LSAT Demon Daily

Josh is joined again by Abhi and Aaminah, co-hosts of Crushing 1L, to talk about how skills needed to succeed on the LSAT are the same skills needed to succeed in law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh is joined by Abhi and Aaminah, co-hosts of Crushing 1L, to discuss how applicants should go about choosing which law school they will ultimately attend.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate tell a listener who recently obtained accommodations that her extra time shouldn't change how she approaches the test.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben tell a listener it's perfectly fine to take a break from LSAT study, especially to help prevent burnout.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate counsel a listener who's put herself on a timeline and ramped up the pressure for the April test.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

LSAT Demon Teacher Abhi and Demon Veteran Liaison Damon correct a prior Demon Daily episode and take a deeper dive on the Yellow Ribbon Program for veterans attending law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!Use the VA's Yellow Ribbon search tool: https://www.va.gov/education/yellow-ribbon-participating-schools/Find our prior episode on Yellow Ribbon here.

Ben and Nate talk a listener through how to reframe her approach to Reading Comprehension questions, sections, and review.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben counsel a listener wondering about the purpose of drilling.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate discuss how the Demon prevents repeated questions, and what to do if you feel like you're studying familiar questions.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben give advice to a student seeking to finish undergrad in three years and immediately going to law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!Read the Vanderbilt Law Review article referenced in this episode: On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession

Ben and Nate walk a listener through how to bring her meditation practice from LSAT study to the official test.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Kate is considering a pivot from a career in journalism to law school. Josh and Nate tell her to proceed with caution and understand what she's getting into.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh tell a student who's learning the power of prioritizing accuracy over speed on the LSAT one "weird trick" to keep improving: slow way down.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh counsel a student wondering how high of a score he should shoot for.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh and Nate advise a listener to hold off on taking the official LSAT until he's 100% ready and not putting the weight of the world on one attempt.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh and Nate discuss what makes for a successful prediction on the LSAT.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate tell listener Kate to consider taking a gap year and getting work experience before deciding whether to go to law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben talk listener Anna through her anxiety about never knowing which answers she missed on the official LSAT.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate run through a few best practices for how to proceed after a cold diagnostic.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate break down how to decide which LSAT Demon live class is right for you.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Elif is early in undergrad and unsure if law school is for her based on her LSAT study so far. Ben and Nate tell her to slow down, focus on grades first, then crush the LSAT.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Anna sometimes finds herself hating all the answer choices on LSAT questions. Ben and Nate tell her she's on the right path. Narrowing down to zero answers and reconsidering some is better than narrowing down to a 50/50.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Students on the Ask Button have been worrying about picking an answer choice that's "too strong" on Strengthen or Sufficient Assumption questions. Nate and Josh advise students to forget answer strength and focus on understanding what the question is asking.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Demon student Thierno shares how disciplined study and balancing drilling with timed sections and tests took him from a 157 to a 173.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh advise a splitter against explaining a bad GPA in an addendum.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh and Nate read a class review that shows how predicting the answer is an LSAT superpower.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

A high diagnostic scorer writes in wondering how to structure her study time. Josh and Nate tell her to slow down and not give the test too much respect.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

LSAT Demon Teacher Abhi, Demon Veteran Liaison Damon, and former Demon student Anita, all veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces, discuss best practices for veterans transitioning from the military to the law school admissions process.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

A struggling 1L writes in seeking advice. Ben and Nate encourage him to be honest with himself about what he wants out of law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate quickly run through the differences between undergraduate, institutional GPA and LSAC GPA for law school applications.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener German writes in with a dubious RC strategy that worked for his friend. Ben and Nate discuss.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Addison wants permission to break Demon protocol and do passage four before passage three on RC if it has more questions. Nate and Josh discuss the cons of this strategy.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh encourage listener Jennifer, a legal assistant, to push for her best possible LSAT score and reach her potential.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh and Nate read some student feedback on Josh's former RC Prediction Fundamentals class.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate walk through how to approach unfamiliar words on the LSAT.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

A listener writes in looking to use law school as an exit from sales. Ben and Nate caution him that law often isn't as lucrative as people think.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben break down how the Yellow Ribbon Program works for veterans looking at going to law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Juli is worried about her stamina on the LSAT. Nate and Josh tell her to forget about stamina or endurance, attempt fewer questions, and focus on getting those questions right.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh give a listener advice on how to make the most out of a commute to law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh and Nate give some advice to a former D1 athlete on rehabilitating a less-than-stellar GPA.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Samantha is curious about Jacksonville University's provisionally accredited law school. Josh and Nate break it down.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh go over how students should approach answer choices in LR after they've made a strong prediction.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

With the January LSAT starting tomorrow, Nate and Josh tell listeners what they should be doing in the days leading up to the test.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate give an overview of how to review LSAT mistakes effectively.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben weigh in on advice from a pre-law adviser: Don't apply to law school with a GPA lower than 3.6.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Ben and Nate counsel listener Peter, a former engineering major, on how his STEM background can serve his law school dreams.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

To ring in the new year, Ben and Nate give their take on New Year's resolutions for LSAT students.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Ben help a listener decide between two law schools and warn him of the risk of choosing a sub-par school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Listener Larissa is struggling with switching from drilling to timed sections. Ben and Nate give her one of the oldest pieces of Demon advice: Ignore the clock, and treat timed practice the same as drilling.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Josh and Nate react to a Reddit post with a rare pearl of wisdom: Read the argument first.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!

Nate and Josh give their thoughts on a list of "tips" for getting into law school.Read more on our website. Email daily@lsatdemon.com with questions or comments. Watch this episode on YouTube!