New Year's LSAT Resolutions (Ep. 435)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year! Nathan and Ben kick off 2024 with New Year’s resolutions for LSAT students. The guys also discuss whether nontraditional applicants face a disadvantage in law school admissions. They endorse a slow-and-steady approach to Reading Comprehension. And they assess the LSAT timelines of listeners who may miss out on Logic Games.
1:02 - New Year’s Resolutions - The guys propose some New Year’s resolutions for LSAT students.
14:28 - Nontraditional Applicants - “Nontraditional” applicants aren’t disadvantaged in law school admissions. Law schools often prefer students with work experience.
23:11 - Test Schedule - Listener Timothy wants to take the LSAT before the Logic Games go away, but his practice test scores fall short of what he needs for the T14. Ben and Nathan urge Timothy not to rush his timeline.
28:59 - Pearls vs. Turds - Listener Sneha was told to attempt only the first three passages in Reading Comprehension. Can ignoring the final passage lead to better scores in RC?
44:08 - Conservatives in Law School - An anonymous listener worries that they’ll be treated differently in law school because of their conservative political views. But law schools aren’t as liberal as people think.
54:24 - Accommodations
Listener Jackson was granted extra time for the LSAT. But with the accommodation has come an unexpected challenge: a temptation to overthink certain questions. Nathan and Ben counsel Jackson to ease up on his perfectionism and to practice gratitude for his LSAT achievements.
1:00:15 - Letters of Recommendation - Nathan and Ben help listener Finn decide who to ask for a professional letter of recommendation.
1:04:05 - LG or No LG? - Logic Games is currently Susan’s weakest section—should she wait to take the LSAT without games? Ben and Nathan encourage Susan not to give up on LG.
1:08:51 - Words of the Week - Eschew unnecessarily redundant tautologies.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 435 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. I'm Nathan Fox with me is Ben Olson. We're the co-founder of El-Sat Podcasts, I'm Nathan Fox with me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:14.0 | We're the co-founder of El-Sat Demon.com and the El-Sat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | If you'd like to be El-Sat Famous, you can share news or ask questions with us on our website thinking |
| 0:24.2 | L-Sat.com. We have a free class coming up with me it's double black diamond it's our |
| 0:29.7 | expert level logical reasoning class if you'd like to see what logical reasoning classes |
| 0:34.0 | look like with us at the highest level that's Wednesday January 24th at 9 p.m. Eastern, Pacific. |
| 0:43.7 | Again, it's a free class. |
| 0:45.1 | You just go to El-Sat. |
| 0:46.3 | link slash free and you can sign up for that class |
| 0:50.9 | and a free demon account as well, which gets you all sorts of goodies so if you've been |
| 0:55.1 | listening to the show at all and you like our advice please please take advantage of that |
| 0:59.0 | at el sat demon.com okay producer Eric wanted us to kick it off today with this Okay, |
| 1:02.8 | producer Eric wanted us to kick it off today with this question. Ben, if you could propose one |
| 1:07.4 | New Year's resolution for L-Sat students, what would it be? |
| 1:11.6 | The first thing that pops into my mind, which we've said so many times, |
| 1:16.0 | so maybe this isn't new, but I still think it's a valuable resolution, |
| 1:21.0 | and that is to focus on one question at a time. |
| 1:24.0 | One question at a time and want to develop that a little bit further. |
| 1:29.0 | Sure, yeah, when you're studying for the L-SAT, people can get all caught up in, hey, what score did I just get on that test? |
| 1:36.8 | Let me take another test to see if I can get a higher score. |
| 1:39.9 | How many questions did I finish in that section? |
| 1:42.0 | Oh, I didn't finish the section yada yada yada it |
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