+1. I want to drink enough to forget my name after my torts final. Holy God. I'm just so exhausted.fathergoose wrote:It has to be better than the other four we had. It just seems like my life has been one long library session since we got our memo in November. I just want to get through torts and then move into the bar.Holly Golightly wrote:Eff torts.
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uci2013 wrote:Wow that would be against our honor code I think. Cool if your school allows that. Basic fill in the blanks, or at least pre-written rule explanations would have been nice.goosey wrote:how many things is too much to have with you on test day...this is what im looking at right now
7. a 60 pg document of pre-written answers [will get binding or ill go crazy]
your school doesnt allow you to write out the rules in paragraph form? how would that be any different than an outline with good grammar?
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I miss the naive days of september when I thought this was going to be a breeze. It may be hard for everyone else but it was going to be easy for me. I was different.as stars burn wrote:+1. I want to drink enough to forget my name after my torts final. Holy God. I'm just so exhausted.
I want to go punch that guy in the nuts.
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+1fathergoose wrote:I miss the naive days of september when I thought this was going to be a breeze. It may be hard for everyone else but it was going to be easy for me. I was different.as stars burn wrote:+1. I want to drink enough to forget my name after my torts final. Holy God. I'm just so exhausted.
"as long as I do the work all semester..."
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Ravens win! Back to studying now. . .
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Why doesn't someone just tell us at the beginning of a semester, find the best 2L outline for the same professor that you can, eat sleep and drink that outline for three months, know it inside out and backwards, and then just do every practice exam from your prof you can physically get your hands on.goosey wrote:"as long as I do the work all semester..."
Oh and if you have time, read for class.
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Houston snatches defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. At least Foster got enough points for me to win my FF playoff game.kxz wrote:Ravens win! Back to studying now. . .
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That is EXACTLY what I plan on doing after my Torts final.as stars burn wrote:+1. I want to drink enough to forget my name after my torts final. Holy God. I'm just so exhausted.fathergoose wrote:It has to be better than the other four we had. It just seems like my life has been one long library session since we got our memo in November. I just want to get through torts and then move into the bar.Holly Golightly wrote:Eff torts.
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I think I disagree with that.fathergoose wrote:Why doesn't someone just tell us at the beginning of a semester, find the best 2L outline for the same professor that you can, eat sleep and drink that outline for three months, know it inside out and backwards, and then just do every practice exam from your prof you can physically get your hands on.goosey wrote:"as long as I do the work all semester..."
Oh and if you have time, read for class.
I am REALLY glad I did everything I did all semester, but I was caught off-gaurd with how difficult finals time is, despite all that work.
I dont even want to imagine what it would have been like without all that work. And its hard to know what the best outline is for the class without knowing whats correct/incorrect, which you cant at the beginning of the semester. I had 3 outlines from my torts professor...and all 3 had blatant errors on them in one place or another. I would never trust somebody else's outlines
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Interesting. I guess I was lucky. Got a hold of great outlines early in the semester. I certainly did all the readings from the casebooks and supplements, edited the outlines as I saw fit, but I did it on my time frame and in big chunks so I could see the big picture. I tried recover the readings to be prepared for class but that went out the window in October.
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4 hour finals make my ass hurt. I can't decide if that's because the chair was uncomfortable or because I was violated.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
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FTMFWkalvano wrote:4 hour finals make my ass hurt. I can't decide if that's because the chair was uncomfortable or because I was violated.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
I thought I was just having a really intense moment of deja vu. He barely changed anything.
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fathergoose wrote:FTMFWkalvano wrote:4 hour finals make my ass hurt. I can't decide if that's because the chair was uncomfortable or because I was violated.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
I thought I was just having a really intense moment of deja vu. He barely changed anything.
they actually do this???
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I think reading the cases actually really helped me apply rules to a factual situation. I don't think I would have understood everything if I had just worked from an outline/E&E.fathergoose wrote:Why doesn't someone just tell us at the beginning of a semester, find the best 2L outline for the same professor that you can, eat sleep and drink that outline for three months, know it inside out and backwards, and then just do every practice exam from your prof you can physically get your hands on.goosey wrote:"as long as I do the work all semester..."
Oh and if you have time, read for class.
I didn't waste time briefing, but reading the casebook really a) helped me memorize the rules, and b) helped me put them into context.
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I didn't notice until the guy called 10 minutes, and I had a "oh wait" moment. Grabbed that book and started throwing in some extra "howevers". Too bad all the questions weren't pulled directly like that.fathergoose wrote:FTMFWkalvano wrote:4 hour finals make my ass hurt. I can't decide if that's because the chair was uncomfortable or because I was violated.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
I thought I was just having a really intense moment of deja vu. He barely changed anything.
I know I completely got destroyed by the "implied promise" question. Aside from that, cautiously optimistic about my "B".
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goosey wrote:fathergoose wrote:FTMFWkalvano wrote:4 hour finals make my ass hurt. I can't decide if that's because the chair was uncomfortable or because I was violated.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
I thought I was just having a really intense moment of deja vu. He barely changed anything.
they actually do this???
Damn near word for word. Only changed the party's names and a couple of points.
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To be fair it was a 6 essay 4 hour exam and I think he just threw it in as a freebie to all the students who actually went through the old exams.goosey wrote:they actually do this???
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Reading the cases is beneficial because professors are lazy and tend to pull facts directly from cases. Especially in multiple choice.JCougar wrote:I think reading the cases actually really helped me apply rules to a factual situation. I don't think I would have understood everything if I had just worked from an outline/E&E.fathergoose wrote:Why doesn't someone just tell us at the beginning of a semester, find the best 2L outline for the same professor that you can, eat sleep and drink that outline for three months, know it inside out and backwards, and then just do every practice exam from your prof you can physically get your hands on.goosey wrote:"as long as I do the work all semester..."
Oh and if you have time, read for class.
I didn't waste time briefing, but reading the casebook really a) helped me memorize the rules, and b) helped me put them into context.
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http://abovethelaw.com/2009/12/visiting ... acts-exam/goosey wrote:fathergoose wrote:FTMFWkalvano wrote:4 hour finals make my ass hurt. I can't decide if that's because the chair was uncomfortable or because I was violated.
However, praise be to the prof who plagiarizes his own past exams and provides you with model answers that you were allowed to take into the test.
I thought I was just having a really intense moment of deja vu. He barely changed anything.
they actually do this???
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Ah that was the one I skipped and kept for the end. I just danced around actually answering it and just threw all the canned rules I had it hoping to pick up some low hanging partial credit.kalvano wrote:I didn't notice until the guy called 10 minutes, and I had a "oh wait" moment. Grabbed that book and started throwing in some extra "howevers". Too bad all the questions weren't pulled directly like that.
I know I completely got destroyed by the "implied promise" question. Aside from that, cautiously optimistic about my "B".
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Did you catch question 2, I think it was, the toaster ad? And how it had an imprint of the guys signature in the ad?fathergoose wrote:To be fair it was a 6 essay 4 hour exam and I think he just threw it in as a freebie to all the students who actually went through the old exams.goosey wrote:they actually do this???
That made me lol when I realized my sweet little RS 46 analysis didn't mean shit.
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Not trying to be a bitch, genuinely curious: is a B a good grade at your school?kalvano wrote: I didn't notice until the guy called 10 minutes, and I had a "oh wait" moment. Grabbed that book and started throwing in some extra "howevers". Too bad all the questions weren't pulled directly like that.
I know I completely got destroyed by the "implied promise" question. Aside from that, cautiously optimistic about my "B".
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I saw quite a few fact patterns that either completely or nearly matched up with the cases we read. One of them was kind of tricky, though, because the situation was exactly the same as one of our cases, but the facts were changed around just enough so that a totally different rule applied.kalvano wrote:Reading the cases is beneficial because professors are lazy and tend to pull facts directly from cases. Especially in multiple choice.JCougar wrote:I think reading the cases actually really helped me apply rules to a factual situation. I don't think I would have understood everything if I had just worked from an outline/E&E.fathergoose wrote:Why doesn't someone just tell us at the beginning of a semester, find the best 2L outline for the same professor that you can, eat sleep and drink that outline for three months, know it inside out and backwards, and then just do every practice exam from your prof you can physically get your hands on.goosey wrote:"as long as I do the work all semester..."
Oh and if you have time, read for class.
I didn't waste time briefing, but reading the casebook really a) helped me memorize the rules, and b) helped me put them into context.
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Holly Golightly wrote:Not trying to be a bitch, genuinely curious: is a B a good grade at your school?kalvano wrote: I didn't notice until the guy called 10 minutes, and I had a "oh wait" moment. Grabbed that book and started throwing in some extra "howevers". Too bad all the questions weren't pulled directly like that.
I know I completely got destroyed by the "implied promise" question. Aside from that, cautiously optimistic about my "B".
yeah, B is below median at my school. a B would make me /self
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It's a "B" curve, I believe. But a pretty hard one...I don't think they give out many "A"s. I might be mistaken as I haven't paid much attention to the curve and such. I figure worrying about it won't help me study or change the grades I get.Holly Golightly wrote:Not trying to be a bitch, genuinely curious: is a B a good grade at your school?kalvano wrote: I didn't notice until the guy called 10 minutes, and I had a "oh wait" moment. Grabbed that book and started throwing in some extra "howevers". Too bad all the questions weren't pulled directly like that.
I know I completely got destroyed by the "implied promise" question. Aside from that, cautiously optimistic about my "B".
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