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Re: How many hours a day does the average law student..

Post by chargers » Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:43 pm

For me, its probably 4-5 hours outside of class per day.
My school has graded LRW, though. I would assume that I spend a whole lot more time on those assignments than people who go to a school where LRW is P/F.
So it kind of depends.

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Re: How many hours a day does the average law student..

Post by RAMLAW » Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:23 pm

First 6 weeks of 1L: 6-8
Since I took my first midterm last week and realize the only useful way to spend your time is to prepare for exams: 2-4

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Re: How many hours a day does the average law student..

Post by MarkfromWI » Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:48 pm

pancakes3 wrote:
To me, Res Ipsa sort of just speaks for itself.
haha. thank you for this

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Re: How many hours a day does the average law student..

Post by Attax » Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:57 pm

1L here. Ramping it up currently. Was originally about 1-2hours/day outside of class. Now I'd say around 3-4.

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Re: How many hours a day does the average law student..

Post by bkraut1 » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:40 pm

6-8 hrs outside of class Mon-Fri. Around 10 hrs Sat & Sun. Generally, you should expect to be working 75-80 hrs/week during 1L. This is pretty typical of T14s.

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Post by BigZuck » Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:42 pm

bkraut1 wrote:6-8 hrs outside of class Mon-Fri. Around 10 hrs Sat & Sun. Generally, you should expect to be working 75-80 hrs/week during 1L. This is pretty typical of T14s.
A worthy bump. Tyft

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Re: How many hours a day does the average law student..

Post by Power_of_Facing » Sat Nov 01, 2014 12:46 pm

On average, I'd say I study probably three or four hours a day outside of class (I'm trying to treat law school as a 9-5)...The real bummer is that I am stressing out about not working enough pretty much around the clock, which stress seems to stem from the inherent competition and uncertainty of 1L.

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