Episode 47: LSAT Accommodations, LSAT Test-Day Score Drops and Whether to Drill Specific Question Types

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

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🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the current state of LSAT accommodations since the topic was discussed in episode 43. We tackle Logical Reasoning question 10 (Section 2) from the June 2007 LSAT. Camilla asks what ranges we recommend for reach, target and safety when using the LSAC calculator and the percentage it gives. Two listeners ask if they should spend time reviewing questions/answers they got correct, or just those that were incorrect. Chris is heading into the final stretch before the December LSAT. He asks if we've seen patterns among students who have experienced test-day score drops compared to their practice test scores. Similarly, Courtney asks if we have suggestions for how to improve her test-day score to match her practice scores. Chris asks if he should drill specific question types, or continue taking mixed sections to help strengthen the question gaps and understanding. In addition, he asks for suggestions to go from the low 160s to high 160s. Ben suggests using the Strategy Prep question tracker to help with this. Finally, Courtney is seeking additional test materials to complete her LSAT preparations. If you're interested in reviewing a draft of Nathan's Logic Games Playbook, send him an email and he'll be in touch! 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 and welcome to episode 47 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in San Francisco. I'm Nathan Fox with me in Washington DC is Ben Olson how you doing Ben
0:17.7	Good I'm waiting for you to be in LA but I realize that your classes on Tuesday night right?
0:24.6	Yeah I taught last night I teach tonight. I was in LA over the long weekend. I'll be in
0:29.8	LA for most of December so we'll get to say that we get to say that sometime soon.
0:35.0	You made me interested now I can't stop thinking about it.
0:38.0	Yeah yeah it's great I'm looking forward to spending December there you know
0:41.6	it's just we just finally got to fall here in San Francisco now that it's
0:46.2	November. Summer is over and it got kind of cold again. I got the heater on in my apartment.
0:52.1	And so yeah, I'm looking forward to getting down to some of the sunshine in the month of December.
1:00.0	Yeah. Should be good. Today on episode 47, we have a whole bunch of stuff to talk about.
1:08.0	Ben, you have an update on some accommodation stuff from some students that are in your current classes.
1:14.1	I'm interested to hear about that.
1:17.1	We're going to do one question from the June 2007 L-SAT.
1:21.2	We're going to talk about some logical reasoning.
1:23.0	Then we have a whole bunch of issues from listeners.
1:27.0	I don't think I'm even going to go into all of these details
1:30.0	at the top of the show, but we got we got like five different emails from
1:34.2	listeners that we're gonna go over so we'll try to knock those out. But let's dive
1:40.2	right in I think what's up with the accommodation stuff? Yeah so in
1:45.9	episode 43 we talked to Mika about her accommodations request and the challenges that she faced to get accommodations and
1:56.4	she ended up getting a time and a half and the big reason we were talking with
2:02.3	her was because I think it was a ninth circuit court decision is that right?
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