Episode 38: Should You Select a Law School Based on Bar Exam Passage Rates or Tuition Costs?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, we answer the following LSAT questions and whether to select a law school based on bar exam passage rates: Mike asks how to address “uncommon word usages" on the LSAT. For example, the word "obtain" appears frequently. What other words should LSAT test-takers look for? Matt is taking the October LSAT. He slowed down his approach to answering Logical Reasoning questions, which has significantly improved his accuracy. When should he increase his speed to answer more questions while still maintaining accuracy? Nathan's student was admitted to Golden Gate University School of Law (46% bar passage rate) and University of La Verne College of Law (67% bar passage rate). Should he select a law school based on bar exam passage rates or the cost of tuition? Bram just started studying for the LSAT. He asks about a strategy for answering different sections, recommendations for a LSAT class in Atlanta, and whether he should break Logic Games questions into "sub-games" or "worlds." 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 this is Ben Olson in Washington DC and this is episode 38. With me today is Nathan Fox in San Francisco.
0:18.6	How's it going, Nathan?
0:19.6	I'm great, man. He ran into some traffic on the way into work huh? Yeah so I usually get in my
0:24.8	car and then plug in my work address and Google Maps tells me that everything's okay but today
0:31.0	it did not and it had me going on some crazy loop so I
0:34.6	followed the loop and got into DC. Do you listen to any podcasts on the way in?
0:39.5	I don't maybe this is hypocritical but I don't usually listen to podcasts as of late
0:46.1	But I am listening to the book about Elon Musk
0:51.5	Oh cool, it's very interesting. Yeah, he's an interesting guy. But the book I just read before that was The Martian. Have you heard of that? I mentioned this to my class last night and I thought everybody
1:04.5	would be like, oh yeah, yeah. But no, no one's heard of it apparently. Except those who have, there's
1:10.8	36,000 reviews on audible for this book and it ranks about
1:18.9	4.7 among those reviews.
1:22.8	Wow.
1:23.5	In any case, if you've, have you gone to the movies lately?
1:26.2	Yeah, I have.
1:27.4	So did you see the trailer with Matt Damon
1:29.9	for the movie in which he gets stuck on Mars?
1:33.2	I have not.
1:34.4	Okay, so there, anyways, you can just search for the Martian
1:38.3	and you'll see a trailer with Matt Damon.
1:40.4	And it's about an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars because they thought he
1:45.1	died and they had to take off quickly because of an emergency and he gets stuck
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