Episode 37: Should You Retake the LSAT?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, we answer the following questions about retaking the LSAT: Dylan has a 3.5 GPA and scored a 163 on the LSAT, yet he got as high as 167 on practice tests. Should he apply to law school early through rolling admission, or retake the LSAT in hopes of a higher score? Lauren scored a 170 on the June LSAT. She is considering retaking the test in October because she scored as high as 174 on practice tests, but doesn't want to burn herself out. Should she retake the LSAT? Andre scored a 155 on his first attempt at the LSAT. After taking a prep course and doing numerous practice rounds, his practice scores ranged from 161-169. Yet when Andre retook the LSAT, he only got a 157. Why did his score decrease and what should he do before retaking the LSAT? Beth is taking the October LSAT. She's working full time and can't afford a prep class. After using the Princeton Review and Kaplan LSAT test prep books, Beth was so stressed about timing that she neglected to work on study techniques. As a result, her score went down. What LSAT study strategy do we recommend for Beth? 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 updates and sample chapters of the upcoming Logic Games Playbook! Sign up and we’ll be in touch!

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to episode 37 of the Thinking El-Sap podcast in San Francisco.
0:10.0	I am Nathan Fox and in DC, or are you in DC or are you in Virginia
0:15.4	Ben Olson? Yeah no I'm in DC today. You're in the office. Yeah.
0:20.1	Cool how's everything in DC? How's business?
0:23.0	How's life?
0:24.8	Oh, it's good.
0:25.6	It's kind of an unusually cool summer, I think, so far.
0:29.7	So it's been nice to not be totally drained by that. Business is good. The class, my first
0:39.5	class for the October Elsat starts this Saturday.
0:43.5	And it's pretty much full, so that's exciting.
0:48.6	And yeah, excited to get back into it. Enjoying the break, huh? Ready to get back into it.
0:52.6	Enjoying the break, huh?
0:53.8	Ready to get back into it?
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah, definitely.
0:57.4	Nice.
0:58.0	Yeah, my class is going.
1:00.1	I started last week.
1:03.0	Okay.
1:04.0	Yeah, I'm full too.
1:05.0	I've moved into a slightly smaller classroom.
1:07.0	I've actually only got room for 24 now in my class.
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