Understanding Your Score Range (Ep. 560)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
A listener who scored at the low end of their range on two official attempts asks Ben and Nate if they should delay their June test. Ben and Nathan explain that scoring within your range, even at the bottom of it, is completely normal and advise the listener to keep studying as usual.
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| 0:00.0 | You say that those are at the bottom end of your range. There's nothing wrong with that. That happens. Each data point within your range is a coin flip. Heads you get above the median of your range. Tails you get below the median of your range. And you flipped tails twice in a row. Who cares? That doesn't mean anything. All you got to do is take it three more times. And all you got to do is flip heads once. and you're're pretty good at to do that. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 560 of the Thinking ElSat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox and with me is Ben Olson. We're the co-founders of ElsetDemon.com and the Elset Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | We're going to jump right into a listener email here from D, who apparently has a 166 L-Sat, but D is saying something is going wrong and I need your help. |
| 0:50.3 | Okay. |
| 0:51.3 | Hi, Demon Team, big fan of you guys in the podcast. |
| 0:55.2 | I am in need of some serious help here. |
| 0:57.8 | I've been studying on the paid plan since January. |
| 1:01.9 | Okay, it's currently May. |
| 1:03.6 | And my test scores have been in the range where I've wanted them to be for a while now. |
| 1:07.4 | So I've taken the February and April LSATs. |
| 1:09.9 | I scored a 164 and a 166 respectively. |
| 1:14.7 | I figured that's not outside my range and also probably due to some test anxiety. So I just |
| 1:20.7 | decided to hunker down and keep up the solid practice scores to take the test again in June. |
| 1:26.0 | Perfect strategy. |
| 1:28.5 | I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, consistent drilling and time sections |
| 1:33.6 | and thorough review, to the extent that I can while working full-time, often over time, |
| 1:39.9 | as a legal assistant at a big law firm. |
| 1:43.1 | I know you guys say not to obsess over the numbers, |
| 1:46.0 | but these big fat ones stare at me every time I log on. |
| 1:50.7 | And as you can see below, my ratings have fallen |
| 1:54.8 | like a lot over the last month. |
| 1:58.5 | It seems like I can get 10 level fours right and one wrong, and they will just |
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