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I am seeking calm advice about how to study comprehensively for a law school exam (Trademarks & Unfair Competition) at the last minute (i.e., I will be able to allot two days to studying).

A discouraging situation to be in, but I have to make the best of it.

During the semester, I did most of the reading and participated in class. But I have not ever reviewed any of the material or made an outline. I do not have good classroom notes.

How can I make the best of my limited time?

Geat27 wrote:I am seeking calm advice about how to study comprehensively for a law school exam (Trademarks & Unfair Competition) at the last minute (i.e., I will be able to allot two days to studying).

A discouraging situation to be in, but I have to make the best of it.

During the semester, I did most of the reading and participated in class. But I have not ever reviewed any of the material or made an outline. I do not have good classroom notes.

How can I make the best of my limited time?

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Christ. That's what you do _after_ the exam, after you've made the best of it. But I appreciate the suggestion.

I put off crim until the last minute. Reading past exams, spending a bit of time thinking about them, then reading the model answers seems to be helping the concepts gel in my mind. That won't be comprehensive, but I suppose there isn't much time to be thorough at this point.

The best thing you can do is the following:

1) Go through an outline prepared by a former student, find out what's important.
2) Make your own outline, a "mini outline". Just put in the main elements of each rule and thats it.
3) Do a lot of practice exams.

You can get a B or something that way IMO. I mean that is what I would do.

Geat27 wrote:I am seeking calm advice about how to study comprehensively for a law school exam (Trademarks & Unfair Competition) at the last minute (i.e., I will be able to allot two days to studying).

A discouraging situation to be in, but I have to make the best of it.

During the semester, I did most of the reading and participated in class. But I have not ever reviewed any of the material or made an outline. I do not have good classroom notes.

How can I make the best of my limited time?

Some of the Barbri review lectures are really good (Civ Pro, Property), although Torts and Contracts are pretty lame.

old outline and solid memorization. I memorized an entire outline and wrote it down at the beginning of the final. I lost 12 minutes and had something to stare at and use to apply on every question. You can salvage the situation.

Get a former students outline or a friends outline. Otherwise, use a commercial outline as a guide to quickly make a relevant outline for your class (real brief one).

Study the outline. Work on multiple choice questions. Essay practice takes time. However, multiple choice questions will give you a reference points for the rules so you understand how they work. I do practice multiple choice questions even for essay only finals because they help me understand the rules rather than just know the rules.

I do this all the time, don't worry. I would spend the 2 days just rereading the material and making a shitty outline. Remember, your final grade was already mostly determined the first day of class (its how smart you are in comparison to your classmates).

Read and re-read your outline, and just be content with what is in it and quit worrying about things that you may have forgotten to put in it.

Not sure what you know/don't know with respect to your course.. also not sure your method of note-taking but, personally, I use MS OneNote and my strategy for crunching has been to sit down and condense everything as much as possible into 1 page that's as bare-bones as possible. I also use "buzz-words" and abbreviations that I can use to jog my memory during the exams. If you don't have anyone else's outlines or your own outlines to go off of, start with your syllabus - it'll give you a rough idea of where to start and how to proceed. Then, just go over this by reading and re-reading. Step outside for a smoke or something and try to recite as much as you can from memory. Also do the same thing with a pen/paper. It sounds repetitive and dumb, but it helped me remember.

Of course typing all this out would have helped to do prior to now.. but you can't get to everything during 1L sometimes. Of course you need to know how to apply the stuff you're reading/typing.. but I'm assuming you can do that after looking at the concepts. Good luck dude!

Just look at someone else's old outline, preferably someone else who has taken the class, as others have said. If you have time, pull the BLL from that outline and put it into yours and create a mini-outline. Don't panic; you've at least gone to class and participated, which helps (how helpful it is of course depends on how engaged you were). 2 days is plenty of time to still do well.

assuming it's not too late, "Understanding Trademark Law" is quite good.