The 2 Keys to Acing Law School
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★ 2 Keys for acing law school: master the law and master the test (aka master law essays).
If you're a law student, you might think you're in law school, but actually you're in essay school. That's because almost all of your final grades will be based on issue-spotting-exam essays. So what are the things that you need to do in order to ace your issue-spotting-essay exams?
Well I think there are two things that you should do. The first and most obvious thing that you can do in law school is master the law.
The second thing that you have to do in order to ace you law school exam is the thing that so few people do. And that's that this: you have to master the test. You'll get better the more you do it and there are strategies that will allow you to learn how to do it faster. The worst thing that you can possibly do in law school is to never take a practice test until the day of your first final exam.
Just like the LSAT you can learn the strategies and get better over time. But only if you practice. For a lot of people, perfect is the enemy of good and they keep trying to get perfect at knowing the substantive law without even trying to learn the basics of writing issue-spotting exams. As a result they never learn how to spot the issues and they never learn how to write those good essays, the ones that will get A's on the exam.
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Very true, I started practicing from previous exams in my first year and was able to issue spot like a pro. Now as a 2L writing essays is easy and my brain automatically structures the essays when I spot issues. Take notes 1L’s
Okay. Let me just do that 😹
I didn't do well during my 1L year. I think it was partly because I underestimated my peers. One of the most important lessons I learned after law school was how smart, driven, and competitive everyone actually was - it was humbling. I also didn't do enough practice exams before the final exam. I think I overestimated my ability, which was a mistake.
Sorry idk if you will see this any tips you recommend?
What he talks about is something I was already doing, without being cognizant of it. It makes perfect sense. This guy nails it.
Glad to hear it! Some people understand intuitively but most of us need to learn the system before we can hack it.
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I been in law school for a year, here's how I answer problem scenario questions:
- Identify issues (i.e. john hits lily with his car)
- Put a name on that issue (what claim is it, what crime has been committed if any?)
- Identify prima facie requirements of whatever claim you think you identified
- Identify liability with maybe causation
- If it's criminal, are the actus reus and mens rea satisfied?
- Cite rules and similar cases. Even if it's just in passing, if you say something that is relevant to a different case, just footnote it. If the word count doesn't account for footnotes, literally cite as many cases as you can, especially if the course relies heavily on case law instead of legislation.
- Identify sentencing.
0:40 - Key N°1 - Master the law
1:35 - Key N°2 - Master the test
Many law schools are giving multiple choice finals, especially for 1Ls!
It's all up to the professor. Grading issue spotting exams takes a lot of time. As a result, some professors have combo essay/MC exams. You see multiple choice much more frequently in upper level classes. It is extremely rare for a 1L class to be 100% multiple choice. Almost every 1L professor relies on issue spotting essays.
Jacob Moghimi I don’t know how Law School works in the US, but at Copenhagen University, we are only taking 4 hours case-solving exams, also on the first year.
I’ve never heard of anyone taking multiple choice test at Law school. They want to test your skills at solving cases and real issues.
However, I think @LegalEagle analysis is spot on. You cannot circumvent the reading by taking test exams, but you can train your skills at finding and addressing the legal issues and indeed also how to solve them.
I was one of the very few who got a first class mark, which is equivalent to an A+, in tort. It is a quite hard class and the grade point average was only (what would be equal to) a C.
My way of studying for an exam is to do all the former exams which have been uploaded. They will show my weaknesses and thus those chapters I will need to reread carefully.
I just finished 1L and all we did for finals is issue spotting
That sounds like it would be from schools where the 25% LSAT average is 122
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Will you please teach us how to take and write a law school exam ?!
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Thanks very much!
Thank you for the informative videos
Makes a ton of sense. Thanks
Excuse the ignorant question, I'm going into my first year at law school this coming fall. But where can we find these practice exams?
I second this question
Any answeres pls 🥴
That's an opportunity for your to interact with 2nd-year and 3rd-year law students. Some law schools have repositories where all exams are stored for future reference just ask the librarian for guidance.
quimbee, barbri, or just google them
If I do practice exams, how do I know if I'm correct or not?
If you've ever watched the 70's movie the paper chase you notice how the tutor tries to teach the student who fails all the practice exams. He says notes don't mean a thing and he gives the guy a classic issue spotting exam and attempts to help him go over it. I just hope that as a History/Classical Civilization major as an undergrad gives me the ability to read enough to take a good shot at law school. Of course, it helps that I love to read, research and write already. Also, just ask my ex's, I love to be technically right about everything. LOL
did someone ask?
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What about the "Paper Chase" television series? "1L" by Scott Turow is a similar book. Yes, "Legally Blonde" I liked the iBook(Tangerine) and John Grisham's "The Rooster Bar" These are inspiring videos and books.
Thank you for sharing
“learning how to take a law school essay exam is not a dark art”
i call BS
I dont get why we have to study 4 yrs of college before law school?
Like how much time do I waste just being in school?
And then in law school you don't even learn laws 😂
Can you make a video on procrastinating when it comes to studying? Im not in law school just need tips for undergrad, thank you.
In the words of Nike, “Just Do It”
Isn't it "to ace* law school" ??
I did hella practice questions and did not do well while my tutor learnt the law and did few practice questions and did really well
How do you get practice exams? Other class mates? Some exam bank out there?
LISTEN TO YOUR PROFESSOR. Listen to the small notes they make in class that make the legal language make sense. It seems obvious, but most people I know don’t do this. WRITE DOWN THE SMALL THINGS THAT MAKE THINGS MAKE SENSE AND PUT THEM IN YOUR OUTLINE!!!
What's your advice for succeeding in exams if your law school doesn't provide practice exams?
1. Ask people from the higher grade if they still keep theirs.
2. Ask classmates, chances are some of the more social ones have already done the first point.
3. Ask the professor about the format of the exam and search for similar on these classes online (even sometimes the same textbooks is possible).
In general, whatever practice exam you can do, is already better. Of course as close as possible is best but the idea is that gathering the knowledge (summarizing, reading etc.) is a completely different skill and TASK than applying this knowledge in practical terms. And I speak from experience. It applies to most disciplinenes of higher education because they want to test your ability to analyze and process information not just retain it like in highschool. And that's especially even more relevant for lawschool.
Thanks!
Thanksss sooo much
Need your help on law school
As a rule, can you type those essays? my handwriting is terrible.
yes
I'm conflicted. My typing speed is god awful and i can write really fast.
But my handwriting is absolutely abysmal
@@bothi00 - Learn. To. Type. I'm pretty sure, maybe someone can back me up on this or correct me on it, that improving typing is easier than improving handwriting.
Please help 😢😢
any recommendable sources for law practice tests?
Learn there 's how to he a lawyer
How to do well in school. Step 1 know all the material. Step 2 do good on tests. There I saved you the video.
that's really what you took from this?
I am theres
How many years is law school?
2 days
3
A+
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Most of this video is you talking without saying anything, most of your videos are great but this video is just you restating the same basic facts over and over again.