Organizing Your Answer

Organizing Your Answer

Now that you’ve understood the facts and spotted the issues, learn how spending a few minutes outlining and organizing your answer before you write can pay dividends and save you lots of time when you start writing.

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Welcome to Pre-Writing Part 3: Organizing Your Answer! This lesson will show you how to maximize points by structuring your answer before you start writing.

I. The Importance of Organizing Your Answer

Unfortunately, many students skip this crucial step. The exam-day time pressure is so intense that some students start writing immediately after, or worse yet, before they’ve read the fact pattern and question prompts. This impulse will intensify once you hear other students clacking away at their...

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