1L Exam Prep and Motivation Thread Forum

[Baylan]

I finished on Monday. This is the first time I've felt human since then. Drunk drunk drunk Monday. Hangover Tuesday.

[TTH]

Finished my last exam yesterday. In hindsight, I was completely unrealistic as a 0L about how exams were going to go and how well I was going to do. I'll be thrilled to be above median.

[clintonius]

Finished my last exam yesterday. In hindsight, I was completely unrealistic as a 0L about how exams were going to go and how well I was going to do. I'll be thrilled to be above median.

Yeah, this. Last one is in less than two hours. I feel good, but not great. And pretty sure I bombed the hell out of my crim final last week.

Law school: some of the hype is legit.

[beach_terror]

Done yesterday as well

I wrote 6200 words for Civ Pro, 7200 for Crim, and 6400 for Torts. I never went off on rants, and as soon as I stated the rule I always said "here, facts blah blah blah".

I hope to god some of those words are good words.

[Stanford4Me]

Last exam in t-minus 1 hour and 37 minutes.

[romothesavior]

I can't believe some of you still have exams.

[goosey]

Done yesterday as well

I wrote 6200 words for Civ Pro, 7200 for Crim, and 6400 for Torts. I never went off on rants, and as soon as I stated the rule I always said "here, facts blah blah blah".

I hope to god some of those words are good words.

holy crap

i am worried I didnt write enough for torts..wrote 3700 words..i wasted about 25 minutes in the beginning

[romothesavior]

Done yesterday as well

I wrote 6200 words for Civ Pro, 7200 for Crim, and 6400 for Torts. I never went off on rants, and as soon as I stated the rule I always said "here, facts blah blah blah".

I hope to god some of those words are good words.

How long were your exam periods?

[Stanford4Me]

I can't believe some of you still have exams.

They gave us too much time between exams. 4 days between Crim and Civ Pro.

[Helmholtz]

dooooooooone

[beach_terror]

Done yesterday as well

I wrote 6200 words for Civ Pro, 7200 for Crim, and 6400 for Torts. I never went off on rants, and as soon as I stated the rule I always said "here, facts blah blah blah".

I hope to god some of those words are good words.

How long were your exam periods?

Do you mean how long did we have to take each exam?

Civ Pro was 4 hours, Crim was 4 hours with a 1 hour reading time where we couldn't write, and torts was 3 hours

[Geist13]

as soon as I stated the rule I always said "here, facts blah blah blah".

do people actually not do this though. I know every book (GTM, Delaney) says many students ignore the facts. But I have trouble believing that is true. I mean, who are these people who don't address the facts? I doubt anyone in my section would do this (just judging from what i know about my section). Well, maybe one girl ...

[Sakura3210]

Done. Took my final exam SICK as heck (fever, congestion, sore throat, the whole shabang). Here's hoping that what I wrote actually makes sense

[eandy]

Done. Took my final exam SICK as heck (fever, congestion, sore throat, the whole shabang). Here's hoping that what I wrote actually makes sense

I feel your pain. I had to be isolated in another room because I had bronchitis and (1) covering my mouth every time I coughed would have meant typing was impossible and (2) my coughing was sure to annoy the hell out of everyone. It was no fun.

[clintonius]

DONE. Civ Pro: 3.5 hours for typing (plus 30 minutes to read), 6,877 words. Here's hoping it was relevant!

[Stanford4Me]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

[kalvano]

as soon as I stated the rule I always said "here, facts blah blah blah".

do people actually not do this though. I know every book (GTM, Delaney) says many students ignore the facts. But I have trouble believing that is true. I mean, who are these people who don't address the facts? I doubt anyone in my section would do this (just judging from what i know about my section). Well, maybe one girl ...

I think it's probably more common than you realize. People sit down, see the exam staring at them, and freak out. Or they have issues pulling relevant facts out of the long patterns, and so they just give up.

[Thirteen]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

Sounds like my last final. I knew that I could have improved a few things, or at least proofread, but I submitted the test, kicked back, and chilled for 5 minutes.

[kalvano]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

Sounds like my last final. I knew that I could have improved a few things, or at least proofread, but I submitted the test, kicked back, and chilled for 5 minutes.

That's because Torts is so boring. I almost fell asleep after discussing battery for the 487th time.

[BaiAilian2013]

DONE. Civ Pro: 3.5 hours for typing (plus 30 minutes to read), 6,877 words. Here's hoping it was relevant!

Danngg did yall not have a word limit???

[Helmholtz]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

Sounds like my last final. I knew that I could have improved a few things, or at least proofread, but I submitted the test, kicked back, and chilled for 5 minutes.

I have to say that I was a little shocked at the people who left 15-20 minutes early. Never happened, not even once, during the other tests. I think people are just exhausted and elated to be done.

[IAFG]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

Sounds like my last final. I knew that I could have improved a few things, or at least proofread, but I submitted the test, kicked back, and chilled for 5 minutes.

I have to say that I was a little shocked at the people who left 15-20 minutes early. Never happened, not even once, during the other tests. I think people are just exhausted and elated to be done.

i hate law school for making me jealous that no one in my section got sick, freaked out or left early.

[Stanford4Me]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

Sounds like my last final. I knew that I could have improved a few things, or at least proofread, but I submitted the test, kicked back, and chilled for 5 minutes.

I have to say that I was a little shocked at the people who left 15-20 minutes early. Never happened, not even once, during the other tests. I think people are just exhausted and elated to be done.

Yeah, by the time I finished I realized that , even if I found something to change, I didn't want to start editing things because I was afraid I would run out of time in the middle of changing something/adding an argument/moving things around, so I just submitted it then and there.

[Helmholtz]

Two people nearly fainted from the heat in our room during the exam. One girl almost threw a fit after her battery died. I finished 10 minutes early and didn't bother reading over anything. DONE BITCHES.

Sounds like my last final. I knew that I could have improved a few things, or at least proofread, but I submitted the test, kicked back, and chilled for 5 minutes.

I have to say that I was a little shocked at the people who left 15-20 minutes early. Never happened, not even once, during the other tests. I think people are just exhausted and elated to be done.

Yeah, by the time I finished I realized that , even if I found something to change, I didn't want to start editing things because I was afraid I would run out of time in the middle of changing something/adding an argument/moving things around, so I just submitted it then and there.

Yeah, ours was multiple choice and I definitely caught things the second time through that I hadn't at first.

[beach_terror]

I overheard some girls in my section talking after my torts exam.

"Did you talk about loss of consortium?"
"Yeah!"

At my teachers office hours, she specifically told us not to speak about specific damage types or specific damages in our analysis. Basically, she told us just to say here there are damages because P hit her head due to D's negligence. I felt kinda bad for laughing to myself as I walked out.