The LSAT Is a Mindset, Not a Strategy (Ep. 334)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The LSAT makes perfect sense. The best way to improve is to focus on understanding one question at a time. Ben and Nathan explain why study methods that overemphasize strategy—at the expense of understanding—are counterproductive. Then, they dive into the listener mailbag and talk about what types of information might negatively impact a law school résumé. They wrap up with some comments on applying to law school as a veteran and/or with a criminal record.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast uses words that lawyers don't use in court, even though they're thinking them. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, welcome to episode 334 of the Thinking Elsat |
| 0:16.7 | podcast this will air on Monday January 24th. The February Elsat is getting closer. |
| 0:24.0 | It's going to start the week of February 12th. |
| 0:26.0 | The March-L-S-Sat registration deadline is even closer. |
| 0:30.0 | That's going to be Thursday, February 3rd. |
| 0:32.0 | Really, if you're taking that's going to be Thursday, February 3rd. |
| 0:33.0 | Really, if you're taking the March Elsat, |
| 0:36.0 | it's because you're thinking about applying |
| 0:39.0 | in 2022, not starting law school in 20, in most cases. |
| 0:45.0 | You're trying to take, yeah, in the vast majority of cases, I guess today we had someone |
| 0:49.4 | who is taking March and probably going to start in 2022. |
| 0:53.0 | But for the vast majority of people out there, |
| 0:55.1 | hopefully you're signing up for the March Elsat |
| 0:57.4 | to turn around and apply in this September |
| 1:01.0 | and then go to school the following September. |
| 1:04.0 | Anyways, um... |
| 1:07.0 | How was Cleveland? |
| 1:08.0 | Oh wait, let's talk about what we did on the show and then I want to, I want to hear about to hear about Cleveland so we had three long |
| 1:15.1 | emails today huh that's right so three long emails the first one was from a |
| 1:20.2 | seven sage student I presume who was using their platform and whatever was providing some kind advice to someone else and went through a lot of I don't know things that we would think are not good ways of |
| 1:36.7 | studying for the test but then came around to advice that could come from the podcast. |
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