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Tips for the Final Weeks of the Semester at Law School

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  1. ORGANIZE YOUR VARIOUS NOTES AND STUDY AIDS.

    One common panic expressed by law students at the end of the semester is that they have accumulated so much information for each course that they do not know where to start. You should bear this in mind as you approach the end of the semester in each of your classes. Organize all class notes, reading notes, handouts, and pertinent information from any extra study aids by topic or by date. Having all relevant materials together will enable you to easily cross-reference your various sources as you review individual topics in a course.


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    Going one step further, you might want to consider outlining the information you have accumulated for each course. You might choose to outline the whole course yourself, or to split the course into sections with members of your study group or with other class members. The advantage of doing the outline yourself is that you will review all sections of the course while you create the outline, and you will be able to include what you perceive to be the most important information in your own words. On the other hand, group outlines will require less of your time, which you can then spend reviewing other important materials.
  2. MAKE YOUR OUTLINE READABLE, NOT A MASTERPIECE.

    Many students perceive the outline as a work of art in and of itself and strive to create something that is both thorough enough and "pretty" enough that they would be comfortable turning it in for a grade. Being such a perfectionist is both stressful and unnecessary. An outline should serve as a reference tool that enables you to remember what you read and what you heard in class without referring back to the casebook or to your notes. In many cases, the shorter the outline, the better. Being able to condense a week's worth of course materials into one page of an outline probably shows that you can remember how the week's materials fit together, which is far more important than the tiny details of each day and each case. Moreover, the shorter you make the outline, the easier it will be to find points that you want to look for on a test.
     
  3. WORK THROUGH OLD EXAMS WITH CLASSMATES.

    As mentioned by every professor or expert, working through old exams is one of the best ways to review for your exams, especially in the final days. Not only does working through the exams give you a sense of the types of questions that your professor is likely to ask and of the time constraints involved in answering the questions, it also can guide you in thinking about and reviewing many of the topics you discussed in your course.

    Review the exams with other classmates, especially if the professor does not provide sample answers. Other students will spot and consider points that you might have missed. After discussing these points with your fellow classmates, you probably won't miss these key issues when it counts.

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    Also, when completing old exams, practice under timed conditions. You don't want to be surprised on the day of the exam when the proctor calls time. By practicing with time constraints, you will figure out just how much time you can spend spotting issues, outlining, and writing on the various parts of your professor's old exams.
     
  4. TRY TO GET THE ENTIRE COURSE DOWN INTO ONE PAGE.

    On the day before the exam, some students find it helpful to boil the entire course down into one page. For example, Contracts may be condensed into a series of questions with some bullet points. The major questions might include: Was there a contract? Was there a breach? What are the potential remedies? The point of this exercise is to rise above the trees, so that you can see the forest. Professors will be more lenient if they think you get the "big picture" on an exam, even if you miss some key issues; they will not be so conciliatory if you spend the majority of your test time in the weeds, citing facts from irrelevant cases.
     
  5. SET REALISTIC GOALS.

    As you plan how to spend those last few weeks or last few days of the semester, set realistic goals. Although it is important to put a lot of preparation into your exams, it is also important to be realistic about what you can accomplish in your final push. If you have followed some of the suggestions above, you probably have prepared yourself well for your exams throughout the semester. Treat the last few days leading up to your exams as an opportunity to review what you have already studied, rather than a furious push to learn a lot of information that you did not master during the semester. To that end, do not try to do too much. Your exams, because of the time constraints involved with in-class exams and because of the extended period of time during which you must concentrate on take-home exams, are almost as much an endurance test as they are a test of legal knowledge. Remember to sleep and to eat healthfully during the days leading up to exams so that you will be as alert as possible. Trying to cram in an extra few hours of studying at the expense of a decent night's sleep might seem like a good idea while you are doing it, but not such a great idea when you are thinking about how badly you want to nap during your Civil Procedure take-home.

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