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How to Do Your Best on Law School Exams
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How To Do Your Best on Law School Exams shows you, step-by-step, how to practice and excel at the two core law-exam tasks: spotting issues and resolving them with succinct lawyerly arguments. This popular and widely recommended Book emerged from teaching countless courses and grading thousands of exams over many years at the New York University Law School and at the City University Law School. In building-block detail, it shows you how to practice decoding of the ty… More >>
5 comments
the book will most likely not help you that much in lawschool. ive come 2 find that each professor is nuanced in how they want their exams written and using this book as a catch all method just wont cut it for a lot of classes. it is better than nothing, but i wouldnt read it and think i mastered the mysteries of law school after having done so
Rating: 2 / 5
This book should be REQUIRED for all 1Ls! Delaney offers light at the end of the confusing tunnel.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was invaluable to me. I was able to work throughout the semester in anticiaption of the exams and was very prepared for what I faced at exam time. It is tru that professors DO NOT prepare you in class for the exams and than I credit my good grades with the very concrete and incvaluable advice from Professor Delaney in his book.
It is NOT out of print and is available at johndelaneypub.com.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this book in first year law after enduring my first round of law exams. I didn’t have a lot of time to devote to studying the book so I was pleasantly suprised to find that the book got right down to to the guts of “how” to systematically tackle law exams without a lot of superfluous “fluffy” prose. The examples are clearly formulated and drawn from broad legal concepts and cases that made it easy to understand how to approach not only the exam itself but the preparation leading up to it.
I was concerned that this book wouldn’t be much help as I am in law school in Canada. I was pleasantly suprised, however, that the book was totally applicable. The book provides a multitude of “issue spotting” techniques, as well as how to apply legal principles in lawyerly argument. The book gives clearly detailed examples of good and poor exam answers so that you know what to do and what to avoid on law school exams.
One other note: the book on Amazon indicates a publication date of November 1988 but the version that I received had been updated in 2006. I would highly recommend this book for law students in both Canada and the US.
Rating: 5 / 5
The heading says it all. The book is not a magic wond so just reading it won’t give you awesome grades. However, if you study from the first day of school until the last day of finals and APPLY what the book tells you to do, you will succeed. Great book, awesome ideas…..best investment I made since entering law school.
Rating: 5 / 5
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