Yeah – I don’t normally have a lot of advice for other law students, mostly because I’m a terrible example and the best thing I can tell you to do is – whatever I did – do the opposite. This advice only extends so far as making good grades are concerned – I have to confess I’m probably happier than most people in law school, and have had a lot of fun.
Regardless, if I could go back and do my first year finals over again, I would do lots and lots of practice exams. Now, I didn’t do lots of practice exams – mostly because I barely made it through the material once – and didn’t have time to be overachieving with practice exams.
But in my experience with all tests – especially law school exams, practice exams help.
You really don’t even have to take them. Read them. Read the questions and read the model answers. And if that doesn’t scare you enough to keep you up all night, then you are a lost cause. And remember – the model answer? Yeah – one person wrote that. He got an A++++. Yours doesn’t have to be that great. But it will at least give you a good idea.
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