Episode 55: Ann Levine Talks Meditation and Studying for the LSAT

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We interview Ann Levine, law school admissions expert, author and yoga teacher. Ann counsels us on the importance of meditation in creating a clear mind before studying. She also discusses test day anxiety and answers questions about the admissions cycle. Read more about Ann and sign up for her newsletter here. (2:00)

Listener John is joining an LSAT study group and asks for tips on how to make the sessions as productive as possible. We debate whether study groups are the best use of prep time and how to keep focused while studying with other students. (34:30)

An email from economics major Cameron prompts a discussion about the subject content of Reading Comprehension passages. Do you know what a lichen is?! We don’t either, but we tell you how to correctly answer questions about them anyway. (43:10)

Ben shares stories from listeners who recently received LSAT accommodations on test day, and we discuss how those accommodations were handled by test proctors. (54:50)

Looking for more LSAT prep help? We spend the last few minutes of the show talking about the variety of resources we have for students who want more guidance. As an added bonus, if you listen closely while Ben is speaking, you will hear the melodious birdsong of Costa Rica! (1:01:00)

Nathan is teaching a weekend LSAT Bootcamp in Los Angeles on April 23 and 24. It promises to be a concentrated dose of LSAT awesomeness! Get all the details here.

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0:00.0	The So welcome to episode 55 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Los Angeles. I am Nathan Fox and where did you say you are
0:26.7	Ben somewhere outside of San Jose? Sanicidro I, this is how it said.
0:33.6	Yeah, it's just, it's like 45 minutes away
0:35.5	from San Jose, Costa Rica.
0:37.8	Awesome, how's that going so far?
0:40.0	It's good.
0:40.5	We had some storms when we first got here, but now it's just sunny all the time, which I think is what it's normally like here, at least in the dry season.
0:49.0	So the weather is impossible to argue with. I heard it was really cold back where I'm usually
0:55.4	at in DC, so I'm glad we missed that.
0:58.8	Cool. And we also are lucky to have with us in Santa Barbara and Levine.
1:03.8	Anne, how's it going?
1:05.4	Great guys, thanks for having me.
1:07.5	I'm going to run through just quick kind of agenda items.
1:11.9	We're going to talk today about meditation and how it can help you on not just
1:15.8	the L-SAT, but law school admissions and in life. We're going to talk about a story in the Wall Street Journal that Arizona is now accepting the GRE instead of the
1:26.0	ELSAT or I guess they're accepting both but it's a new trend some law schools are now
1:30.4	accepting the GRE we need to talk about whether that's the end of a career
1:34.6	for me and Ben. We have a bunch of listener questions. Please remember that you can
1:41.2	always email us, help at thinking Elsat.com. You can also
1:45.5	tweet me. I'm at in Fox and Ben is at strategy prep and you might as well give
1:51.2	out your contact information at the top.
1:53.0	At Anne Levine, I'm on Twitter right now.
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