Episode 71: Who Killed the Electric LSAT?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Thinking LSAT gets political as we discuss the Trump-Clinton debate, and Nathan shares his surprising opinion on the outcome. Don’t worry if you’re not offended yet, we’ll discuss religion at the end of the show. (0:30)

A commercial break here for Nathan to plug his upcoming LSAT Boot Camps in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Get more information and sign up for a magical weekend with Nathan Fox. (8:28)

Tragically funny experiences from the September LSAT include distracting proctors and proctors who forget how to tell time, and a violation for going one second over in the Writing Sample section. We share some tips on avoiding these violations by wrapping up the sample quickly and clearly. (9:30)

Ben shares big news from the 2004 LSAC Report— a tablet-based LSAT will be released for testing in 2015!!! Oh wait, it wasn’t. We discuss the pros and cons (there aren’t any cons, actually) of such a test, and speculate on why it never happened. (23:40)

An email from Greg asks whether his advisor calling the September test “unusual” is accurate and what that might mean for the December LSAT he plans to take. (49:55)

Anonymous is concerned about inconsistency in his practice test scores. Ben says this is a super common experience and Nathan says this student is just not good enough at the LSAT yet. Either way, we agree speeding up is not the answer. (49:55)

We work on a Sufficient Assumption question from the June 2007 LSAT. To play at home just download the free test, work through Section 3, Question #5, and listen in as we discuss the problem in detail. (1:07:00)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 71 of the Thinking El-SAP podcast. This is Ben Olsen in Washington, D.C.
0:17.0	the lovely home of our political capital and...
0:21.0	Jesus.
0:22.0	Theatrix.
0:25.0	So with me as always Nathan Fox, how's it going?
0:28.0	Good man, I'm in Los Angeles.
0:30.0	I've been traveling a ton.
0:31.0	I was up in Petaluma.
0:32.0	I was in Granite Bay, I was in Pacific Grove, Monterrey, I just got back last night to Los Angeles.
0:41.6	Mostly I've avoided watching. I did watch the first
0:45.7	presidential debate which was comedy I thought. Yeah I didn't end up seeing it.
0:54.1	There was a class going on and around nine or something.
0:58.4	About five students left, I think, to go see it.
1:00.9	They told me they just had to go see it so. I thought Trump won. Can I tell you why?
1:05.6	Tell me why, yeah. I mean the pundits totally disagreed and I don't know anything about
1:09.3	politics so you know I'm sure they're right and Hillary seems to get a bounce from it and everything but
1:15.5	Yeah well I just figured if you are an undecided voter at this point you're probably a dumb ass and
1:27.1	Trump's message plays very well to dumbasses because he just says his conclusions without any evidence at all.
1:31.2	Right?
1:33.0	Hillary tries to make rational arguments and when you try to make a rational argument like with
1:38.1	an evidence and with evidence and a conclusion then people can object.
1:43.5	But Trump just says, I'm going to fix everything, period.
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