In college, I had my study process down. I would transcribe everything the professor said in class into a separate word doc for each class. Towards the end of every semester, I would add in important information from the reading and then memorize the entire document. This was my fool proof process for getting an A on a final exam in college. When I got to law school, this process went out the window because I was overwhelmed by all the talk about case briefs, study groups, and other things that I thought I was supposed to be doing. What I eventually learned was that law school is different from being a political science/history major in college, but not completely different. The main differences are that law school requires a command of vastly more material than college every semester, and what you learn from doing the reading and going to class is just the tools to answer exam questions, not the answers themselves. After emerging from my state of confusion 1L year, I gradually created a modified version of my college study process that addressed these key differences. [Read more…] about 4 Steps to Managing Law School Material
