It's a beautiful time of year for law students: end of semester exams are over and thank goodness because the way some law students take the exams is so ridiculous and annoying it's enough to make me want to go crazy in the exam room.
Let me quickly explain how law school exams work--at least at my school. In law school, your only exam for the class is at the end of the semester. So you're tested on 15-ish weeks worth of material. If the test is open book, you can bring in anything: your outlines, commercial outlines, the book, hornbooks, etc... Some professors limit the materials you can bring in and some make the tests closed book. The tests are around 2-3 hours long. At my school, we are not allowed to use the internet or anything saved on our hard drives.
I absolutely hate the completely open book exams. People bring in libraries of material, as though they think they'll have time to look every thing up and they'll find the answer somewhere. Guess what people--the professor is testing you on what he or she taught you during the semester, not what is on page 245 of the Examples and Explanations book. It's a test of what you know, not a scavenger hunt. I don't want to hear you frantically flipping through the books for the answer.
Because people bring in about seventy thousand books and outlines for the exams, they also bring in ridiculous props. For example, take a look at this picture my BooBear Joe took during one of his exams.
Let me quickly explain how law school exams work--at least at my school. In law school, your only exam for the class is at the end of the semester. So you're tested on 15-ish weeks worth of material. If the test is open book, you can bring in anything: your outlines, commercial outlines, the book, hornbooks, etc... Some professors limit the materials you can bring in and some make the tests closed book. The tests are around 2-3 hours long. At my school, we are not allowed to use the internet or anything saved on our hard drives.
I absolutely hate the completely open book exams. People bring in libraries of material, as though they think they'll have time to look every thing up and they'll find the answer somewhere. Guess what people--the professor is testing you on what he or she taught you during the semester, not what is on page 245 of the Examples and Explanations book. It's a test of what you know, not a scavenger hunt. I don't want to hear you frantically flipping through the books for the answer.
Because people bring in about seventy thousand books and outlines for the exams, they also bring in ridiculous props. For example, take a look at this picture my BooBear Joe took during one of his exams.
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| The student sitting at this desk was away getting coffee, water and an energy drink. Because that will help too... |
I'm about to drop some knowledge on you law students. All the extra books, all the props, all the headphones/earphones/pencils/highlighting in different colors, etc... are not the key to doing well in law school. That's not going to do the trick. Here's a hint: do the reading, take notes, and go to class and amazingly enough, you'll have all the info you need for exams. It's much easier than you think.
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