Episode 79: Little White Lies and the Diagramming Demon

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Nathan gives five (death)stars to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” while Ben shares a far more lukewarm review of his family’s new dog, a “Mountain Swissy” kind. (0:30)

In Episode 78, the guys read part of an email from Alec, a student who took the December LSAT but canceled his score after encountering an “unusual” Logic Game. They continue with Alec’s questions here in Episode 79. Topics covered include: dealing with the experimental section, choosing the best study materials, combining rules to make inferences, and deciding when to diagram on the test. (6:34)

An anonymous listener asks whether or not she should submit an addendum that uses a “white lie” to explain an LSAT absence from two years ago. Ben says the fib is not worth the risk and if the truth ever does get out it could have devastating consequences on her career. Nathan agrees that the truth is best in this and every case, as small lies lead to bigger, more complicated lies that are too difficult to keep track of. No matter the reason, the guys concur and urge people to be completely honest on their applications. (42:30)

We continue the June 2007 LSAT with a lengthy Logical Reasoning problem. To play at home just download the free test, work through Question #14 in Section 3, and listen in as we discuss the solution in detail. (48:30)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Thinking El-Sat Podcast. This is episode 79. I am Ben Olson in Washington DC and with me is Nathan Fox in
0:19.0	Los Angeles. Right? I am in Los Angeles yeah Yeah, how you doing?
0:23.0	Good, I'm doing great.
0:25.0	So you said you saw Rogue One and you loved it so much that you saw it again?
0:31.0	I have seen Rogue One twice already and it is amazing.
0:35.0	Episode 7 I think you and I agreed was a little mediocre. I mean it was fine it was a new
0:42.1	Star Wars movie but it was a little sort of
0:45.3	obvious and just you know not that surprising or anything. Yeah
0:51.8	well it kind of rehashed the same storyline.
0:55.0	Right, which we've talked about.
0:57.0	People don't need to probably hear us complain about that again,
1:00.0	but it was kind of a silly rip off of episode four.
1:04.2	But this, Rogue One is a completely new movie.
1:08.8	It is set in the time right before episode four it's about well I don't want to spoil it for
1:16.3	anybody but it's long been known that this movie is about how the rebels stole
1:21.2	the plans for the death star.
1:23.0	And it is just, it's really, really good.
1:27.0	It's a little shade darker than a lot of the Star Wars movies.
1:32.0	But in that way... than a lot of the Star Wars movies.
1:33.0	But in that way, it's like Empire Strikes Back,
1:36.6	which was the best of all of the original Star Wars movies.
1:40.9	So this one's way up there in in my favorite Star Wars movies and it's really great to have like a whole new set of characters and you know just a pretty solid action-packed movie people were cheering in the theater that I was in so
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