Studying for finals Forum

[Traynor Brah]

It's important to realize that your time is limited in law school, so maximize your study by cutting out time wastes like supplements and outlining.

This doesn't make sense.

[Askariot]

Really good suggestion!

[General_Tso]

It's important to realize that your time is limited in law school, so maximize your study by cutting out time wastes like supplements and outlining.

This doesn't make sense.

Supplements are usually too broad, professors are likely to test you on the specific cases you've read rather than broad legal principles. It's better to hone in on the cases you've read than spend time reading general principles of contract law.

Outlining is just too time consuming in my opinion. If you've taken good notes, just go with those and supplement with outlines prepared by others for the same prof/casebook.

[Traynor Brah]

It's important to realize that your time is limited in law school, so maximize your study by cutting out time wastes like supplements and outlining.

This doesn't make sense.

Supplements are usually too broad, professors are likely to test you on the specific cases you've read rather than broad legal principles. It's better to hone in on the cases you've read than spend time reading general principles of contract law.

Outlining is just too time consuming in my opinion. If you've taken good notes, just go with those and supplement with outlines prepared by others for the same prof/casebook.

I completely disagree with literally everything you said. But it's all about finding what works for you, I suppose.

[pancakes3]

Let's not pretend profs are proactively trying to teach a curriculum and teach on it. For them, it's getting paid to listen to the sound of their own voice. For students, it's a hyperexpensive game of craps.

I guess on a very base level, theoretically, exams are supposed to be a signal to employers at how well you can take a massive pile of shit and digest it in a 12-15 weeks (3-4 day) period so hopefully they feel comfortable paying you to professionally digest massive piles of shit.

[clshopeful]

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Just my two cents.

[mvp99]

It's important to realize that your time is limited in law school, so maximize your study by cutting out time wastes like supplements and outlining.

This doesn't make sense.

Supplements are usually too broad, professors are likely to test you on the specific cases you've read rather than broad legal principles. It's better to hone in on the cases you've read than spend time reading general principles of contract law.

Outlining is just too time consuming in my opinion. If you've taken good notes, just go with those and supplement with outlines prepared by others for the same prof/casebook.

I completely disagree with literally everything you said. But it's all about finding what works for you, I suppose.

Agree with your comment on outlining. Find someone else's outline from the same prof. make sure it's OK and add to it what you think is missing/make edits so you can learn it (in a sense, make it yours). However, only use it as a checklist. You should be able to look at any page of the outline and immediately talk about whatever is in it at a couple of sentences.

Disagree with the supplement suggestion. If you can't see the forest you better read a supplement now before your dive into any specifics. For the specifics, yes, you should definitely focus on the cases in the syllabus (learn the rule, the material facts and move on).

[EzraFitz]

One tip I have, and it's hard to find the time (or people) to do it with, is to teach your entire outline/the course. I spent hours one day literally teaching my friend an entire course, and now I realize I know 90% of the information off the top of my head. No better way to be sure you know it than to teach it.