Read Better, Not Faster (Ep. 405)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Reading faster won’t solve your problems on LSAT Reading Comprehension. On this week’s pod, Ben and Nathan encourage a time-conscious student to slow down and focus on understanding what they read, not how quickly they read it. Later, the guys discuss why it’s crucial to remain open to taking the LSAT up to five times. They explain the difference between finding the main point of an RC passage and the main conclusion of an LR argument. And they hear from a student who praises LSAT Demon’s intuitive approach to the LSAT.
0:47 - Read Better, Not Faster - Listener Connor worries that he reads too slowly to score well in LSAT Reading Comprehension or on his future law school exams. Nathan and Ben assure Connor that reading slowly isn’t a problem, but reading poorly is. The guys also briefly discuss disability accommodations in law school.
14:24 - LSAT Cross-Training - An anonymous listener credits their Logic Games practice for some of their progress in Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. Ben and Nathan confirm that improving at one section of the LSAT can make you better at all sections of the test.
18:33 - Expect to Retake - Listener Emily fears that she won’t match her practice test scores on her official test. The guys encourage Emily to overcome this fear by embracing the idea that she can take the test up to five times, and only her highest score matters.
34:04 - Finding the Main Point in RC - Nathan and Ben discuss how to uncover the main point of an RC passage—and how doing so differs from identifying the main conclusion of an LR argument.
44:36 - Trust Your Intuition - Listener David asks an overly technical question about mistakes in conditional logic. Ben and Nathan implore David to forget these technicalities and approach the test more intuitively. The guys then hear from a student who wholeheartedly endorses LSAT Demon’s intuitive approach to the LSAT.
1:00:42 - Nathan Wins the Bet - Listener Robert shares evidence to settle Ben and Nathan’s bet about whether high school sweethearts fare worse in marriage than other couples do.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 405 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox. With me is Ben Olson. We are the co-founder of Elsat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox with me is Ben Olson. We are the co-founders of |
| 0:14.1 | Elsat demon demon.com and the Elsat demon daily podcast. You can be Elsat famous |
| 0:19.1 | share news and ask questions on our website thinking Elsat.com. Let's see today is May 30th so |
| 0:29.0 | nothing really big on the agenda June Elsat is coming up. Good luck if you're registered for that. |
| 0:37.0 | Scores for that will be out at the end of June. Next registration deadline to look at is June 29th, which is the deadline for the August |
| 0:45.4 | 2023 test. We've got an email here from Connor. The subject is struggling with |
| 0:51.5 | reading comprehension. |
| 0:53.0 | Ben and Nathan, I am a current subscriber to the demon and have improved my score from 149 to 162 over the past two months. |
| 1:01.0 | My goal is the high 170s. Average breakdown per section. |
| 1:05.3 | Logical reasoning minus one to minus five. Logic games minus one to zero. |
| 1:10.5 | That's interesting. |
| 1:13.9 | Connor gave us those in reverse order. |
| 1:16.8 | Reading Cobb, minus 11 to minus 15. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm a frequent listener to the Thinking Elsat |
| 1:22.0 | and the Elsadat Demon Daily podcasts. |
| 1:25.0 | Many times I have heard the phrase that the reading comp section of the three sections on the |
| 1:30.4 | L-Sat is the closest to practicing law slash law school. |
| 1:35.4 | I said that in class yesterday. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.3 | I said it in the context of lawyers are professional students and your job is to learn everything there is to learn |
| 1:49.2 | about whatever the topic is in these very random reading comp passages. |
| 1:57.0 | Yesterday it was the comparative reading passage about purple loose strife, |
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