Time management tips for law school exams?
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Q&A: Time management tips for law school exams?
My boyfriend knows all of the information, but on his law school exams, he spends too much time on multiple choice questions. Does anyone have “been there-done that” tips for time management on these exams? He only had 15 minutes left to write his essay on his practice midterm today!
Thanks for any help you can give?
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Answer by daaaave
Being able to spot issues as quickly as possible is how you score well on a law school exam, this is usually the best way to do well on multiple choice questions.
After reading the question you need to stop and think for a second. Ask yourself, “what legal issues that we have disscussed this semester arise from this set of facts?” Usually multiple choice questions are based on cases that were read during the semesters with some of the facts being tweaked to test your knowledge of the rule. In that regard, try to think of a case that is similar to the question. if you can think of one try to distinguish it from the facts of the multiple choice question. Then try to think how the rule would treat this set of facts. What was the key fact in the courts holding in the case you read, is that fact also present in the facts of the MC question?
The best way to improve is practice. I usually buy a Q and A book for each one of my classes that has a multiple choice component to the exam. These are helpful because it ferrets out some of the nuances of the rules. Practice is the only way to improve upon speed.
Remember to manage your time. If the essay is worth significantly more, start there then go the MC section.
Good luck.
Answer by modoodoo76
With multiple choice, the best thing he can do is practice. There are a lot of sources for practice questions (i.e. Q&A books, MBE study guides), all of which should be available in his school’s library. He might want to talk to his professors to see which ones they would recommend.
He needs to be able to eliminate the wrong answers first. The best way to do this is to read the call of the question (i.e. the question posed at the end of the scenario), then read the answer choices. At that point, one (maybe two) will pop out as just plain wrong (e.g. the answer mistates the law). Then, read the problem. Having an idea of what to look for in the problem reduces the need to go back through it again. That’s the biggest piece of advice.
However, in order to do this well, he needs to practice. By that I don’t just mean “do a lot of problems”. He needs to do them under timed conditions (something approximating the time he will have on the exam).
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