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🗓️ 12 December 2016
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Nathan shares an email he received from David Faigman, Acting Chancellor and Dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law. The email, sent to students and alumni of the program, discussed Hasting graduates’ “horrific result” on the July 2016 Bar exam. We talk about who and what is to blame for the low passage rate and what might be done to improve it. (2:36)
Arye asks the guys to explain why it’s better to read the question stimulus before reading the question stem. We discuss this and more from Arye, including score plateaus and preparing for the February LSAT. (12:35)
One of Nathan’s students recently took the LSAT in Mexico City and shares his impressions of the experience. He was very pleased with the helpful test proctors, less so with the restrooms, and completely mystified by the stickiness of his desk. (30:30)
Calvin emails to thank the show for test day tips he utilized while taking the December LSAT. Nathan’s insistence that there is no such thing as a “weird” Logic Game kept Calvin calm and confident when he encountered a new-looking game on the test. (31:48)
We continue working our way through the June 2007 LSAT with two more Logical Reasoning problems. To play at home just download the free test, work through Section 3, Questions 12 and 13, and listen in as we discuss the solutions in detail. (#12 at 37:20 and #13 at 49:06)
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 77 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. This is Ben Olson in Washington, D.C. the and Del Rey, it's like 35 degrees warmer here than it was in Toronto. |
0:25.9 | I went for a long walk this morning. |
0:28.2 | It's, I'm very happy to be back in Southern California. |
0:32.0 | Yeah, well, 35 degrees warmer. |
0:34.0 | How warm is it? |
0:35.0 | It is like, yeah, it's like 65 degrees. |
0:39.0 | Wow. Okay. |
0:40.0 | Cool. |
0:41.0 | Anything exciting other than your walk since you've been home? |
0:44.0 | No, I just got in yesterday, so I'm just kind of getting my new world headquarters set up here in Los Angeles. |
0:52.0 | Your world headquarters. headquarters set up here in Los Angeles. |
0:53.0 | Your world headquarters. |
0:55.0 | That's what I'm calling it, yeah. |
0:57.0 | You don't have a class right now, right? |
0:58.0 | Your classes start in January or no? |
1:01.0 | Correct. |
1:02.0 | Yeah, I have classes starting in Los Angeles and San Francisco in like |
1:06.9 | the 10th of January okay yeah well I my class just started for the February Elsat on Monday, and so that's been pretty fun. |
1:20.0 | We just jumped right in to the games so |
1:23.4 | Cool. Yeah, I've never worked in December really but it seems like you you are able to fill your class |
1:29.2 | I've never even dried actually I just |
1:34.0 | I figured that holidays nobody wants to do else that stuff I guess that's dumb well we |
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