Contracts - Open Book Exam Forum
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Contracts - Open Book Exam
Looking for some wisdom. How do you use the material you're allowed to bring with you?
Here's what I am thinking about bringing into the exam:
1. Checklists
2. Attack outline
Also bringing this in case I get lost:
3. Detailed outline
4. Case briefs (my professor marks for authority)
Should I bring anything else? And what's the best way to use the material? I plan on memorizing, internalizing concepts, and then applying the hell out of it.
Here's what I am thinking about bringing into the exam:
1. Checklists
2. Attack outline
Also bringing this in case I get lost:
3. Detailed outline
4. Case briefs (my professor marks for authority)
Should I bring anything else? And what's the best way to use the material? I plan on memorizing, internalizing concepts, and then applying the hell out of it.
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
Marked tabs, no more than 8 or so, in your text book, just in case you get lost.
Also, be familiar with the index, TOC, and TOA. It seems obvious, but some are in strange places and for crim law I relied on them a lot for issues that sounded familiar from class but I could only recall fragments of.
Also, be familiar with the index, TOC, and TOA. It seems obvious, but some are in strange places and for crim law I relied on them a lot for issues that sounded familiar from class but I could only recall fragments of.
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
not necessary, but you can bring your practice exams and create form paragraphs for each concept and decision treeBruce W. 1991 wrote:Looking for some wisdom. How do you use the material you're allowed to bring with you?
Here's what I am thinking about bringing into the exam:
1. Checklists
2. Attack outline
Also bringing this in case I get lost:
3. Detailed outline
4. Case briefs (my professor marks for authority)
Should I bring anything else? And what's the best way to use the material? I plan on memorizing, internalizing concepts, and then applying the hell out of it.
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
Maybe bring a tittie mag if you need to quickly rub one out halfway through
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
This is helpful. Will they let me take magazine to the bathroom or should I hide it behind the toilet (godfather style)?Hand wrote:Maybe bring a tittie mag if you need to quickly rub one out halfway through
I feel like you get me.
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
I am so doing that! Thank you!PourMeTea wrote:not necessary, but you can bring your practice exams and create form paragraphs for each concept and decision treeBruce W. 1991 wrote:Looking for some wisdom. How do you use the material you're allowed to bring with you?
Here's what I am thinking about bringing into the exam:
1. Checklists
2. Attack outline
Also bringing this in case I get lost:
3. Detailed outline
4. Case briefs (my professor marks for authority)
Should I bring anything else? And what's the best way to use the material? I plan on memorizing, internalizing concepts, and then applying the hell out of it.
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
Better to just quietly put it to use under your desk, saves time that would otherwise be lost by going to the bathroomBruce W. 1991 wrote:This is helpful. Will they let me take magazine to the bathroom or should I hide it behind the toilet (godfather style)?Hand wrote:Maybe bring a tittie mag if you need to quickly rub one out halfway through
I feel like you get me.
ETA I'm just a 1L so not sure the above is TCR for contracts specifically
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam
I think the best advice is that if you have to reference your outline more than for a quick rule or something you already lost. I had an attach with all the cases on 1 sheet, and one word to remind me of the concept in case I wanted to use it to analogize to the facts. If this is a true racehorse law school issue spotter. e.g. (hadley)(consequential damages). I would have something like that for every case and maybe another parenthetical with a relevant fact.
Good luck. Make sure you take a lot of practice exams and try to know the law cold. Everyone else will that is the baseline. You get points for applying law to fact, making arguments for both sides plaintiff and defendant, and doing both these things quickly and coherently. Also, make sure that you use a new sub heading for each issue. Your prof will appreciate it.
Good luck. Make sure you take a lot of practice exams and try to know the law cold. Everyone else will that is the baseline. You get points for applying law to fact, making arguments for both sides plaintiff and defendant, and doing both these things quickly and coherently. Also, make sure that you use a new sub heading for each issue. Your prof will appreciate it.