Guest Blog by Barry Friedman and John Goldberg Tuesday’s post on practice exams generated some questions to which we think we can usefully respond. First, we should have made clear that no student’s exam answer will be posted on the Open Book website without the informed and express consent of the student. Interestingly, when we […]
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Do Profs Teach What Law School Exams Test?
Guest Blog by Barry Friedman and John Goldberg We’ve been blogging here at the Volokh Conspiracy about law school exams and our new book Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School. In response to a post about how exams mirror law practice, several commentators raised a fair question: do law […]
Law School Practice Exams
John Goldberg & Barry Friedman, guest-blogging Everyone knows the old joke. A guy walking in New York City asks a woman: “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” She responds, “Practice, Practice, Practice.” Practice make perfect. But how are law students supposed to practice for exams? Law students frequently, and often with justification, complain about […]
Why Do Law School Exams Look the Way They Do?
John Goldberg & Barry Friedman, guest-blogging With Halloween comes a scary prospect for law students and law professors alike. Exams! So it seems like a good time to ask: why do law school exams still center around issue-spotting questions? It certainly isn’t for the good of professors. As the saying goes: “They don’t pay me […]