The good news is I did a sample exam question over the weekend and did ok with it. It didn't make me feel like law school exams will be some hopeless morass of despondency.

The bad news is though professors have been at pains to put anxious minds at ease by reminding them "the exam is open book!", that is true only nominally during a 3-hr exam. If you had a week-long take home exam, you could get some value out of the books.

But it was clear to me taking the sample exam that you just don't have time to be flipping through casebooks or supplements. A lean & mean outline will help, but people who can access the material from memory will have a clear advantage, as one of the most common complaints of the law school exam taker is "I ran out of time".

29 Nov 04