1:54.0	Anything else you want to add to that, Nathan?
1:57.0	Well, I did want to say it's not quite there yet, but happy anniversary dude. Oh is it what anniversary is it? It's our anniversary. We're coming
2:10.7	up on one year of the Thinking Elseat Podcast.
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