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When is the Best Time to Start Outlining Your Law School Courses?

February 16, 2017 By Deborah Rummelhart 2 Comments

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The best time to start outlining your law school courses is when your law professors completes discussion in class of the first topic listed on the syllabus. Usually, this occurs sometime between the third and fourth week of law school.

What if the class syllabus does not contain topics, only page numbers for reading? In that case, look at the detailed table of contents in your casebook. When your professor has finished covering a topic listed in your casebook, it is time to start outlining.

Why not just wait until the end of your course or the second half of the course to start outlining? Three reasons.  [Read more…] about When is the Best Time to Start Outlining Your Law School Courses?

Five Ways to Set Yourself Up For Success on Law School Exams

December 6, 2016 By Deborah Rummelhart Leave a Comment

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Most law students are aware that outlining their courses and taking and getting feedback on practice exams are vital to ensuring that they perform to the best of their ability on law school exams.  What law students may not be aware of is that there are other things just as vital that they can do to maximize their chances of doing well on law school exams.  [Read more…] about Five Ways to Set Yourself Up For Success on Law School Exams

What Your Law School Midterms Can Tell You

November 2, 2016 By Deborah Rummelhart Leave a Comment

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Your law school midterms are a great diagnostic tool to measure how well your legal analysis skills are developing.  Your midterms can tell you how well (or poorly) you are doing at issue spotting, how well (or poorly) you know the legal rules in a particular area, how well (or poorly) you understand how the legal rules fit together to form a united body of law, and how well (or poorly) you can perform a legal analysis of a factual situation and reach a well thought out legal conclusion. [Read more…] about What Your Law School Midterms Can Tell You

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