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My exams are open book. In addition to the casebook we are allowed to bring in our outline, our class notes, and the class slides.

While my outline are between 15-20 pages, my class notes and slides average well over 100.

I hope not to have to refer to the latter two materials, but I want to have them with me for the worst-case scenario.

Do people just staple them together or hole punch and use a binder with tabs?

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84weeks wrote:My exams are open book. In addition to the casebook we are allowed to bring in our outline, our class notes, and the class slides.

While my outline are between 15-20 pages, my class notes and slides average well over 100.

I hope not to have to refer to the latter two materials, but I want to have them with me for the worst-case scenario.

Do people just staple them together or hole punch and use a binder with tabs?

If you don't get this right you will definitely fail all your exams.

Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

Gamecubesupreme wrote:Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

I think you're missing the other 80% in between

make tabs as you try to figure out what to do.

You better go to the nearest printing store right now and get your outline laminated and hole-punched, and put it in a binder. Believe me, the last thing you want is an outline on non-laminated paper. You don't want to accidentally get markings on it that could gravely impair its usefulness on the exam. I accidentally ended up getting grease on the UCC 2-207 of my section of my contracts outline, and sure enough, that topic was tested on the exam, and I had no idea what to do because the text was all smeared and dirty and unreadable. I was lucky I managed to get a B in that class. You might think this doesn't matter, but I guarantee that everyone who makes law review at your school will have the most prestigious-looking outlines that exist. Don't even think of using staples. Otherwise, you're just asking to get below median.

haha, ok. Point taken.

beach_terror wrote:

Gamecubesupreme wrote:Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

I think you're missing the other 80% in between

No, they are what I classify as "normal."

beach_terror wrote:

Gamecubesupreme wrote:Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

I think you're missing the other 80% in between

No, this person is probably right. It's likely that only someone who is (1) completely on top of their stuff but neurotic a la the top 10% or (2) completely incompetent and desperate not to fail a la the bottom 10% would ask a question like this.

OP, I hope you're in the former group!

LoriBelle wrote:

beach_terror wrote:

Gamecubesupreme wrote:Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

I think you're missing the other 80% in between

No, this person is probably right. It's likely that only someone who is (1) completely on top of their stuff but neurotic a la the top 10% or (2) completely incompetent and desperate not to fail a la the bottom 10% would ask a question like this.

OP, I hope you're in the former group!

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beach_terror wrote:

LoriBelle wrote:

beach_terror wrote:

Gamecubesupreme wrote:Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

I think you're missing the other 80% in between

No, this person is probably right. It's likely that only someone who is (1) completely on top of their stuff but neurotic a la the top 10% or (2) completely incompetent and desperate not to fail a la the bottom 10% would ask a question like this.

OP, I hope you're in the former group!

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Cavalier wrote:You better go to the nearest printing store right now and get your outline laminated and hole-punched, and put it in a binder. Believe me, the last thing you want is an outline on non-laminated paper. You don't want to accidentally get markings on it that could gravely impair its usefulness on the exam. I accidentally ended up getting grease on the UCC 2-207 of my section of my contracts outline, and sure enough, that topic was tested on the exam, and I had no idea what to do because the text was all smeared and dirty and unreadable. I was lucky I managed to get a B in that class. You might think this doesn't matter, but I guarantee that everyone who makes law review at your school will have the most prestigious-looking outlines that exist. Don't even think of using staples. Otherwise, you're just asking to get below median.

I've heard of someone doing this. For a closed book exam. Wish I was kidding.

Gamecubesupreme wrote:

beach_terror wrote:

Gamecubesupreme wrote:Every time I see topics like this, I always wonder if the person asking the question turns out to be Top 10% material or Bottom 10%.

I think you're missing the other 80% in between

No, they are what I classify as "normal."

Guess I'm normal. Ended up in the thick of the 80%.

Get a succinct outline, use many tabs. You won't have time to do more than the occasional consultation of the outline, let alone the slides & book. The goal is to keep typing continually in the exam, making sure you covered as many issues (or with sufficient depth...depends on the prof: consult his grading sheet or ask him personally) in your answer as possible.