1L Exam Prep and Motivation Thread Forum

[snowpeach06]

hello 1Ls... quick question. I will be starting this fall, and both schools I may go to (FSU or GW) have exam weeks going through December 16. How many people actually have exams on Friday?? I ask because my best friend just got engaged and asked me to be her maid of honor, and she set the date for December 17 without checking with my schedule. It's a destination wedding, too. So really just wondering how common it is to have exams on the last day... I am sort of sick to my stomach at the moment.

I always have an exam on the last day. It's not uncommon at all. Even so, if you book a flight for Friday evening, you can still make it for the ceremony on Saturday. Unless the destination has a dramatic time change.

[minuit]

hello 1Ls... quick question. I will be starting this fall, and both schools I may go to (FSU or GW) have exam weeks going through December 16. How many people actually have exams on Friday?? I ask because my best friend just got engaged and asked me to be her maid of honor, and she set the date for December 17 without checking with my schedule. It's a destination wedding, too. So really just wondering how common it is to have exams on the last day... I am sort of sick to my stomach at the moment.

This isn't the place to ask this, but exams can be any day of the week. Friday, Saturday, etc., are all game. If you have more questions, PM someone or start a thread in the lounge. This place is only for self-loathing.

Yeah... I know it's not exactly the place, but I really didn't think it deserved its own thread, and this is probably where a lot of 1Ls congregate, so I figured you all would know best. Thanks though!

I always have an exam on the last day. It's not uncommon at all. Even so, if you book a flight for Friday evening, you can still make it for the ceremony on Saturday. Unless the destination has a dramatic time change.

The biggest problem is missing the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on Friday... I'm going to have to talk to her about what her expectations are. But thanks for answering my question - I will go ahead and plan on having an exam the last day! I don't want her to bank on me not having one.

[Helmholtz]

hello 1Ls... quick question. I will be starting this fall, and both schools I may go to (FSU or GW) have exam weeks going through December 16. How many people actually have exams on Friday?? I ask because my best friend just got engaged and asked me to be her maid of honor, and she set the date for December 17 without checking with my schedule. It's a destination wedding, too. So really just wondering how common it is to have exams on the last day... I am sort of sick to my stomach at the moment.

I always have an exam on the last day. It's not uncommon at all. Even so, if you book a flight for Friday evening, you can still make it for the ceremony on Saturday. Unless the destination has a dramatic time change.

+1

I think my school intentionally schedules 1L finals in an effort to spread them out. Meaning there's one on the first day, as well as one on the last day of exam period.

[traehekat]

hello 1Ls... quick question. I will be starting this fall, and both schools I may go to (FSU or GW) have exam weeks going through December 16. How many people actually have exams on Friday?? I ask because my best friend just got engaged and asked me to be her maid of honor, and she set the date for December 17 without checking with my schedule. It's a destination wedding, too. So really just wondering how common it is to have exams on the last day... I am sort of sick to my stomach at the moment.

I always have an exam on the last day. It's not uncommon at all. Even so, if you book a flight for Friday evening, you can still make it for the ceremony on Saturday. Unless the destination has a dramatic time change.

+1

I think my school intentionally schedules 1L finals in an effort to spread them out. Meaning there's one on the first day, as well as one on the last day of exam period.

+1. my school does a great job of spreading it all out and for 1L core classes all the exams begin at 1pm, so nothing really early in the morning.

[swc65]

hello 1Ls... quick question. I will be starting this fall, and both schools I may go to (FSU or GW) have exam weeks going through December 16. How many people actually have exams on Friday?? I ask because my best friend just got engaged and asked me to be her maid of honor, and she set the date for December 17 without checking with my schedule. It's a destination wedding, too. So really just wondering how common it is to have exams on the last day... I am sort of sick to my stomach at the moment.

I always have an exam on the last day. It's not uncommon at all. Even so, if you book a flight for Friday evening, you can still make it for the ceremony on Saturday. Unless the destination has a dramatic time change.

+1

I think my school intentionally schedules 1L finals in an effort to spread them out. Meaning there's one on the first day, as well as one on the last day of exam period.

+1. my school does a great job of spreading it all out and for 1L core classes all the exams begin at 1pm, so nothing really early in the morning.

So jealous!!! My grades are definitely correlated with the time of my tests two of my tests are at 10am this semester

[snowpeach06]

So jealous!!! My grades are definitely correlated with the time of my tests two of my tests are at 10am this semester

10am? We get 8 AM's. Although, I actually prefer them. Me and my friends have a buddy system going for making sure that we all wake up - we go eat a leisurely breakfast, and by lunch, we're free to take some time off and relax before we have to start studying again. This semester though, I think most of my exams are in the afternoon, which means, I'll spend the morning worrying and last minute studying that will be ineffective. I think my brain is better in the morning too. And, there are only 2 or 3 days inbetween each exam. Better than no days in between. But, I had like 4-5 days inbetween last semester.

[swc65]

So jealous!!! My grades are definitely correlated with the time of my tests two of my tests are at 10am this semester

10am? We get 8 AM's. Although, I actually prefer them. Me and my friends have a buddy system going for making sure that we all wake up - we go eat a leisurely breakfast, and by lunch, we're free to take some time off and relax before we have to start studying again. This semester though, I think most of my exams are in the afternoon, which means, I'll spend the morning worrying and last minute studying that will be ineffective. I think my brain is better in the morning too. And, there are only 2 or 3 days inbetween each exam. Better than no days in between. But, I had like 4-5 days inbetween last semester.

8AM??? /self! I am useless in the mornings. I am so much better at this stuff in the afternoons. The exams that I had that were in the after noons were a couple grades above the exams I had in the morning! Partly because I was half asleep.

[snowpeach06]

My microsoft word keeps crashing. Luckily I'm a compulsive saver - like, every time I type a sentence. But this is annoying as fuck.

[Helmholtz]

Looking for something with which to practice non-multiple choice application of crimlaw. Think E&E's without the suckitude that is the Crim E&E.

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[mbusch22]

Looking for something with which to practice non-multiple choice application of crimlaw. Think E&E's without the suckitude that is the Crim E&E.

Crunchtime has some DECENT essay questions. Look over the Emmanuels I think it has about five essays. I would spend most of your time going over your professor's exams, though.

its annoying when your professors (like most of mine) don't make old exams available, though.

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[Holly Golightly]

Looking for something with which to practice non-multiple choice application of crimlaw. Think E&E's without the suckitude that is the Crim E&E.

Crunchtime has some DECENT essay questions. Look over the Emmanuels I think it has about five essays. I would spend most of your time going over your professor's exams, though.

its annoying when your professors (like most of mine) don't make old exams available, though.

This. Especially when you're taking kind of weird classes like my electives. And have conlaw profs who babble about nothing related to anything.

[Helmholtz]

Looking for something with which to practice non-multiple choice application of crimlaw. Think E&E's without the suckitude that is the Crim E&E.

Crunchtime has some DECENT essay questions. Look over the Emmanuels I think it has about five essays. I would spend most of your time going over your professor's exams, though.

Yeah, that's what I would be doing, but she's a new prof, has only taught the class one other time, and she used every portion of the one crim exam she has done as in-class hypos.

Will try your suggestion, though. Looked around last night for other crim exams from a Dressler-casebook class, but didn't run across anything very useful within my very limited search. She likes to cherry pick parts of the book (e.g. "read this case, but none of the notes; read notes 3 and 5 following this case, but don't read the case; read pages 125-7, 524, 527, and 396-404 for class tomorrow), so that puts another layer of difficult on it I think.

[Thirteen]

Looking for something with which to practice non-multiple choice application of crimlaw. Think E&E's without the suckitude that is the Crim E&E.

Crunchtime has some DECENT essay questions. Look over the Emmanuels I think it has about five essays. I would spend most of your time going over your professor's exams, though.

its annoying when your professors (like most of mine) don't make old exams available, though.

It's even more annoying when you throw away the practice exam packet, then find out that it has exam problems from the spring. 5 extra bucks down the drain.

[mths]

So jealous!!! My grades are definitely correlated with the time of my tests two of my tests are at 10am this semester

10am? We get 8 AM's. Although, I actually prefer them. Me and my friends have a buddy system going for making sure that we all wake up - we go eat a leisurely breakfast, and by lunch, we're free to take some time off and relax before we have to start studying again. This semester though, I think most of my exams are in the afternoon, which means, I'll spend the morning worrying and last minute studying that will be ineffective. I think my brain is better in the morning too. And, there are only 2 or 3 days inbetween each exam. Better than no days in between. But, I had like 4-5 days inbetween last semester.

8AM??? /self! I am useless in the mornings. I am so much better at this stuff in the afternoons. The exams that I had that were in the after noons were a couple grades above the exams I had in the morning! Partly because I was half asleep.

we had 8am ones too

I'd much rather that than an afternoon exam

[dailygrind]

Looking for something with which to practice non-multiple choice application of crimlaw. Think E&E's without the suckitude that is the Crim E&E.

Crunchtime has some DECENT essay questions. Look over the Emmanuels I think it has about five essays. I would spend most of your time going over your professor's exams, though.

Yeah, that's what I would be doing, but she's a new prof, has only taught the class one other time, and she used every portion of the one crim exam she has done as in-class hypos.

Will try your suggestion, though. Looked around last night for other crim exams from a Dressler-casebook class, but didn't run across anything very useful within my very limited search. She likes to cherry pick parts of the book (e.g. "read this case, but none of the notes; read notes 3 and 5 following this case, but don't read the case; read pages 125-7, 524, 527, and 396-404 for class tomorrow), so that puts another layer of difficult on it I think.

i used the black letter outline in crim that low writes, and that one had a few essay questions w/ answers. dressler writes one too, and i have to guess there are a few essay question/answers in there as well. http://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Law-Blac ... 0314152334

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[Helmholtz]

i used the black letter outline in crim that low writes, and that one had a few essay questions w/ answers. dressler writes one too, and i have to guess there are a few essay question/answers in there as well. http://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Law-Blac ... 0314152334

I have the Dressler BLL Outline. It only has two actual essay questions in it, while the rest of the review questions are stuff like, "If Albert intentionally kills Bob, what does intentionally mean in this context?". Helpful, but not outstanding.

So, my prof was a new prof as well, first semester of law school, had no idea what to do.

My recommendation: TRY to find some crim law exams, especially ones that relate to your prof's teaching style. I read LaFave, Dressler and every other supplement. Just make sure you know the material front/back, you'll do alright.

This will be my plan. Thanks!

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[Holly Golightly]

God, I miss last semester. I would gladly swap conlaw for civpro, property for crim, etc. etc.

[TTH]

God, I miss last semester. I would gladly swap conlaw for civpro, property for crim, etc. etc.

so-signed. Con Law is absolute torture. My exam will be fail-tastic in this class.

[gwuorbust]

God, I miss last semester. I would gladly swap conlaw for civpro, property for crim, etc. etc.

property is the spawn of the devil

[Pretzel_Logic]

property is the spawn of the devil

so credited. So, so credited.

Also I just cleaned my apartment and went grocery shopping instead of starting my outlines (yeah, you read that right...starting...okay, I have half a property outline).

DOOMED

[beach_terror]

Skipping Ks to outline property and do some laundry. My teachers are so god damn bad this semester that I don't miss anything by skipping class.