LSAT Prep Is Law School Prep (Ep. 476)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The LSAT tests three main things: reading comprehension, critical thinking, and work ethic. All of those are also crucial to success in law school. This week, Nathan and Ben discuss how LSAT prep goes hand in hand with law school prep. The guys also react to new restrictions on legacy admissions. They compare scholarship outcomes for full-time and part-time students. And they write the only LSAT addendum you’ll ever need.
4:08 - Career Change - Ben and Nathan advise listener Shirley to do some research before she commits to a career change. The guys also recommend a consistent LSAT study schedule, and they press Shirley to aim for a score in the 160s or higher.
14:00 - Legacy Admissions - California recently became the fifth state to ban legacy and donor preferences in college admissions. Nathan and Ben are skeptical that the new law will have much of an effect.
20:55 - Score Variance - The guys assure listener Daniel that it’s perfectly normal to score in a ten-point range on practice tests.
23:44 - LSAT Addendum - Some law schools invite applicants to submit an addendum explaining any significant LSAT score increase. Ben and Nathan question schools’ motivation for soliciting this addendum.
33:56 - Law School Prep - Listener Jack is worried that a great LSAT score might oversell his ability to compete at a top law school. Nathan and Ben ease Jack’s concerns: LSAT prep is good law school prep.
43:02 - Apply in February? - Listener Jackson asks if applying as late as February would diminish his admissions chances. Ben and Nathan urge Jackson to apply next cycle.
47:52 - Scholarships for Part-Time Students - Law schools differ in how they award scholarships to part-time students. Applicants to part-time programs should check law schools’ ABA 509 reports before applying.
53:11 - Logical Reasoning: Conclusion - The guys tackle a Conclusion question from PrepTest 123. Try the question for yourself. Then, listen to Ben and Nathan’s explanation.
1:04:55 - Tips from a Departing Demon - LSAT Demon student Jimmy says: “You are going to hate the idea of slowing down to speed up. You are going to hate not finishing sections at times. However, it is Ben and Nathan's most important advice.”
1:09:59 - Word of the Week - Applying late in the cycle can be tantamount to applying with a lower LSAT score.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Preping for the L-Sat is preparation for law school. |
| 0:03.0 | If you talk to any of our teachers, |
| 0:05.0 | they will universally tell you |
| 0:07.0 | that they are reminded of their L-Sat prep |
| 0:10.0 | by the things that they encounter in law school. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 476 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Nathan Fox with me is Van Olson. |
| 0:26.0 | We are the co-founder of Elsat Demon. |
| 0:28.0 | Com and the Elsat Demon Daily Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | You can be Elsat famous by sharing news or asking questions on our website thinking |
| 0:34.5 | El-Sat.com. Ben you have a free class coming up. Anybody who wants to take a |
| 0:39.7 | free with Ben you just go to El-Sat Demon.com forward slash free. I understand a |
| 0:45.3 | Ben that you're going to talk mostly about reading comprehension in that class. |
| 0:48.4 | Exactly. Yeah, we're going to do a passage in class. I'm going to have everyone do it and then I'm going to have everyone do it and then I'm going to go through it |
| 0:55.9 | myself and just show you how to read these passages. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, what type of passage is it Ben? |
| 1:01.3 | I need to know in advance what type of passage it is. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, I don't know what type it is. That makes me a little nervous, but no. |
| 1:11.0 | It doesn't matter. Yeah, we get suggestions all the time, right? I like, I filter the suggestion box a lot. |
| 1:19.8 | And one of the things that was suggested this morning |
| 1:23.0 | was, I just really wish that the L-Sat demon guys |
| 1:26.4 | would, I wish they would talk about different types of passages |
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