Episode 53: How Do You Pace Yourself During the Logical Reasoning Section?
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Nathan finally saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and we find the flaws in the film like it’s Question #16 from Section 2 of the June 2007 LSAT. (Spoiler Alert from 0:55-9:00)
Bonifacio, a former student of Nathan’s, asks for advice on slowing down while working through the Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT. We talk about pacing during this section of the test, and whether or not it is a major factor in test success. (9:06)
Ben provides a handy 3-part checklist to go through when attempting any Logical Reasoning question. (16:40)
We answer Question #16 from Section 2 of the June 2007 LSAT. To play along at home, pause the podcast at 24:53 to read and attempt the question, then press play to hear our discussion and answer. (24:14)
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| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 53 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast in San Francisco. I am Nathan Fox |
| 0:20.0 | and in Washington DC is Ben Olson. How you doing Ben? |
| 0:23.7 | Good, thanks. |
| 0:25.6 | I finally saw Star Wars so we can chat about that. |
| 0:28.4 | But let me give a first little preview of what we're going to talk about today. We have a question from a listener, |
| 0:36.8 | actually a former student of mine, about slowing down on the logical reasoning. So we're |
| 0:41.2 | going to talk about ways that you might be able to |
| 0:43.2 | slow down. We talk about slowing town all the time, but maybe we can give you some |
| 0:47.4 | specific ways that you can slow down. We are then going to do a question or two of logical reasoning from the June 2007 test. |
| 0:55.8 | Okay, so let's do Star Wars because we've been wanting to talk about it for a while. |
| 1:01.1 | This probably is going to contain some spoilers. So if you don't |
| 1:06.5 | want to hear Star Wars spoilers, you might want to fast forward a little bit. Well, Ben, you saw it a while back yeah you took the boys yeah what |
| 1:17.8 | what did you guys think of it so big picture it was a good movie I'm glad I saw it but I definitely had some issues with it. |
| 1:25.8 | Okay. You're kind of like me I think where there's nothing is ever going to be perfect or at least like I critique |
| 1:36.7 | that even the things that I really love I just have to critique I have to point out |
| 1:42.2 | the problems. |
| 1:43.4 | So what were your issues? |
| 1:45.5 | I can't wait. |
| 1:46.1 | So one of the issues I had, which sort of, |
| 1:49.8 | I was just thinking as I was sitting there watching it was when they said okay here's the problem we have this sorry for the |
| 1:59.4 | spoilers you definitely want to fast forward this but we have this this planet this is now a |
| 2:04.4 | a gun which is just like the death star and I'm thinking we have the exact same |
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