Exams are right around the corner (where the weekend = the corner). I have Copyright Wednesday, another corner, and then Evidence and Administrative Law next Wednesday and Thursday. For those unfamiliar with law school exams, here are a couple things I was surprised to find out last year:
The exam is 100% of one’s grade. This makes the question, “How did you do in that class?” the equivalent of “What grade did you get on the exam?”
You can type your exams in law school! This doesn’t mean, however, that you can bring a computer to the exam (though I’ve heard of some schools providing special software for exam taking). At BU at least, you must provide your own typewriter. The typists take the exam in a separate (and much noisier) typing room.
Generally, law school exams are open-book. Often you can bring in your own notes too. This makes things easier.
There’s almost always a curve. At BU at least, most professors are bound by the school to enforce a rigid grade distribution. Thus there is no such thing as an entire class doing well or poor, and statements made to the entire school such as, “good luck on exams” or “grades are important to employers, so study hard” are empty, meaningless statements.
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