Your LSAT Is Your Application (Ep. 550)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
A listener asks whether they should quit their job to focus on LSAT study and law school applications. Ben and Nathan explain that there’s only so much productive studying you can do in a day and recommend keeping the job.
Also in this episode:
- Ben and Nathan poke fun at a New York Times article on homeownership with a clear flaw
- How to break out of a stuck practice test range
- Whether it makes sense to enroll with plans to transfer after 1L
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0:00 Randomly Doing Bad
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12:20 Stuck in the Low 160s
21:04 Asking for More Money
37:43 Quitting Job to Study for the LSAT
50:48 Misleading Rankings
1:01:38 Transferring After 1L
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Should I quit my job to study for the LSAT and work on applications? |
| 0:05.4 | You know, I'm not, I'm not saying don't quit your job, because I'm a pretty big fan of people quitting their jobs, |
| 0:11.5 | because there's a million other things out there you could do. |
| 0:14.0 | But I don't think the move is to go all in on law school, certainly not to go all in on LSAT prep. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah. all in on law school, certainly not to go all in on LSAT prep. Hello and welcome to episode 550 of the Thinking Elset podcast. I'm Nathan Fox. With me |
| 0:32.2 | is Ben Olson. We are the co-founders of LSATDemon.com and the ElSat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to start today with an email from Alyssa who says she is randomly doing bad on |
| 0:44.2 | LR. |
| 0:46.5 | Hi, Nathan and Ben. |
| 0:47.8 | I've been studying for the LSAT for around seven months now and I've noticed very good |
| 0:51.8 | improvement in my practice sections. I'll usually get four to five |
| 0:56.7 | wrong. However, there are always random times that I'll practice and get nine to ten wrong. Sometimes |
| 1:02.8 | I'll get four to five wrong for a week straight and then get nine to ten wrong the next day or for |
| 1:09.1 | two days in a row, then get back to four to five wrong. |
| 1:12.9 | It's really weird because the sections could be around the same difficulty, and there is no |
| 1:17.7 | particular question type that I'm getting wrong. Why does this happen? I understand variance is normal, |
| 1:24.5 | but it seems like a big gap. Do I take a break for like a week and then go back? I don't |
| 1:30.6 | notice myself rushing or doing anything different when I do worse, but I also don't want to keep |
| 1:35.1 | burning the material doing badly and making random mistakes. Any advice would be appreciated. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm not sure if Alyssa is talking about number of wrong answers on questions attempted |
| 1:47.2 | or number of wrong answers in the section. |
| 1:50.3 | Let's start there. |
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