The Day Before Your Official LSAT—Revisited (Ep. 301)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
The June LSAT is right around the corner. What should you do on the day before the official test? On today’s episode, the guys reevaluate their long-standing advice to take the day off. They also review a personal statement from a listener who missed the mark in attempting to follow Nathan’s template. The Pearls vs. Turds scoreboard is updated after Ben and Nathan analyze a tip about guessing. And finally, Nathan explains why he’s yelling at the LSAT—and why you should yell at it, too. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | One definition of explicit language is, |
| 0:06.0 | stated clearly and in detail, |
| 0:09.0 | leaving no room for confusion or doubt. |
| 0:11.0 | That's why we use those words. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 301 of the Thinking El-SAP podcast a lot of good stuff on the show today. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Ben we I believe we started off with a conversation about whether you should |
| 0:32.3 | taper off your studying before the official test. |
| 0:36.0 | And somewhat surprisingly, I think we decided, maybe, maybe not. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.0 | How about it doesn't matter whether you do or not? |
| 0:48.0 | Stop taking it so damn seriously. |
| 0:50.0 | But anyways, we had a pretty long conversation about whether that's a good idea or not and I think I certainly have changed my mind on that |
| 0:58.9 | Topic just recently, you know, 15 years later teaching the alsat, and I think I'm kind of changing my tune on whether you should taper off or take the day off before the test. |
| 1:09.0 | Our conclusion is basically, stop being so damn precious about it because you're giving the test more power than it really deserves. |
| 1:15.0 | We read a personal statement from T. T tried to follow my advice in a recent newsletter, |
| 1:22.0 | a recent lesson with a template maybe that people could follow for writing |
| 1:27.8 | their personal statement. |
| 1:29.2 | T was inspired and attempted to follow that template but I think missed the mark unfortunately. |
| 1:37.0 | Sorry T we love you we do we're not attacking you but that personal statement is pretty much a fail. |
| 1:46.1 | You need to go back to the drawing board on that one. |
| 1:48.8 | We had a Pearls versus Tirds featuring a video from Elsack that we haven't really had time to dig back into |
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