Overcoming a Score Plateau (Ep. 453)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ben and producer Erik team up to offer guidance on overcoming a score plateau. One key tip: Don’t fixate on your practice test scores. Later, Ben and Erik debunk the rumor that applicants hurt their admissions chances when they withdraw and reapply. They examine law schools’ employment outcome disclosures. And they discuss what it means to overthink the correct answer—and how to stop.
5:52 - Score Plateau - How do you break out of a score plateau? Stop worrying about your score, and focus on fixing individual mistakes.
16:20 - Downside to Reapplying? - An anonymous listener applied late in the cycle and received disappointing scholarship offers. Will law schools treat Anonymous unfavorably for declining these offers and reapplying next cycle?
22:07 - Judicial Clerkships - Must listener Alex attend a highly ranked law school to obtain a judicial clerkship? Erik and Ben investigate schools’ employment outcomes at abarequireddisclosures.org.
29:50 - Overthinking - We’re more likely to overthink answer choices when we rush our reading of the passage and fail to predict the answer. Avoid this trap by spending more time unpacking the passage before reading the answer choices.
36:50 - Group Classes vs. Solo Study - Ben and Erik suggest that listener Hannah try a month of Demon Live in preparation for the June LSAT.
39:37 - GPA Addendum - Erik and Ben help an anonymous listener write a GPA addendum to address an anomalous semester of bad grades.
40:57 - Transcript Error - Ben and Erik encourage an anonymous listener to be persistent in trying to remove an error on their undergraduate transcript.
44:24 - LSAT Survey - LSAT Demon now appears in the post-LSAT survey. Thanks to LSAT Demon student Laura for sharing the news.
46:23 - Words of the Week - Misers ascribe no merit to spending money.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's a natural fear for many people that when you start seeing the same scores over and over again |
| 0:06.5 | You ask is this my plateau is this as good as it's gonna get for me. Hello and welcome to episode 453 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Ben Olson, co-founder of El-Sat Demon.com |
| 0:26.4 | and the El-Sai Demon Daily Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | With me is Eric Johanson. |
| 0:30.8 | Podcast producer, teacher, tutor, what else Eric? |
| 0:39.0 | Occasionally, ask button respondent, but not too often these days. Yeah, teaching, producing the |
| 0:46.6 | podcast, that's most of what I do. Okay, so if someone sends in an ask button question and |
| 0:52.4 | they get a response from you they were lucky. |
| 0:56.4 | It was one of very few days out of the year when usually there was like Abigail was frantically |
| 1:02.0 | on slack saying hey we have too many questions can |
| 1:04.8 | anybody jump on to help out here so I was like okay yeah and you will answer the call |
| 1:10.0 | that's nice of you Eric and I notice that you do also step up and take classes a lot of times when people need help getting subs. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, it turns out when your teachers are largely law students and people who are on their way to law school, |
| 1:26.8 | they got to ask out a lot of the time. |
| 1:29.2 | They have busy schedules. |
| 1:30.4 | So yeah, happy to pick up all those substitute teaching shifts and teaching those classes is the highlight of my week honestly |
| 1:38.4 | I always come out of those classes in a good mood. It seems like because it's just |
| 1:42.4 | Fun to teach the |
| 1:43.2 | L-sat and talk to people about this stuff. It is fun to teach the L-sat and |
| 1:47.1 | talk to people about this stuff. It's also just so amazing how |
| 1:50.7 | supportive everybody is right? Like the class is ending and everybody's like, |
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