The Hello and welcome to the Thinking Elsap podcast this is Ben Olson in Washington, D.C.

And with me is Nathan Fox in San Francisco,

and this is episode 9.

And it's going to be a little free form today. We're going to talk about the things we both just had classes that recently started and we're going to talk about some of the things we're going to talk about in those classes at the beginning partly because those things are

pretty important to the test and repeat themselves several times so

Nathan how's it going?

Oh, it's really good.

Yeah, I'm excited about the format actually.

I think that we can do this periodically, you know, as we both teach classes that are headed toward the September 2014

L-SAT.

We can give the listeners some updates from time to time on how the class is doing.

So I'm prepared to share a little bit.

I've got the data here actually on how the class did on their first practice test so we can talk about where they're at and then we can

kind of update where they're at a few weeks from now maybe. Yeah great no this would be exciting especially since the questions kind of

tend to change as you get closer to the test so probably be questions that a lot of our

listeners have as they are preparing as well.

Yeah I think starting now episode 9 for listeners if you're if you're just listening

with us live that's great but you know this is going to live on forever so if you're

listing sometime in the future this will be a good place to kind of start because

you'll be able to follow along with a real El-Sat class over the span of a few months.

Yep.

So the other day, Nathan, you mentioned a couple of things that you talk about at the beginning,

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