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I was darn sure about what I wrote before I wrote it.
Great advice whether you’re using keyboard and screen or pencil and paper. (Laura Bergus writing for Lawyerist)
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A four hour exam sounds long, but it wasn’t really all that bad. My stamina [the amount of time I can study/focus] has increased dramatically over the course of the semester. It was just a normal stretch of thinking/study time.
This is one of the more important reasons you do all that studying all semester long, so thinking for that long in an exam is second nature. (HATE is easy…love takes COURAGE)

What Makes a Good Exam Answer?

Just take all the advice and write a deeply rigorous poem that answers the question in an evaluative manner while getting to maybe and going beyond telling what the law is but also never forget to remain honest and perceptive.

Solid gold.

What Makes a Good Law School Exam Answer? Law Profs Weigh In - Law Blog - WSJ

Pls Hndle Thx: Pass/Fail or EPIC FAIL? - Above the Law

Point/counterpoint on the virtues of taking bar classes pass/fail. Word to the wise: if Law and Literature isn’t a writing course, stay away.

Sí se puede – or – A [theoretical] Guide to Surviving Finals « HATE is easy…love takes COURAGE

Any finals post that includes Fight Club rules is my kind of finals post.

What Happens if a Law Professor Loses Your Exam? - The Blawgraphy

Luke’s post is an extension of a couple quotes from ATL’s exam post I linked to above, focusing on a story about how Bill Clinton lost an entire Con Law class’s exams.

Luke is right though: if you write on a laptop, the exam software generates and distributes so many copies that it would take a 2012-level natural disaster to destroy all of them. At that point, I hope you still aren’t worried about your Torts grade.

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Law School Exams - Above the Law

Required reading for law students. Great tips and even better insight to the mind of law professors as they craft and grade exams. Bottom line: professors are not out to screw you, even though people like me tried to sell themselves that lie as motivation.

chrisdwoo: notulysses: My current wallpaper. <3 OH MY. Law students are returning to school all across the country and starting to buckle down for the home stretch. It’s go time.

chrisdwoo:

notulysses:

My current wallpaper. <3

OH MY.

Law students are returning to school all across the country and starting to buckle down for the home stretch.

It’s go time.