Maximizing Your LSAT Score (Ep. 541)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
A viewer asks whether to register for the LSAT while their scores are still improving. Ben and Nathan advise the student to sign up if they are happy with their scores but continue to study as they still have room to improve.
Also in this episode
- How to handle studying on “difficult” days
- Whether to accept a conditional scholarship or keep studying for a higher score
- Another contestant on the Personal Statement Gong Show
Check out all of our “What’s the Deal With” segments
Get caught up with our Word of the Week library
0:00 Studying on “Difficult Days”
5:17 Test D Question — “Mount Stupid”
24:04 Things We Actually Enjoy
28:03 Attending with a Conditional Scholarship
43:36 Maximizing Your LSAT Score
48:20 Wrong Answer Journal
51:17 Trust the Process
58:08 Personal Statement Gong Show
1:05:19 Word of the week — heterodox
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | you should go ahead and take it and you should take the next one and the next one and the next one |
| 0:04.8 | until you get a 175 or higher. I mean, your offers aren't going to get worse if you get higher |
| 0:12.3 | scores. But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good here. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 541 of the Thinking Elseap podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Ben Olson. |
| 0:30.8 | With me is Nathan Fox. We're the co-founders of Elsaiddemon.com and the Elside Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | We are starting with an email from Emma, subject studying on rough days. |
| 0:42.3 | Emma says, hey, Ben and Nate, love the demon, and I was one of your top listeners in 2025. |
| 0:48.8 | I know that I, like many others, have good days and bad days on the LSAT. |
| 0:54.3 | I was wondering if it's a good idea not to push on those bad days. |
| 0:59.7 | For example, maybe cutting a study session short when I'm having trouble focusing, |
| 1:04.7 | or would it be a good idea to push harder on those days? |
| 1:09.7 | What do you think? |
| 1:11.3 | I think if you're having trouble focusing, you should step away from what you're doing |
| 1:16.8 | and try to, you know, reboot. |
| 1:21.8 | If you can study more that day, great. |
| 1:24.3 | If not, come back the next day. |
| 1:26.3 | I mean, people can obviously abuse this and just always |
| 1:31.0 | have an excuse to not study. But if you're studying five, six days a week and occasionally you need |
| 1:37.3 | a break, that's probably smarter than pushing through and developing bad habits. Yeah, I agree. There's also a half measure that I might recommend to Emma try, |
| 1:49.0 | which is to just, how about take a five-minute break? |
| 1:53.2 | I mean, can you just close your eyes for a couple minutes, like rest for a couple minutes, |
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