Episode 46: What To Do If You Got Disappointing October LSAT Results

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The October LSAT scores are out. Should you retake the LSAT? And what's the first thing you should do when you get your actual results back? Paul asks if it's possible to go from a LSAT score of 146 to 170. Vincent shares his experience after taking our advice to stop reading the Logical Reasoning question stem first. Did his practice scores improve? Dylan wants help answering abstract questions (e.g. flaw, method of reasoning), and shares his strategy for taking simulated practice tests at the actual LSAT start-time of 8:30 a.m. A listener asks what suggestions we have for continuing to study when waiting for test results. She also asks about a strategy for disclosing speeding tickets on the law school application, and whether those traffic violations will hurt her chances of admission. Thinking LSAT is now on Twitter! Follow us at @thinkinglsat and tweet us a question! Take a listen and let us know what you think.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 46 of the Thinking ElsapAP podcast. This is Ben Olson in Washington, D.C. and with me is Nathan Fox.
0:18.0	Nathan, I guess you're still in San Francisco?
0:21.0	Yeah, I'm in San Francisco and I'm gonna apologize right off the top
0:24.0	there's some road construction going on outside my apartment here in West
0:28.3	portal the road construction that will never end for like months and months so if you hear jackhammering
0:36.2	That's my bad. Hopefully yeah our editor is it is your bad. It is my bad our man Sean hopefully will be able to take a lot of that out, so maybe it won't impact the listeners too much.
0:46.7	Cool. So, wait, when are you moving to LA or part-time at least? Yeah, well, I've already been there. I'm already back and forth. So I was there last week. I'll be there again this week.
0:57.0	I'll be there a lot in November, almost all of December.
1:00.0	Yeah, I'm back and forth.
1:03.0	Okay.
1:04.0	Yeah, cool.
1:05.0	Well, I look forward to talking to you while you're in LA.
1:08.0	I know, it's going to be cool.
1:09.0	I know, I'm looking forward to that too.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	So, big news, of course the scores came out last night. Got a
1:18.7	lot of emails and a lot of good ones a lot of bad ones as usual I'm assuming same for you it like never changes it's always the same I mean the I feel bad because for the student it's such you know it's it's like a unique special experience and
1:37.1	then but for me it's like it never ever changes it's just some people did
1:41.4	better than they thought some people did worse than they thought some people thought the test was really hard
1:48.0	I don't know what to say other than just kind of shit happens
1:56.6	Yeah You feel you have that same experience? Yeah no I do have the same experience and I also think it's interesting how people react to different
2:00.1	scores right you get some people who get a 171 and they're saying, oh, I'm going to retake it.
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