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LSAT Unplugged + Law School Admissions Podcast
Hosted by Steve Schwartz · EN
Steve Schwartz of LSAT Unplugged created this podcast to help you with the LSAT and law school admission process. He started teaching the LSAT after scoring a 152 and gradually working his way up to a 175 (it took over a year!). Please (1) subscribe, (2) rate + review, and (3) email me your questions: podcast@lsatunplugged.com
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These Law Schools Are Quietly Failing
2w ago00:13:31Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson: https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com
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Why a 170 Isn't Safe for Law School Anymore
2w ago00:11:19Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://swiy.co/wM-LWW_P6DA I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://swiy.co/wM-LWW_P6DA-1 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://swiy.co/wM-LWW_P6DA-2
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165 to 175: The Last 10 Points on the LSAT
2w ago00:22:38Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com A 165 puts you ahead of about 90% of everyone who takes the LSAT, and it's still not the score that changes your options. The stuff that got you to 165 stops working past a certain point, so this is the exact system top scorers use to find the last 10: the micro audit, the weekly data autopsy, explanation independence, and 3 students who broke through. CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Gap: 165 vs 175 01:39 The Micro Audit 06:11 Pattern Drills + the Weekly Data Autopsy 11:59 Whose Explanations Are You Using? 13:46 The Receipts: 3 Student Case Studies 17:38 The Rebuild + Becoming the Operator
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How to Destroy LSAT Reading Comprehension
3w ago00:27:02Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com Reading comp is a third of your LSAT score, and most people lose points on it for 1 reason: nobody ever taught them that reading on this test is a different skill than the reading they've done their whole life. This is the complete system in 1 video, the reframe, the skeleton method, the 5 question types, the 3 answer traps, the timing fix, and the drill that proves you actually understood the passage. CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Reframe: Read Like a Lawyer 04:41 Read Less, Score More 07:41 The Passage Skeleton 11:19 The 5 Question Types 17:35 The 3 Wrong-Answer Traps 21:12 The Timing Fix 25:43 Prove You Actually Understood It
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Why Smart People Bomb LSAT Logical Reasoning
3w ago00:30:25Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://swiy.co/Vke-E5eLuw8 I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://swiy.co/Vke-E5eLuw8-1 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://swiy.co/Vke-E5eLuw8-2 Logical Reasoning is 2 of your 3 scored LSAT sections, so if you're blanking on arguments or stuck between two answers that both look right, your score isn't moving. This is the whole system: the reframe, the 3-step reading method, how to attack the 2 reasoning patterns top scorers hit on sight, the 5 answer traps, the time bank, and the review routine that separates the 150s from the 170s. CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Reframe: What LR Actually Tests 05:07 How to Read Any Argument (the 3-step method) 08:54 Attack Causal Reasoning 12:54 Parallel Reasoning (match the skeleton) 17:46 The 5 Wrong-Answer Traps 22:04 Build a Time Bank 23:57 When Your Brain Freezes 27:05 Practice Smarter (the review routine)
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The 2 Words That Decide Your LSAT Score
3w ago00:37:06Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com One mix-up between necessary and sufficient assumption questions quietly bleeds Logical Reasoning points, and those 2 words decide more of your score than almost anything else in LR. This settles the difference for good: the definitions, where the points actually are, the planted trap, the negation test run with precision, the sufficient-assumption method step by step, and a 30-minute daily drill. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Two Words That Decide Your Score 00:34 The Mix-Up That Steals Points 05:41 Read the Stem, Then the Definitions 09:40 Strategy: Where the Points Actually Are 17:36 The Planted Trap 20:48 Why the Negation Test Works, and How to Run It 21:41 Negate Like a Lawyer, Not a Pessimist 24:29 Sufficient Assumptions, Step by Step 30:15 Your Instincts Are the Trap 33:22 The 30-Minute Daily Drill
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Why You're Stuck in the 150s on the LSAT
3w ago00:24:05Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com More people are stuck in the 150s than anywhere else on the LSAT scale, and almost everyone there is working hard, so your effort was never the problem. Something in your prep is leaking. This is the full escape plan: the 3 traps eating your study hours, the practice system that actually compounds, the move for when you're down to 2 answers, the wall at 165, and 2 students who ran the plan. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Where Your Hours Actually Go (the 3 traps) 05:20 The System That Compounds 10:22 The 50/50 Trap (down to 2 answers) 16:45 The Wall at 165 (fewer questions, better answers) 20:11 Proof: 2 Students Who Ran the Plan
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How the LSAT Actually Works
3w ago00:20:17Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com One score decides where you get into law school and how much you pay for it: this is Lesson 1 of the free law school course, on how the LSAT actually works. 00:00 The 2026 money reset: tuition is priced on what you can pay 02:19 Your LSAT score is the lever 04:06 Your score beats your locked GPA 05:41 The format now, plus what changes in August 2026 09:41 The writing sample law schools actually read 15:30 How to study from day 1
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165 to 175: The Last 10 Points on the LSAT
3w ago00:22:38Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://unpluggedprep.com/cheatsheet I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://unpluggedprep.com/start 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://lsatunplugged.com The stuff that got you to 165 stops working. More practice tests, more hours, more explanations, past a certain level, more makes you worse. This is the complete system top scorers use to find the last 10 points: the micro audit that catches points you're losing on questions you got right, the weekly autopsy that kills repeat mistakes for good, the review habit that had me write over 1,000 explanations by hand, and 3 students who broke through from exactly where you're stuck now. I've been coaching the LSAT since 2005, and I scored a 175 myself after a year stuck in the low 150s. Chapters: 00:00 The Gap: what separates a 165 from a 175 01:39 The Micro Audit: points you lose on right answers 06:11 Pattern Drills + the Weekly Data Autopsy 11:59 Whose Explanations Are You Using? 13:46 The Receipts: 3 student case studies 17:38 The Rebuild + Becoming the Operator
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Why You Keep Running Out of Time on the LSAT
3w ago00:21:43Tap to summarizeDownload your free LSAT cheat sheet here: https://swiy.co/CJjVgBZiObw I scored a 152 my first LSAT. Got to a 175. I've been teaching this test since 2005. If you're prelaw, applying now, or stuck, you're in the right place. 🎯 Free LSAT tutoring lesson https://swiy.co/CJjVgBZiObw-1 📚 LSAT Unplugged courses and coaching https://swiy.co/CJjVgBZiObw-2 Running out of time on the LSAT almost never gets fixed by reading faster; this masterclass shows where your 35 minutes actually leak and how to spend them where they score: the reframe, the front-10 time bank, the exact moment to bail on a question, confidence triage, reading comp structure, passage order, and the 4th-section fade. 0:00 You don't have a timing problem (the reframe) 4:01 Logical reasoning: the front-10 time bank 5:25 When to bail: flag and move 9:05 Triage by confidence, not question number 13:17 Why reading faster lowers your reading comp score 14:32 Reading comp: read for structure 18:39 Pick your passage order 19:17 Beat the 4th-section fade
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