Reddit reviews How to Do Your Best on Law School Exams

If you want to torture yourself voluntarily before the actual work begins, which is a really dumb idea, go on Amazon.com and buy the Dressler and Freer supplements and read away. You don't need to pay some assholes $1,295 to tell you a bunch of stuff you won't be able to remember by the time final exams roll around in December.

But if you really are determined to torture yourself, I'll give you what you need for free. Here is their curriculum.

First, case briefing. Just buy this book. It has six cases, and model briefs at the end. It's not a hard concept.

Second, time management. Follow the syllabus. Read supplements as well if you like.

Third, outlining. Do what works for you. No one can tell you what will work for you. Use the outline bank on this website if you want to see examples.

Fourth, surviving the Socratic method. There is nothing to survive. You go to lectures. Professors talk. Overconfident kids blurt out wrong answers. Professors slowly explain why they are wrong. Don't be the overconfident kid blurting out wrong answers.

Fifth, note-taking and studying. Same as outlining.

Sixth, thinking like a professor. This is an obtuse way of saying exam writing. Read this book and this book. Then make sure to do a lot of practice exams before the real exam, and review model answers to those exams.

So about $60 on Amazon is a better deal than $1300 to these guys.

I found this book on law exams to be very helpful, but it's really more of a 0L book; not sure there is anything in it you won't already know after 1L. I agree with others that taking as many practice exams as possible is the way to go.

But now that you're a 2L, if exams are a weakness, you can definitely load up on classes that don't require them. You can earn a lot of credits in clinics and seminars.