Zealous Proctors, Could’ve Been Worse Flaw, and Feral Cats (Ep. 313)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Nathan and Ben kick off this week’s episode with a logical reasoning question and explain their two-step strategy for identifying a flaw. They hear from an August LSAT taker about an overly officious proctor. Then, they evaluate four more personal statements. It’s the time of year when many students are getting their law school applications ready and asking for advice. Today’s featured statements are better written than most but still lacking in relevant content. Spoiler: Law schools probably don’t want to hear a story about feral cats. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains bad language. Not bad at language, like Trump's lawyers. Bad language, like naughty words. Cover your ears, I guess. Hello and welcome to episode 313 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast. today on the show, we had a logical reasoning question. |
| 0:27.6 | We had, it was a flaw question. |
| 0:31.5 | We had an email with some updates about Proctor U issues on the most recent |
| 0:38.4 | Security protocols. We had a a but overly officious, |
| 0:45.9 | overly officious, Procter, you Procter. |
| 0:48.9 | What's that name? |
| 0:50.6 | Studious? |
| 0:51.6 | No, officious, like wanting to officiate. You know, kind of good, well, |
| 0:58.0 | yeah. Officious, yeah. Going out of their way to exercise what limited power they have every once in a while you're just going to get a proctor who |
| 1:07.2 | Considers themselves to be part of the you know national security |
| 1:12.0 | Council. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, like, they, you know, you know the type. |
| 1:17.0 | The hotel security guard who couldn't quite qualify to be a cop, |
| 1:22.0 | but wants to be a cop, and is just going to get up your |
| 1:26.0 | ass for nothing? That type of person. They're out there, and some of them work for Proctor |
| 1:31.6 | You. Anyway, then we did a whole bunch of personal statements. |
| 1:35.0 | We did four more personal statements. |
| 1:37.0 | Overall, I would say the personal statements were better written on average than the ones we've done recently on the show. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.6 | Like they were all in the B-plus range writing wise. |
| 1:51.1 | Yeah, style-wise. Content. writing wise. |
| 1:53.0 | Style wise. |
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