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Wahrheit wrote:

Jim Jones wrote:

Wahrheit wrote:I've felt like I understood CivPro in class all quarter, but reviewing for the final, it just feels like so much information and I don't know what I need to cover / whether I understand anything enough. The crippling self-doubt is setting in.

civ pro is the easiest 1L class. you're probably boned if youre this lost this close to the exam. just go get an upper classman's outline and hope that you get a lucky bounce

I have my outline, I have a cornucopia of outlines from upperclassmen, and I feel like I understand stuff. It just feels like CivPro is a subject where there could always be some exception that I forgot to include. There are so many details.

thesealocust wrote:The first step to being kinda-good at something is being comically awful at something. It is the way of things.

merlin- wrote:Just found out that one of my classmates gets half of the time extra on the exam (so 4 hours exam = 6).

Makes me super pissed, because most of the exams are so time constrained, extra time is SUCH a big difference.

PourMeTea wrote:

merlin- wrote:Just found out that one of my classmates gets half of the time extra on the exam (so 4 hours exam = 6).

Makes me super pissed, because most of the exams are so time constrained, extra time is SUCH a big difference.

I'm sure there's a good reason, though. Schools definitely have stringent requirements for this. You'll be okay.

Calbears123 wrote:ugh first final today...torts. Thought the 250 points of issue spotting went ok, however there was 60 points of math (settlement numbers for comparative negligence, i think i explained the steps right but pretty sure i did the math wrong, wish the prof spent more then 15 minutes on the last day of class on this stuff).

merlin- wrote:

PourMeTea wrote:

merlin- wrote:Just found out that one of my classmates gets half of the time extra on the exam (so 4 hours exam = 6).

Makes me super pissed, because most of the exams are so time constrained, extra time is SUCH a big difference.

I'm sure there's a good reason, though. Schools definitely have stringent requirements for this. You'll be okay.

He has "ADD," I know the kid. Completely slacked off the entire semester, while being very confident he would be ok.

Clearly my school isn't one of those. Ah whatever, still pretty annoying though.

merlin- wrote:

PourMeTea wrote:

merlin- wrote:Just found out that one of my classmates gets half of the time extra on the exam (so 4 hours exam = 6).

Makes me super pissed, because most of the exams are so time constrained, extra time is SUCH a big difference.

I'm sure there's a good reason, though. Schools definitely have stringent requirements for this. You'll be okay.

He has "ADD," I know the kid. Completely slacked off the entire semester, while being very confident he would be ok.

Clearly my school isn't one of those. Ah whatever, still pretty annoying though.

KMart wrote:

merlin- wrote:

PourMeTea wrote:

merlin- wrote:Just found out that one of my classmates gets half of the time extra on the exam (so 4 hours exam = 6).

Makes me super pissed, because most of the exams are so time constrained, extra time is SUCH a big difference.

I'm sure there's a good reason, though. Schools definitely have stringent requirements for this. You'll be okay.

He has "ADD," I know the kid. Completely slacked off the entire semester, while being very confident he would be ok.

Clearly my school isn't one of those. Ah whatever, still pretty annoying though.

I believe you missed her sarcasm as WUSTL fucked a lot of 1Ls last year, but it's okay. Relax.

Poldy wrote:I didn't say it does, I said it should. If someone is actually disabled then sure, give them accommodations. However, if someone with "ADD" gets 6 hours on the exam instead of 4 and writes 10,000 words instead of the 5,000-7,000 everyone else manages, then they don't have a disability, they are gaming the system.

Anyway, none of this is really in the spirit of an Anxiety Retreat so I'll leave it at that. There is a thread around here somewhere that is all about this topic.

Mono wrote:I felt really good about my performance on my first exam. Then during dinner I suddenly realized that I had missed an opportunity to cover some very obvious issues that I guarantee the rest of the class saw and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Is there still a chance I will be at least median? Or is this the sort of mistake that the bottom 10% are known for?

Mono wrote:I felt really good about my performance on my first exam. Then during dinner I suddenly realized that I had missed an opportunity to cover some very obvious issues that I guarantee the rest of the class saw and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Is there still a chance I will be at least median? Or is this the sort of mistake that the bottom 10% are known for?

jayessbee wrote:Not a 1L, but I'm off to my Wills and Trusts final and I feel like a dead man walking.

Mono wrote:I felt really good about my performance on my first exam. Then during dinner I suddenly realized that I had missed an opportunity to cover some very obvious issues that I guarantee the rest of the class saw and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Is there still a chance I will be at least median? Or is this the sort of mistake that the bottom 10% are known for?

xael wrote:

Mono wrote:I felt really good about my performance on my first exam. Then during dinner I suddenly realized that I had missed an opportunity to cover some very obvious issues that I guarantee the rest of the class saw and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Is there still a chance I will be at least median? Or is this the sort of mistake that the bottom 10% are known for?

You definitely are not the only person to miss issues, even if you think they are obvious, and even if you did, the way most professors grade is with a checklist. Oh you missed a 10 point issue? It's okay, you found 7 other 1 point issues!

You definitely can still be at median. Take a deep breath, and move on to the next one.

xael wrote:

Mono wrote:I felt really good about my performance on my first exam. Then during dinner I suddenly realized that I had missed an opportunity to cover some very obvious issues that I guarantee the rest of the class saw and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Is there still a chance I will be at least median? Or is this the sort of mistake that the bottom 10% are known for?

You definitely are not the only person to miss issues, even if you think they are obvious, and even if you did, the way most professors grade is with a checklist. Oh you missed a 10 point issue? It's okay, you found 7 other 1 point issues!

You definitely can still be at median. Take a deep breath, and move on to the next one.

foundingfather wrote: I did really well on a torts final without mentioning negligence once on the issue spotter.... but I had my econ shit down and distinguished between restatements and jurisdictions for everything else

pancakes3 wrote: that's borderline unbelievable but it just goes to show - you're taking your prof, not the class.

A. Nony Mouse wrote:I don't know, I had a prof thank me for writing well on the exam at the same time he told me it wouldn't get me any extra points. And I've had profs who were absolutely fine with bullet points. it's very prof specific. Some questions really are about word count and issues spotted. Some are absolutely not. Some are a bit of both.

So to get back to the point of the thread: don't worry about what people are saying about what works or doesn't if it doesn't fit with what you experienced. You will all be fine. You're almost through your exams!