Episode 62: Dear Thinking LSAT…

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Did you take the June LSAT? Are you freaking out about your performance?? If you answered yes, we encourage you to slow down, take a deep breath, and refrain from any drastic decisions about canceling your score. (4:05)

“Overwhelmed Dad” in South Texas emails a series of questions regarding his potential career shift from high school history teacher to lawyer. Worried about his ability to balance work, law school, and a newborn baby, Overwhelmed wants to know what advice we can share to help him be successful in his endeavor. (5:45)

“Anxious and Anonymous” writes in to admit he disregarded our [totally awesome] advice and read LSAT forums even after receiving a great offer letter from his top choice law school. Now questioning whether he set his sights high enough, Anxious is considering turning down this offer and starting the application process over next year. (36:20)

We work through two Logical Reasoning questions from the June 2007 Official LSAT. Question #23 is a Sufficient Assumption problem that uses big, heady abstractions to confuse test-takers and Question #24 tests how well you understood the question and predicted an answer. To play along at home, pause at 46:20 for #23 and at 1:06 for Question #24.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 62 of the Thinking El-Sap podcast in San Francisco. I'm Nathan Fox with me in
0:14.9	Washington DC. There's Ben Olson. Ben, how you doing? Doing good. What's the
0:19.9	latest? Yeah it's gotten really hot here and we had class the other night and we didn't have a C.
0:26.5	Oh, it was bad.
0:28.6	You don't have a C in your building or they?
0:30.7	No, we do, but they had shut it off, I think, for the holiday room.
0:34.0	Oh, Jesus, wow.
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:37.0	Whoops.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	I went online and actually like,
0:42.0	tried to figure out whether you could put ice in a room and whether it would actually make the room cooler.
0:47.0	And there was one guy who said that he sounded like an engineer and he had done the math and two liters of frozen water or ice would cool a medium-sized room. it could have the potential based on the thermodynamics
1:06.7	calculations or whatever of cooling the room up to 10 to 15 degrees.
1:12.4	Whoa whoa he said up to 10 to 15 degrees.
1:12.6	Whoa.
1:14.0	Whoa. He said, well, of course, there's, you know, loss, inefficiency,
1:18.2	the room's not sealed, blah, blah, blah.
1:20.5	I was like, well, that sounds legit enough.
1:22.0	So I, even if it's like three degrees will be a lot happier and it did I do have a clock
1:29.3	Thermometer and
1:32.1	We put that in the room and it went from 80 to 78 and then over time it went back up to 80.
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