Practice Makes Prepared: Discussions in Law School Success

This podcast explains the difference between case briefing, class note-taking, smaller writing assignments, and exam essay-writing. It’s a podcast that emphasizes exam strategy as beginning early with practice exam-writing, offers encouragement and thought exercises on overcoming self-resistance to practice, and describes how to use practice as a tool to conquer “freezing” on finals.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the podcast, the student will be able to:

1. Explain some differences between exam writing and all other writing done in law school.
2. Use their experience in practicing exams as preparation for the final exam.