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So, how long are your outlines?
If they are not at least 75 pages so far, you are doing it wrong.
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good post
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The lack of comments in this thread clearly shows that people are taking my advice and furiously working on their outlines.SilverE2 wrote:good post
Gun hard or go home.
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FTFYjoncrooshal wrote:The lack of comments in this thread clearly shows that people are taking my advice and furiously working on their outlines.SilverE2 wrote:good post
Gunhardsmart or go home.
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True. It is an endurance race.target wrote:FTFYjoncrooshal wrote:The lack of comments in this thread clearly shows that people are taking my advice and furiously working on their outlines.SilverE2 wrote:good post
Gunhardsmart or go home.
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Re: So, how long are your outlines?
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~1 page per week of class. A little less depending on how natural the material comes to me. A little longer/detailed if I don't remember the statute or rule clearly (ex: civpro.)
~1 page per week of class. A little less depending on how natural the material comes to me. A little longer/detailed if I don't remember the statute or rule clearly (ex: civpro.)
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If your outlines are less than 200 pages per class, you done fucked up big time.
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I thought that was just enough for the midterm I have in Contracts.chimp wrote:If your outlines are less than 200 pages per class, you done fucked up big time.
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Serious talk: That is why this thread was created, duh.G. T. L. Rev. wrote:Robot Pimp says longer than the casebook, if you really know what's what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPahA5WSCw
Seriously, there is no proper length. And no matter what people tell you, longer is by no means better.
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WTF is an outline.
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joncrooshal wrote:Serious talk: That is why this thread was created, duh.G. T. L. Rev. wrote:Robot Pimp says longer than the casebook, if you really know what's what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPahA5WSCw
Seriously, there is no proper length. And no matter what people tell you, longer is by no means better.
Serious talk: ask yourself How many open-/closed-note exams will you have? and what it the point of an outline in each case?joncrooshal wrote:If they are not at least 75 pages so far, you are doing it wrong.
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3 open, 1 semi-open.target wrote:joncrooshal wrote:Serious talk: That is why this thread was created, duh.G. T. L. Rev. wrote:Robot Pimp says longer than the casebook, if you really know what's what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPahA5WSCw
Seriously, there is no proper length. And no matter what people tell you, longer is by no means better.Serious talk: ask yourself How many open-/closed-note exams will you have? and what it the point of an outline in each case?joncrooshal wrote:If they are not at least 75 pages so far, you are doing it wrong.
I want to have every fact of every case available. It's extremely important to know about the hairy hand of Hawkins and about how his life was fucking miserable after the case. I know my K's professor will love it when I spend 3/4 of the question analyzing the facts of the case.
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3 weeks into contracts, 3 pages.
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Re: So, how long are your outlines?
You'll never come close to passing a law exam unless you give a detailed description of the facts of each case you reference along with its procedural history. The holding and the rule are not really that important I don't think.
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People have 20 page outlines for torts at my school. Yes you read that correctly.
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I never understood how someone could make a 100+ page outline until I came to law school. There is enough information to probably make a 150 page outline for each of my classes.
The key is to distill the bullshit, cases, and lectures down to a manageable size. I am hoping for about 35 pages per class. I am at about 5-8 for each right now.
Then I can hopefully reduce those down to mini-outlines during finals.
The key is to distill the bullshit, cases, and lectures down to a manageable size. I am hoping for about 35 pages per class. I am at about 5-8 for each right now.
Then I can hopefully reduce those down to mini-outlines during finals.
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Why would they be? Everyone knows law school exams are based on theory only. Fuck the facts of the case on the exam. Base everything off the facts of the cases in class. I also hear that making your own hypos in the exam hypos is the way to get an A++chimp wrote:You'll never come close to passing a law exam unless you give a detailed description of the facts of each case you reference along with its procedural history. The holding and the rule are not really that important I don't think.
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Re: So, how long are your outlines?
~10-25 pages, depending on the class.
It's worked well for me up 'til now.
It's worked well for me up 'til now.
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BeenDidThat wrote:~10-25 pages, depending on the class.
It's worked well for me up 'til now.

Michele feels that is enough.
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