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How many hours a day does the average law student spend studying? Or doing course work. Also a week.

tier3 wrote:How many hours a day does the average law student spend studying? Or doing course work. Also a week.

More than they should

zero on weekdays, maybe 3-4 hours on weekends?

Outside of the classroom, 1-2 hours a day. It is still early in 1L year though, I imagine that number changes.

phillywc wrote:Outside of the classroom, 1-2 hours a day. It is still early in 1L year though, I imagine that number changes.

I mean it def depends on relative weight placed on snaps, drinking, TLSing and fbing but I would put it at 3 for sure as a baseline.

For Me It Was:

1L: 4-5 per day.
2L: .5 per day
3L: 0 but I crammed for finals.

1L is the only year your grades really matter (if you are going for big law that is).

Other than spending the half hour before every class skimming the reading assignment, none.

Here, I would honestly say 4-6 a day. It's a lot. Probably really unnecessary but the fear of cold calls and peer pressure make you do dumb shit.

There's like 5 confusing concepts total 1L. Everything beyond that is simple. Practicing for exams is the only worthwhile way to spend time.

There's like 5 confusing concepts total 1L. Everything beyond that is simple. Practicing for exams is the only worthwhile way to spend time.

flawschoolkid wrote:There's like 5 confusing concepts total 1L. Everything beyond that is simple. Practicing for exams is the only worthwhile way to spend time.

what are those 5?

tier3 wrote:How many hours a day does the average law student spend studying? Or doing course work. Also a week.

I'm not a law student, but I know one. Straight A's at the University of Texas at Austin.

He was studying 12-13 hours a day, sometimes more. I saw him all the time glued to textbooks.

Guilo wrote:

tier3 wrote:How many hours a day does the average law student spend studying? Or doing course work. Also a week.

I'm not a law student, but I know one. Straight A's at the University of Texas at Austin.

He was studying 12-13 hours a day, sometimes more. I saw him all the time glued to textbooks.

That just seems absurd.

OP, I normally spend 3-4 hours a day reading/studying/reading supplements right now, probably more as finals approach.

tyang wrote:

flawschoolkid wrote:There's like 5 confusing concepts total 1L. Everything beyond that is simple. Practicing for exams is the only worthwhile way to spend time.

what are those 5?

For me, it was Res Ipsa, Dormant Commerce Clause, Consideration, Supplemental Jurisdiction, and Erie.

1L here. I probably do an average of 3.5 a day 7 days a week in addition to class. I don't think it's overly bad other than when LRW comes along and makes you vacillate between "fucka P/F class" and "must do best" on some long written assignment

flawschoolkid wrote:

tyang wrote:

flawschoolkid wrote:There's like 5 confusing concepts total 1L. Everything beyond that is simple. Practicing for exams is the only worthwhile way to spend time.

what are those 5?

For me, it was Res Ipsa, Dormant Commerce Clause, Consideration, Supplemental Jurisdiction, and Erie.

To me, Res Ipsa sort of just speaks for itself.

Some spend a lot of time studying, some don't.

2L. 20 hours a week including class

Studied 1-2 hours a week first year in addition to going to class. Studied 1-2 hours a week the last three weeks of the semester for the 2nd and 3rd year.

Get a friend on law review and get the good outlines. Some nerd gunning for a clerkship studied plenty for everyone a decade ago.

pancakes3 wrote:

flawschoolkid wrote:

tyang wrote:

flawschoolkid wrote:There's like 5 confusing concepts total 1L. Everything beyond that is simple. Practicing for exams is the only worthwhile way to spend time.

what are those 5?

For me, it was Res Ipsa, Dormant Commerce Clause, Consideration, Supplemental Jurisdiction, and Erie.

To me, Res Ipsa sort of just speaks for itself.

180.

Did anyone else have to learn UCC 2-207? According to Wikipedia, Grant Gilmore called it "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time." Definitely in my top 5 worst 1L topics.

If you google 2-207 there are a bunch of awesome flow charts out there that were really helpful. Reading the statute is a wreck, but seeing it laid out helped a ton.

Also, future interests . . . worst shit ever

Varies pretty drastically...I'm [unfortunately] one of those kids who puts in ~6 hours a day for his own sanity (sounds counterintuitive I know)

But I know kids who just skim the cases and take most of their notes during class.

banjo wrote: Did anyone else have to learn UCC 2-207? According to Wikipedia, Grant Gilmore called it "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time." Definitely in my top 5 worst 1L topics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6-PRwhU7cg

daryldixon wrote:For Me It Was:

1L: 4-5 per day.
2L: .5 per day
3L: 0 but I crammed for finals.

1L is the only year your grades really matter (if you are going for big law that is).

We were pretty close. I was probably 6-7 in 1L, but yeah, it really fell off in 2L (maybe 2H) and 3L was as close to 0 as I could get.

Like on regular basis? Umm I guess I can at least give more than one hour but I general don't do that. You can spend good amount of time for studying during weekends because weekdays are quite hectic.