OFFICIAL 1L Exam Prep & Motivation Thread (CSWS) Forum

[Jsa725]

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[Pleasye]

Halfway there.

Keep it up!!! I have 1 more left

You're sooo close. I have property on Thursday and then a week until Admin .

[dextermorgan]

Holy shit I'm done with 1L. Probably median pwned but IDGAF at this point.

NOYCE enjoy dat freedom breh

Thanks. Now I get to "enjoy" the write-on, but at least it's not as shitty as most schools (we get a month).

Good luck to those of you still slogging it out. It is a fucking amazing feeling to be done.

[Jsa725]

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[Danger Zone]

The writing competition here is terrible, miserable, horrible... oh my god...
Being stuck in a room from like 9-730 doing nothing but fixing citations and proofreading.

Don't know if you saw, but I have gotten some good write on advice here.

[SportsFan]

The writing competition here is terrible, miserable, horrible... oh my god...
Being stuck in a room from like 9-730 doing nothing but fixing citations and proofreading.

Don't know if you saw, but I have gotten some good write on advice here.

Was just reading that, but thanks!

[Bronck]

The writing competition here is terrible, miserable, horrible... oh my god...
Being stuck in a room from like 9-730 doing nothing but fixing citations and proofreading.

Don't know if you saw, but I have gotten some good write on advice here.

Bookmarking that shit for ~1.5 weeks from now

[Jsa725]

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[Danger Zone]

Niice! Yeah... I will have that too... Transferring so I've gotta figure out the dates PLUS it is entirely possible that the transfer decisions are sent at a time that may put me in a position to need to do two write-ons

Have you definitely decided on transferring? Gotta let me know how that turns out, we might end up at the same school!

[SportsFan]

Holy shit I'm done with 1L. Probably median pwned but IDGAF at this point.

NOYCE enjoy dat freedom breh

Thanks. Now I get to "enjoy" the write-on, but at least it's not as shitty as most schools (we get a month).

Niice! Yeah... I will have that too... Transferring so I've gotta figure out the dates PLUS it is entirely possible that the transfer decisions are sent at a time that may put me in a position to need to do two write-ons

You know for sure you're transferring?? Where to?

[Jsa725]

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[mephistopheles]

You know for sure you're transferring?? Where to?

[Jsa725]

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[Bronck]

You know for sure you're transferring?? Where to?

Also PM'd

Curious as well

[brotherdarkness]

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[Jsa725]

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[soj]

RAP is hard but everyone can get it with practice. Keep at it, bros.

[gaud]

Last final tomorrow

then I've got to prep for write-on.

I just want to sleep in.

[mephistopheles]

Last final tomorrow

then I've got to prep for write-on.

I just want to sleep in.

Yeah, I literally slept for days

[Bronck]

I'm so fucked for Crim. Gonna focus on it after tomorrow's final, but I feel like my prof wants a lot.

Is it common for profs to insert random statutes for crimes you never covered in class? It seems like a common theme with my prof. What's the best approach for those Qs?

[stillwater]

I'm so fucked for Crim. Gonna focus on it after tomorrow's final, but I feel like my prof wants a lot.

Is it common for profs to insert random statutes for crimes you never covered in class? It seems like a common theme with my prof. What's the best approach for those Qs?

Yes. My prof does the same jam. It's jsut to make sure you don't interpret the statute like a moron. I know you got this. Just take that kit of actus reus and mens rea bullshit and slap it around in the fact pattern. BUT THAT'S WHAT WE DO. Apply that law to fact.

[Blumpbeef]

I'm so fucked for Crim. Gonna focus on it after tomorrow's final, but I feel like my prof wants a lot.

Is it common for profs to insert random statutes for crimes you never covered in class? It seems like a common theme with my prof. What's the best approach for those Qs?

Ya it's common and pretty cool IMO, better than memorization.

Look at if it has men's rea. Decide if it is strict liability ( low penalties), reckless (MPC assumption) or general intent (CL analog).

Result versus conduct crime to see if you need causation analysis.

Look at attendant circumstances and do men's rea for those too.

It's not so bad.

[soj]

yup, break it down by element, apply the appropriate mens rea to each element, and analyze. unless the prompt tells you to focus exclusively on that statute, remember there might be other crimes too (complicity/conspiracy/solicitation often comes out of nowhere).

[Doorkeeper]

First final today. Giddy up.

[guano]

RAP is destroying my entire sense of self worth.

haha, we had one mc question on rap on my exam, i saw a trigger word in one answer and chose it automatically.

i think i killed it.

NOYCE. Doing practice problems over and over and over, starting to see patterns. Anyone else notice that? If anyone has any hard and fast rules (i.e. this sort of language always fails RAP/always survives RAP), that would be super helpful.

When I did propery, we had 10 RAP questions out of 50 multiple choice where median ended up being 20 correct (the prof was evil; the required reading covered every page of the textbook)

There are no bright line words, or, more precisely, your professor is unlikely to use them.
My advise is to diagram the hypo - draw a timeline, put in the start time, branch out options (eg "if"), and draw a hard line at the cutoff date. If the entire class is known, you're good, if not, it fails RAP.
Pay close attention to conditional words like "but", "only", etc.