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Bruce W. 1991

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Contracts - Open Book Exam

Post by Bruce W. 1991 » Tue Nov 17, 2015 5:48 pm

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

Post by SemperLegal » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:29 pm

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.

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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam

Post by PourMeTea » Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:57 pm

Bruce 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.
not necessary, but you can bring your practice exams and create form paragraphs for each concept and decision tree

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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam

Post by Hand » Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:41 pm

Maybe bring a tittie mag if you need to quickly rub one out halfway through

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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam

Post by Bruce W. 1991 » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:18 pm

Hand wrote:Maybe bring a tittie mag if you need to quickly rub one out halfway through
This is helpful. Will they let me take magazine to the bathroom or should I hide it behind the toilet (godfather style)?

I feel like you get me.
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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam

Post by Bruce W. 1991 » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:19 pm

PourMeTea wrote:
Bruce 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.
not necessary, but you can bring your practice exams and create form paragraphs for each concept and decision tree
I am so doing that! Thank you!

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Re: Contracts - Open Book Exam

Post by Hand » Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:02 pm

Bruce W. 1991 wrote:
Hand wrote:Maybe bring a tittie mag if you need to quickly rub one out halfway through
This is helpful. Will they let me take magazine to the bathroom or should I hide it behind the toilet (godfather style)?

I feel like you get me.
Better to just quietly put it to use under your desk, saves time that would otherwise be lost by going to the bathroom

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

Post by Lacepiece23 » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:42 pm

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.

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