Every Word Matters (Ep. 485)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Good lawyers aren’t afraid to pause when they don’t understand something. They read and reread until they figure it out. This week, Ben and Nathan discuss why this lawyerly trait is crucial to mastering the LSAT. Later, the guys reject a purported downside to retaking the LSAT. They speculate about AI’s impact on the legal profession. And they consider the value of paying for the prestige of a top law school.
1:46 - Every Word Matters - LSAT beginners and veterans alike make most of their mistakes because of sloppy reading. Ben and Nathan urge listeners to read like lawyers: every word matters.
23:32 - Pearls vs. Turds - Will law school admissions officers brand you as a “perfectionist” if you retake the LSAT? Would that label hurt your admissions chances?
34:41 - AI and Law - Listener Charlie worries about AI’s impact on the legal profession. Nathan and Ben argue that AI will empower attorneys, not replace them.
44:47 - Pay for Prestige? - Listener Trip wants to practice family law in a small city. The guys advise Trip to attend a regional law school on a full-ride scholarship rather than pay for the prestige of a higher-ranked school.
50:55 - LSAT and ADHD - Listener Victoria feels overwhelmed by the length of the passages in Reading Comprehension. Ben and Nathan encourage Victoria to focus on one sentence at a time.
57:26 - Tutoring - The guys discuss when students should pursue one-on-one LSAT tutoring and how to make the most of it.
1:03:21 - Low GPA - Soft factors don’t make up for—or excuse—a low GPA. Nathan and Ben urge listener Elis to prioritize grades over extracurriculars.
1:07:67 - Word of the Week - The University of Texas at Austin School of Law prefers “Texas Law” to the more pithy sobriquet “UT.”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The LSAT is going to keep teaching you over and over and over that you need to take this shit seriously. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 485 of the Thinking ElSat podcast. I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:20.4 | We're the co-founders of ElSaddemon.com and the Elside Demonat podcast. I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox. We're the co-founders of |
| 0:21.5 | Elsaid Demon.com and the Elsaid Demon Daily podcast. Be Elsat famous, share news and ask |
| 0:27.1 | questions on our website, thinkingelsat.com. When is this going to air? This is going to air on |
| 0:32.6 | December 16th. Coming up on Tuesday, December 24th, that's the February LSAT registration deadline. |
| 0:40.6 | The January LSAT, of course, is in the middle of January. |
| 0:45.4 | Let's, I don't have a lot to say about those dates. Do you? |
| 0:49.3 | No, we've got a free class coming up, though, that we should tell everybody about on January 18th. |
| 0:55.0 | That's happening at noon Eastern time, 9 a.m. Pacific taught by Demon Tudor Abbey. |
| 1:04.8 | Abbey is a super popular teacher at Elsaat Demon. |
| 1:08.0 | His journey, he went from a 157 to a 177 on the LSAT, doing it our way and now teaches for us. |
| 1:17.2 | So if you want to hear about the experience of somebody who learned how to do it our way |
| 1:24.1 | and see how easy the test can actually be, you should join that Saturday brunch class |
| 1:30.6 | with Abbey. Again, Saturday, January 18th at noon, how do people sign up for that? |
| 1:37.1 | Yeah, just go to elseaddemand.com forward slash free. Yeah, create an account and sign up. |
| 1:47.3 | Awesome. All right, let's jump into these emails. |
| 1:53.8 | This first one is from Josh. It's a little long. Josh says, Ben and Nathan, I just started prepping for the LSAT seven days ago. I spend about 20 minutes a day drilling here and there |
| 1:58.9 | and listen to an episode a day of the Thinking |
| 2:03.0 | Elseap podcast. I scored a 162 on my first full-length practice test this morning. I then spent |
| 2:10.1 | about two or two and a half hours reviewing my wrong answers. I did reasonably well in logical |
| 2:15.2 | reasoning and have room for improvement in the reading comprehension. |
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