Strategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student: Maximize Your Grades

by Steven L. Emanuel

Overview

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Strategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student gives you a detailed, step-by-step program for surviving the first year of law school.

• Note-taking—Sharpening your note-taking skills will maximize your study time and improve your grades
• Your law professor's personality—Understanding it can be to your advantage
• Study traps—What are they and how to avoid them
• Memory aids—How classic memory systems work and when you should (and shouldn't) use them
• The pressures of law school—Effective techniques for handling the pressure from classmates, professors, and reading assignments
• Taking exams—Nine steps to writing exceptional exam answers
• The Internet—Useful search engines and websites

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735591073
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	07/07/2010
Series:	Strategies & Tactics Series
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Mind-Set of Success
Chapter 3. Drawing a Bead on Your Professor
Chapter 4. Studying and Class Preparation
Chapter 5. Note-Taking and the Classroom Experience
Chapter 6. Outlining
Chapter 7. Test Preparation
Chapter 8. Test-Taking