How to Take Your Last LSAT (Ep. 535)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A listener writes in asking how to handle the pressure of their final official LSAT attempt. Ben and Nathan remind them that their highest score on record, a 165, is already strong enough for full scholarships at many law schools. They encourage the listener to let go of perfectionism, be comfortable with not finishing a section, and approach test day expecting incremental improvement.
Also in this episode:
- An update on an LSAC cheating allegation
- Ben and Nathan react to the ABA lifting its probation of Cooley Law
- Advice from Demon students who recently crushed the LSAT
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0:00 Update on Cheating Allegations
5:24 ABA Lifts Probation for Cooley
10:50 How to Approach Your Last Official Attempt
21:44 Tips from Departing Demons
34:25 Chances at a T14 as a Super kJD
41:10 Pearls vs. Turds
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have any advice on how to avoid putting a lot of pressure on this last remaining test? |
| 0:05.3 | There's certainly no rush, right? |
| 0:06.9 | I mean, I definitely wouldn't rush. |
| 0:08.9 | Just do your best. |
| 0:10.4 | Have fun with it. |
| 0:12.3 | And if it goes up, great. |
| 0:14.0 | If it doesn't, apply or do something else. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 535 of the Thinking LSAT podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Ben Olson. |
| 0:31.3 | With me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:35.2 | We're the co-founders of Elsaid Demon.com and the Elsaid Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | We have an update from Carter. Carter wrote into the Thinking Elsat podcast, episode 532, after Elsac accused him of cheating, he sent a follow-up email to us |
| 0:47.0 | after taking our advice to submit all his evidence of studying. This is what he said. |
| 0:52.4 | The subject on the email is Allegations of Cheating Update. |
| 0:56.0 | It says, hello, Ben, Nathan, and the LSAT demon team. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm writing to follow up on the allegations of cheating |
| 1:01.0 | that I received from Elsaac's Office of Test Security. |
| 1:03.7 | I ended up following your advice |
| 1:05.0 | and writing their questioned test score review board |
| 1:09.0 | a letter that documented the differences in preparation between my June |
| 1:13.2 | and August LSATs. There was a bit of a scare. Check this out, Ben. There was a bit of a scare with |
| 1:19.5 | them immediately responding that their board had reviewed my case and that they had determined |
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