Episode 64: To Retake Or Not To Retake- That Is the Question…

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

'Tis the time for our noble listeners to decide whether or not they are satisfied with their June LSAT scores. Zach wonders if it is worth risking a lower retake score after earning a 172 on the test. ‘Appreciative Student’ was surprised to receive an official score that was 5-6 points higher than their highest practice test score, and asks if it would be a good idea to try for an even higher result in September. (6:50)

We discuss a recent NY Times article, An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It. The article addresses the situation that some attendees of lower-tiered law schools find themselves in upon graduation: crushing debt, low bar passage rates, and a bleak employment outlook. We talk about these issues and what you can do to avoid a similar fate. (18:25)

Last but not least, we debut the inaugural Reading Comprehension explanation on the Thinking LSAT Podcast. We carefully read, comprehend, and discuss Passage #1 from the June 2007 test. Download the test yourself and play along as we go. (32:20)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 64 of the Thinking El-Sat
0:13.2	podcast in San Francisco, California. I am Nathan Fox. With me in
0:18.1	Washington, D.C. is Ben Olson. How was your 4th of July been?
0:21.6	It was pretty good.
0:25.0	We had a lot of rain here, so from what I understand they didn't do the fireworks,
0:30.0	so we ended up just going home.
0:32.0	But we did go to our little parade in town which was actually I kind of liked it because we got there right when it finished so didn't have to stand forever watching people play and then the
0:46.6	firefighters had like some competition where they put a keg up on this wire and they had to shoot it with their fire hoses and try to
0:57.4	get it to go from one side to the other so you have like two teams of fire
1:01.1	firefighters shooting their hoses at this keg right and if they
1:07.2	get it to the other side the opposing side then they win or whatever but I think the idea is that in the summer when it's
1:15.5	really really hot everybody gets wet who's watching this event but since it was
1:20.8	already starting to rain
1:23.0	yeah it was just more water and lots of water but it was
1:27.8	pretty fun to see them shoot those hoses and
1:30.9	accidentally spray everybody on the side.
1:32.7	So, cool.
1:35.2	I was at my buddy's house in Pacifica.
1:38.4	They have a 4th of July party.
1:41.0	And so you're gonna, I'm a little bit hung over today then you might have to
1:44.4	carry more of the weight than you're accustomed to carrying on the show it was a crazy
1:51.5	it was a crazy party.
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