Sep 01
The essays of 400 law students taking the New York bar exam were incomplete. reported the New York Law Journal. The problem may be due to a bar exam software glitch.
The NY Board of Law Examiners contracted with Software Secure. Software Secure determined that the software errors occured in response to students toggling between answer tabs during the bar exam. The missing portion of the exams may be recoverable from backups that the software creates on a computer during the exam.
According to the NY Board of Law Examiners, it is still too early to tell if the software problems will cause a delay in grading the July exam, which is scheduled to be completed in November.
Despite these problems, problems taking the bar exam with a computer remain very rare, with most problems eventually being resolved through software reduntancy measures.
Source: New York Law Journal quoted in the Out of the Jungle blog.
Jul 28
Want to wear some law school apparel? It’s not easy to find clothes with a law school theme. But find these shirts and countless others at Cafe Press:
Often, law school apparel is not the most stylish (but as we all know, that isn’t a problem for most law students). But these clothes are funny and interesting, and are sure to amuse family and friends, and maybe make a law school professor smirk when she sees them.
Read the rest of this Law Student article »
Jul 22
Here are some good bar exam tips. Good luck to law students taking the bar exam this week!
Tips for bar exam success:
May 15
Law school isn’t supposed to be about memorization. Unfortunately, most law students encounter at least one closed-book exam that requires memorizing various elements (e.g. criminal law), standards of review (e.g. constitutional law), rules (e.g. property), or other information. Sometimes a student merely wants to memorize a checklist of key issues to spot.
If you are facing a closed-book exam like this, have no fear. The solution is using common memorization tricks that can help you store massive amounts of information, at least, for a few days.
These aren’t late-night television infomercial tricks. And you don’t have to pay for them. These are mnemonic methods frequently taught in bar exam preparation courses.
Just spend 2-3 minutes reviewing the techniques, and select the best one for your law school exam: Mnemonic Techniques and Specific Memory Tricks to Improve Memorization.
Mar 16
Update: For more information about Twitter, I highly recommend Caroline Middlebrook’s Guide to Twitter.
Wondering why everyone’s abuzz about the potential of Twitter? Chris Brogan offers 5 reasons why they’re not crazy. For law school study groups or merely law school friends, this appears to be an efficient new way to get quick answers from friends about a law school assignment or a reading assignment, keep in contact with old family and friends, or stay in touch for after-class socializing. What’s so great about it? Read the rest of this Law Student article »
Jan 13
If you are taking the bar exam, here is a great tip from Legal Andrew: Get a free credit report to assist you in remembering the past 10 years of your personal information (home addresses, etc.). Visit Credit Report Aids with Bar Application for more information.
Jan 04
If you will be taking the bar exam, you may find the new Bar Exam page useful. You can access it from the “Bar Exam” tab at the top of any page at Law Student.
This page is a growing list, so check back occasionally for more useful resources.
A note from a reader:
The exam tips and relevant resources for bar exams can be accessed with as much ease as can be for gmat .Many of the online exams make the content, test samples and online learning resources available on the internet. This is especially true for the exams that can be taken on the coputer, like gre without having to use a paper and pencil. These online means of learning and communicating is the integral part of all online education.
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