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🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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The 300th episode kicks off with one of the best first drafts of a personal statement we’ve ever had on the show—after Ben and Nathan chop off the final paragraph, that is. Then, the guys evaluate a Pearls vs. Turds candidate about writing addenda to explain score increases (spoiler: don’t do it). They also reminisce about the old days of in-person LSAT classes and, finally, attack another Logical Reasoning question from PrepTest 73. Read more on our website!
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0:00.0 | The following podcast contains language that some people describe as unsavory, |
0:04.3 | but the first definition of savory is belonging to the category that is salty or spicy rather than sweet. |
0:12.0 | So I guess we use unsavory language because it's so damn savory. Hello and welcome to episode 300 of the Thinking Elsap podcast. |
0:27.6 | Today on the show we talked about a personal statement that started out really well and then kind of crashed at the end. |
0:35.4 | Really, really well though, like one of the best personal statements we've ever read. |
0:40.2 | Yeah, it was good. So thank you for sure. Thank you to Jake for sharing. It was really great and he had us sold until the last paragraph and then the last paragraph just totally sucked and needed to be cut entirely but it was great up until then. |
0:55.9 | So thanks. Yeah we had a Pearls versus Tirds about writing addendoms. Yep for for a score increases. |
1:03.0 | Yep. |
1:04.0 | And then we did a logical reasoning question. |
1:08.0 | That was it. |
1:10.0 | We did. |
1:11.0 | We did a strengthening question. |
1:12.0 | About the days of in-person dingy |
1:16.7 | Elsack classes. |
1:18.8 | You know, it's episode 300. |
1:20.4 | It's a I think we're allowed to do a little bit of reminiscing. A lot has changed over the past year and even more than that has changed in the course of 300 episodes of thinking else at. |
1:31.0 | So yeah, we did go into the way back machine a little bit with stories from our old classroom |
1:36.1 | classes which was fun. Yeah, this will air on Monday, May 31st. The June--SAT is just around the corner on June 12th, starting June 12th, |
1:47.6 | Friday, July 2nd. So two days before Independence Day is the August L-SAT registration deadline for that test, which will start August 14th. |
2:00.0 | If you have not heard about Nathan's, well June I guess even at this point still, June and |
2:09.1 | August Elsat study groups, they meet on Thursdays at 4 p.m. |
2:13.8 | Pacific 7 p.m. eastern all you have to have to join that |
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