AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT ARE LAW SCHOOL EXAMS LIKE

1. Downloaded from: justpaste.it/2kcvf AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT ARE LAW SCHOOL EXAMS LIKE; We can debate over anything else in academia that you consider hard. But there is no argument over what are law school exams like. Just pain simple word- Hard! Taking a law school exam is basically like entering a gladiatorial combat with around 100 or so people that are as much motivated, bright and talented as you and also just like you, are looking for that one tiny edge on which they can do well in the test ad better than others. In law school, there are no enemies of you, just the “good grades”. Your enemy is that curve which forces you to compete with your classmates, for good grades. A law school exam can be seen as an inflexible bell curve where there must be high grades and low grades! The curve is so stiff that even if everyone turned in equally great answers, there still has to be winners and losers. Why Are Law School Exams So Terrifying? To answer that question, let’s first of all look at the structure and that makes up a typical law school exam. Starting with the most typical exam question, the issue-spotter. This type of question makes the bulk of most exams. An issue spotter typically one or more questions that contain fact patterns. The fact pattern is a description of hypothetical events that might have legal consequences. Exams also usually contain a Policy question. The policy question makes you focus on your ability to make a persuasive argument. These are often based on the theoretical discussion you have had in a class. Also, in some rare cases, you might also be getting some multiple-choice questions on a law school exam. But make no mistake, these aren’t like any other MCQs you see in other papers you’ve ever had. They can be seriously diabolical. What should you do to study for a Law School exam? The approach varies from person to person. But the most basic approach is to refer to study guides for law students and to do some sort of outlining. Where they compile the class notes and what is called a “black letter law” i.e. the statements of what the law is, and often about the actual holdings of the cases into an outline, easily organized by topic. Some students also study by re-reading the significant number of cases and also consult various outlines and supplements that may vary in length and depth but usually attempt to describe the black letter law for students such that they need to spend less time on reading that and spend more time on reading the fuzzier stuff. According to Flemming’s fundamentals of law, a lot of students depend or take help from their exam writing courses as they present the material that you might see in the exams. Lastly, we would like to say that law school exams travel in packs! One of them alone you might be able to manage, but you are fortunate enough that way. In such cases, budgeting your time can be the best help you can do for yourself.