Are you looking for advice on how to approach law school final exams? You’ve come to the right place! We have written dozens of blog posts offering our best advice. In this post, we organize and link to our best law school final exams posts so that you can easily find what you are looking for!
Final exams in law school can be scary, especially if you get professors who like to give long-winded essay questions. A fact pattern that is paragraphs and paragraphs long is very intimidating! Having the right approach is essential to your success – and the most efficient approach is to use IRAC on law school exams. You’ve probably been taught IRAC (issue, rule, analysis, conclusion) in your classes, and now is your chance to put it into practice! In this post, we tell you how to use IRAC on law school exams.
As the end of the semester approaches, students begin to search for law school final exam strategies. Law school exams are very intense, but the right approach can certainly give you an advantage! In this post we give you five law school final exam strategies to help you prepare!
Law School Final Exam Tips for ProcrastinatorsThis post assumes that you taking law school final exams soon — and that you have not started outlining, memorizing the law, or taking practice exams. You either spent most of the semester reading cases, briefing cases, or trying to avoid thinking about final exams. And now that final exams are coming up, you need some quick tips to boost your score! Here are a few law school final exam tips for procrastinators. Read more
One of the best ways to prepare for law school exams is to take practice exams well ahead of the exam! This allows you to get a feel for the types of questions that could appear and how you should go about responding. Here, we tell you where to find law school practice exams.
As law school kicks into full gear, hopefully you are starting to fall into a routine. It can take a while to adjust to this new experience, however, so don’t be discouraged if you are having a difficult time finding your way. In this post, we discuss four law school success tips. If you work this advice into your approach, you’ll be on the path to a great semester of law school (and beyond!).
How I got A+’s in 55% of my law school classes. An A+ is fun to get. Especially in law school, where A+’s are so rare. At my school (and I think at virtually every law school though I have not verified this) an A+ has no special effect on your GPA. So a plain old “A” is treated the same as an “A+” for GPA purposes. And class ranking purposes. And everything that matters, outside of your own ego! Read more
With law school final exams around the corner, we have many students asking us about the best way to study for law school exams. In this post, I (Ashley Heidemann) give you tips that helped me graduate as the #1 law student in my class of over 200 students. Read more
How to Pre-Write Law School Exam AnswersMany of our law students ask us if they can pre-write law school exam answers — or have “canned” law school exam answers ready for their exam. The answer to that question is both yes and no. Read more
5 Tips to Perfect Timing on Law School ExamsMany students fear running out of time on law school exams–and for a good reason! Law school exams are often lengthy and you are expected to do a lot in a short period of time! Here are our 5 top tips to perfect timing on law school exams. Read more
It’s no secret that your grades in your first year of law school are very important and that the final exam comprises most of your grade. Thus, you should take studying for finals very seriously! But even if you didn’t do well on your first-year law school exams, it doesn’t mean you can’t recover and improve moving forward! Doing poorly is an excellent wake-up call, an indication that something didn’t work right. In this post, we give you a few tips of what you can do if you didn’t do well on your first-year law school exams! Modifying your approach with these tips will give you a better chance at success next semester!
In this YouTube video, we tell you not only how to pass law school exams, but how to conquer them. We give you three time-tested methods to make sure you are on track to pass your law school exam with flying colors.
JD Advising’s law school one-sheets can provide a great review of the black letter law prior to taking your final exam. Each of the law school one-sheets contain the black letter law for the subject in one page, front and back, plus important cases. There are two one-sheets that are not about the law, but instead on tips to excel in law school!
A 5-Minute Read on How to Conquer Law School Final ExamsLooking for a strategy to conquer your law school final exams? Here, we tell you exactly what to do – and what not to do – in a quick, five minute read. I (Ashley Heidemann) graduated as the #1 law student in my class of 203 students in 2011. I attribute it to having a great law school final exam strategy, which I will share with you here! Read more
Should I Study the Day of a Law School Exam? It can be very tempting to want to wake up early the morning of an exam to get a few last hours of studying in. Try to resist this temptation! It is not usually a good idea to study the day of a law school exam. There are better things you could be doing with your time in those last remaining hours. You are likely going to feel stressed and overwhelmed that day (perfectly normal!), but you don’t want to do anything that could add to that. If you’re feeling panicky and trying to frantically review the information you probably already know, you risk unnecessarily confusing yourself. You don’t want to risk altering what your brain has already stored correctly. Trust yourself and the studying that you have already done!
