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Thinking LSAT

Episode 67: Or Am I…

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Josh planned to retake the LSAT but then received a recommendation from his pre-law advisor not to do so; now Josh is confused about what he should do. We give him our own recommendation and decide that a retake is almost always a good idea. (10:07)

Tamra knows she is retaking the LSAT in September but is worried her score will be received too late to be considered at her top choice school by their early decision deadline. We compare the pros and cons of Tamra sending an application before her September scores are ready, then discuss how early the law school application truly needs to be sent in at all. (15:00)

FarmBoy has a 142 on his first practice test, ADD, and, we can only hope, an impressive collection of overalls. He emails to ask whether reading the question stem before the passage is always a bad idea or if, as he suspects, he might be an exception to this rule. (20:00)

Brett, a US Merchant Marine who alternates a month at home with a month at sea, is having an understandably hard time scheduling his LSAT. His current options are to take the test a month from now or a year from now, and we make our best recommendation by looking at his current practice scores. (30:28)

We continue Section 3 from the June 2007 LSAT, completely working through Logical Reasoning Questions #3 and #4. Download the free test here and try the questions, then listen in for our explanation. (42:30)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 67 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast.

0:14.5

This is Ben Olson in Washington, D.C.

0:17.7

And with me is Nathan Fox in...

0:20.7

I'm in Los Angeles.

0:21.6

I'm about to head north for a couple weeks. Cool. Anything new since we last talked?

0:28.4

Just busy season. People are grinding away for the September L-SAT.

0:33.3

So I've had lots of tutoring students,

0:36.2

people signing up for the online class,

0:38.5

in-person classes are filling up.

0:41.8

Yeah, sounds like you're probably pretty busy too, huh?

0:45.0

Both classes are in full swing as well as the online version.

0:50.0

And yeah, it's pretty, lots of emails trying to get back to everybody I know last

0:56.6

time we talked about me turning off my email on my phone I did not do that the

1:01.7

whole week it was hard to resist, but overall I think it was a good step.

1:08.0

I'm just sort of trying to make email more of like an isolated task as opposed to an omnipresent reality.

1:18.0

Yeah, so you said you did not do that.

1:20.4

You mean you didn't turn it back on?

1:22.0

You've got you've got email on your phone off is that right? Well I had it off and I

1:27.1

didn't stick with that the whole week. I see. So there were definitely times

1:31.8

where I turned it back on and felt the need to get back to people

1:37.0

that had been probably waiting too long and there were probably even some people right now that have been waiting too long but

1:43.7

it overall though I think it's

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