New LSAT Writing (Ep. 467)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Nathan discuss the new format for LSAT Writing and critique a practice essay submitted by an LSAT Demon student. Later, the guys delve into an LSAC report on test-taker statistics, and they question whether accommodations truly level the playing field.
1:11 - New LSAT Writing - Nathan and Ben review listener Valerie’s response to the new LSAT Argumentative Writing sample prompt, offering guidance on how to construct a compelling essay.
44:35 - Accommodations Concerns - Ben and Nathan address listeners’ concerns about LSAT accommodations. They encourage test takers who qualify for accommodations to request the support they need.
54:09 - Accommodations Statistics - Nathan and Ben examine statistics from LSAC that call into question the fairness of the current system for LSAT accommodations.
1:19:14 - Words of the Week - Don’t let student debt cause you penury and immiseration.
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| 0:00.0 | It's funny, right, because we're laughing about like, oh my God, I can't imagine that someone would ever do that. |
| 0:05.6 | But we're only laughing about that because we've seen people write personal statements that are like that. Hello and welcome to episode 467 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:26.5 | We're the co-founders of Elsat Demon.com and the Elsat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | Be Elsat famous, share news and ask questions on our website, thinking El-Sat.com. |
| 0:36.0 | Coming up on Tuesday, October, sorry, August 13th, I'm just racing ahead in time. |
| 0:41.7 | That's tomorrow. We have our free class with Kevin. The |
| 0:45.0 | class is guilty or not guilty LR. That's where he's going to attack logical |
| 0:50.8 | reasoning arguments and figure out whether they're valid or invalid. |
| 0:54.6 | In most cases they're invalid, but the key is really trying to figure out why and Kevin will show |
| 1:00.2 | you. |
| 1:01.2 | So just go to Elsad Demon.com to sign up for that you can do |
| 1:05.3 | El-Sat Demon.com forward slash free to get a free account and to see that class. |
| 1:11.5 | All right so we have the new El-SAT writing sample. It's now out, right? And you asked for |
| 1:21.0 | listeners to submit their writing sample to the show for us to critique. |
| 1:27.8 | Someone did that. |
| 1:28.8 | Are you ready to read this? |
| 1:30.4 | I am. |
| 1:31.4 | I think maybe we should first read a little bit of the directions just so we can talk about how new |
| 1:36.8 | El-Sat writing is structured and then we can go through this submission and we can, you know, say pros and cons, here's what we think you did that followed the directions and maybe here's what we think you did that missed the mark. |
| 1:51.0 | Hopefully not too much of that. But it says the following task is designed to measure |
| 1:56.8 | your ability to write an argumentative essay. You will be presented with a debatable issue |
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