Episode 95: The digital LSAT pilot is a success!

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

00:00:24 – We kick off the show with a comedy update about a listener who showed up for the digital LSAT pilot at the wrong time.

00:01:20 – We speculate on why the June test happens in the afternoon?

00:02:23 – We express our excitement about LSAC changes after the recent Harvard Law / GRE announcement.

00:03:20 – We admit our Yale April Fool’s Day blunder. Eff you, April Fool’s Day!

00:05:30 – Big news! The LSAT no longer carries a “three attempts in any two year period” restriction.

00:08:27 – Ben talks about a quote from a movie producer he can’t remember the name of. Basically, “success forgives past sins.”

00:11:13 – Listener Hannah reports in with news from the digital LSAT.

00:16:25 – We speculate on when the digital LSAT will finally go live. Ben says June 2018, and Nathan takes the over.

00:18:02 – We discuss our current books, Nathan’s favorite place The Last Book Store, and book clubs.

00:25:08 – We talk about how cool it is when we encounter LSAT stuff in real life. Brancusi, anyone?

00:28:56 – More from the digital LSAT with listener Jacob.

00:31:14 – We discuss potential shortcomings of the digital implementation of the LSAT. Is it solving the correct problems?

00:41:14 – How not to do reading comprehension—flagging “main point,” “key evidence,” other nonsense.

00:47:50 – Next email (anonymous)

00:52:08 – Next email (not really Brad Pitt)

01:05:10 – To recap, we have four positive reports from the digital LSAT. It’s a hit!

01:07:35 – Shall we call it a show?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 95 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast. This is Ben Olson in Washington DC. With me today is Nathan Fox. How's it going Nathan?
0:17.0	Just fine. We got an exciting show today with all the digital L-SAT news?
0:24.0	Yeah, so the L-SAC has finally ramped things up and they administered the digital
0:31.0	L-SAT, which turned out to be, be I think version 49 that they had created and we have a ton of
0:36.3	emails on that and we just want to jump right into that so you said you had a good
0:40.9	email to get it started yeah we got one just says don't use my name
0:45.4	update. Don't drive four hours to take the digital pilot test and spend a ton of
0:51.1	money on travel expenses
0:52.6	only to get the starting times of the digital pilot
0:55.2	L-SAT and the June L-SAT mixed up.
0:58.3	Fuck!
0:59.6	H-tag dumbass.
1:01.0	That's the entire email that I got. Yeah that sucks. So he got there at like 1230 then.
1:10.0	Right and it that's brutal driving four hours, but maybe stayed in a hotel sounds like or something too.
1:16.0	But yeah, I guess it was a morning test, not an afternoon test.
1:22.0	Do you, by the way, do you know why the June test is afternoon?
1:26.0	I've always assumed that it was afternoon so that they could say,
1:31.0	hey look, we have a test in the afternoon if anyone complains about
1:34.7	the morning administration all you have to do is just wait until next year's one time that we do it
1:41.4	we offer it four times a year. And one of them is in the afternoon.
1:47.0	Just like the GRE, we allow, we have morning and afternoon, convenient morning and afternoon slots, just like the GRE.
1:57.0	Well, it looks like they're moving in the direction of modernization here with this new tablet-based digital
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