LSAC's Stealth RC Change (Ep. 543)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the January LSAT, some test-takers noticed their RC section lacked a comparative reading passage. LSAC had quietly updated the test to allow zero to one comparative passages per RC section. Ben and Nathan explain why this change should have no impact on test-takers.
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| 0:00.0 | Test takers were surprised this week by a format change in the test that the law school |
| 0:03.9 | admission council did not announce ahead of time. Some tests had no comparative passages in the |
| 0:10.0 | reading comprehension portion of the test. It is kind of like not actually a big deal, but it |
| 0:15.0 | sure seems like a big deal to some people. Hello and welcome to episode 543 of the Thinking Elsaat podcast. I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan |
| 0:30.6 | Fox. We're the co-founders of Elsaid Demon.com and the Elsaid Demon Daily podcast. We have an |
| 0:35.9 | ABA news item here after, yeah. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm not sure how much news there actually is here. |
| 0:43.4 | But yeah, from Central Florida Public Media, we have an article that says after |
| 0:48.0 | governors urging Florida Supreme Court opens doors to new law school accreditors. |
| 0:53.7 | Florida voted five to one that the American Bar Association is no longer the primary or only |
| 0:59.8 | accreditor of law schools in Florida. |
| 1:03.1 | Blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:05.5 | Florida can now start reaching out to alternate accreditors starting October 1st. |
| 1:14.2 | And any new accreditors of universities have to be approved by the U.S. Department of Education. |
| 1:19.7 | Apparently, the American Bar Association is the only currently approved accreditor by the U.S. |
| 1:24.7 | Department of Education. |
| 1:25.6 | I assume that the reason why that's relevant is because of access to federal funds. So I don't know how much impact this can possibly have |
| 1:35.3 | in the short run. It seems like nothing is going to happen until October 1st. Florida, like Texas, |
| 1:42.3 | Florida is the second state now to do this. |
| 1:52.4 | Conservative states that are upset with the liberal politics and they're just lashing out, exactly. |
| 1:59.7 | It seems as if there, I thought Texas was going to have their own state Supreme Court accredited law schools. |
| 2:01.8 | It seems like they were taking it on themselves. |
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