Escaping a Score Plateau (Ep. 472)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve hit a score plateau, you might feel like you’re spinning your wheels—stuck in place despite your best attempts to make forward progress. How do you regain traction? This week, Nathan and Ben advise a discouraged student to ease up on the gas pedal and take it one question at a time. Later, the guys address the problem of tuition inflation in higher education. They frame law school as a trade school. And they tackle a Necessary Assumption question from PrepTest 135.
2:39 - Stuck in a Plateau - Ben and Nathan guide listener Michael away from untimed practice tests and suggest a better way to review his mistakes.
14:48 - $81,000 Tuition - The guys shake their heads at Cornell Law School’s astronomical tuition.
24:03 - Student Loan Forgiveness - According to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, “the CBO estimates that a quarter of new student debt issued next year—$22.1 billion—will get written off.” Nathan and Ben consider the failures of the student loan system and suggest ways to reign in the cost of higher education.
39:59 - Law Is a Trade - Listener Ben seeks a steady job in the law. The guys advise Ben to rethink his motivation for pursuing a legal career.
45:49 - Logical Reasoning: Necessary Assumption - The guys attempt a Necessary Assumption question from PrepTest 135. Try the question yourself. Then, listen to Ben and Nathan’s explanation.
54:31 - Tips from a Departing Demon - LSAT Demon student Senyo affirms the Demon way: “Read carefully, evaluate the argument (or think about the set of facts) before looking at the actual question, try to predict the answer, take as much time as you need to answer the question, review anything that gives you trouble, and do not move on until you fully understand it.”
56:46 - Word of the Week - The LSAT student was miraculously unfazed by their skirling neighbor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ben, do you ever tell people, oh, go do a test on time? |
| 0:03.0 | I do see really when you're not here, but yeah. |
| 0:05.0 | Okay, good. I'm glad you do it when I'm not around, |
| 0:07.0 | because I wouldn't stand for that shit. |
| 0:09.0 | Like, what are you doing? link. of the thinking Elsat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox. With me is Ben Olsen. We are the co-founders of |
| 0:25.6 | Elsat demon.com and the Elsat demon daily podcast. You can be Elsat famous on either |
| 0:30.8 | podcast but share news and ask questions on our website thinking |
| 0:36.0 | L-Sat.com. If you go to L-Sat-Daman.com forward slash free you'll start getting |
| 0:42.0 | invited to all sorts of interesting free classes. The next one is actually today, Monday, September 16th. It's a free class with Chris one of our most popular teachers at |
| 0:55.6 | Elsat Demon. The class is called the Tao of Elsat. It's going to cover both |
| 0:59.6 | logical reasoning and reading comprehension. |
| 1:07.6 | That's 2 p.m. I believe well, sorry, West Coast time. I think it's 2 p.m. So it's a little earlier |
| 1:15.0 | East Coast time today. You'll be able to watch the recording of that if you have an El-Sat-Daman-free account again. It's El-Sat-Daman.com forward slash free. Next, oh go ahead. Yeah, the Tao in that title is referring to fact |
| 1:25.4 | that Chris is gonna talk about slowing down |
| 1:28.9 | and seeing the test for what it really is, |
| 1:34.8 | and that will make it easier for you. I imagine, yeah, I mean that's kind of our, the most common refrain probably at El-SAT Demon |
| 1:41.6 | is this test is easy if you let it be. If you learn to just slow down and actually |
| 1:48.6 | understand what it's saying, the questions are very solvable from there. |
| 1:53.4 | So yeah, can't wait to hear how people like that free class with Chris. |
| 1:59.1 | Next deadline that you guys need to keep an eye on is Thursday September 26th. |
| 2:04.0 | That's the deadline to register for the November, Elsat. |
| 2:07.0 | You really don't need to register for that test in advance. |
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