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Tips To Be Followed For the Beginning of the Semester at Law School

published July 30, 2013

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  1. CREATE A SENSIBLE EXAM SCHEDULE

    Although first-year students have few scheduling choices, at most law schools, second- and third-year students have considerable choice in choosing classes. When faced with such choices, you should undoubtedly choose courses and professors that seem interesting and relevant to your future career choices. However, you should also keep your examination schedule in mind when you choose your classes.


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    Most law schools have mechanisms in place to ensure that students do not register for multiple classes that have exams scheduled for the same time. Beyond that, you may also want to think long and hard about choosing two courses that have in-class exams scheduled on the same day. Trying to keep straight the detailed rules of evidence in the morning when you have spent the previous evening studying for your afternoon tax exam may lead to suboptimal performance in both subjects. Scheduling your classes so that you have at least one night between each in-class exam should leave ample time to review for each subject, especially if you have worked to prepare yourself throughout the semester.

    Many law students would also advise against scheduling one-day take-home exams on successive days. Although such scheduling would generally leave you with an evening during which to review for the second exam, the amount of energy spent in working on the first exam for an entire eight-hour (or perhaps 10-hour) period may deplete your energy for an exam the next day.
     
  2. REVIEW YOUR PROFESSOR'S OLD EXAMS AND SAMPLE ANSWERS

    Although changes in the state of the law in a given area or in a professor's research interests can alter the substance of questions that a professor will ask from semester to semester, most professors ask the same type of questions repeatedly. Knowing early in the semester that your professor likes to ask policy questions (i.e., questions that ask you to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of various legal doctrines) may lead you to focus less on the individual cases that you study during the semester and more on the commentary that is offered in each section of your casebook. Conversely, if you know your professor prefers issue spotters, you may want to concentrate throughout the semester on remembering general legal rules and case names so you will be prepared to resolve fine differences among cases. Finally, an early look at exams is valuable because it may enable you to determine whether your exam is likely to encompass all course topics or cover only a few areas in depth.

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  3. ASSESS THE AVAILABILITY OF STUDY AIDS TO HELP YOU MASTER THE COURSE MATERIAL

    From the day you arrive on campus for your first semester of law school, you will hear discussions about student outlines, commercial outlines, hornbooks, treatises, mini-treatises, case briefs, audio reviews, video reviews, and various other study aids. Students typically have one of two reactions to these materials. Some students immediately purchase as many of them as they can afford, thinking that the more materials they buy, the more information they will learn and the better they will perform on exams. Three months later, when they start their most serious exam preparation, many of these students will open their study aids for the very first time and determine that they simply don't have enough time to use the study aids effectively. Hence, these study aids will sit unused on the bookshelf or be resold to other students in a later semester.

    Whatever commercial outline you purchase, be sure to use it diligently. Also, don't freak out and buy each one on the market. Although you might strengthen the economy, it will only take too much of your valuable and scarce time to read each one. Find one that follows your casebook or purchase a general one applicable to the entire subject.

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