Catching Up When You're Behind

Catching Up When You're Behind

Learn fast, efficient study techniques to regain lost ground if you’ve fallen behind on your studies.

Transcript

Welcome to Catching up When You’re Behind! If you haven’t watched the previous lessons in this chapter, we recommend doing so before proceeding. 

What if you find yourself close to exam season, having fallen behind on your studies and outlining? Time is scarce now, and you have none to waste blaming yourself for falling behind. That accomplishes nothing. Instead, pick yourself up, and forge ahead. 

To help you do that, this lesson identifies five stages of falling behind, which we’ll...

Lessons

1. Introduction
  • Welcome to Acing Your Law Exam
2. Preparing from Day One
  • The Preparation Marathon
  • The Five Traits of Highly Successful Law Students
  • Reading Cases like a Rock Star
  • Briefing Cases Efficiently
  • Using Class Time Effectively
  • Outlining to Win
  • Catching Up When You're Behind
3. Knowing What to Expect and Keeping Your Focus
  • Common Essay Questions
  • Demystifying the Curve
  • Surviving Exam Season
  • Exam Aftermath: The Final Hurdle
  • Looking Back to Move Ahead
4. Exam Day Strategies
  • Budgeting Your Exam Time Wisely
  • Understanding the Questions and Facts
  • Spotting the Issues
  • Organizing Your Answer
5. Writing Winning Essay Answers
  • The Professor's Expectations
  • The CREAC Format
  • Winning Applications
  • What to Do When You Don't Know
6. Handling Unusual Exam Formats
  • Multiple-Choice Questions (Part 1)
  • Multiple-Choice Questions (Part 2)
  • True-False Questions
  • Open-Book and Take-Home Exams