Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School

Features:

• High-profile, experienced authors from elite schools with hands-on experience teaching the majority of the courses in the traditional 1L curriculum
• Distinctive central pedagogy: the pinball method of exam-taking
• Accompanied by Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers).
• Explains to students not just the how but the why of law school exams what makes law school exams different from exams students have encountered in other settings
• Detailed examples provide concrete demonstrations of exam-taking techniques
• Highly readable: prose is straightforward and humorous; key points accented with memorably amusing illustrations Not just an exam prep book; students are offered guidance on getting the most out of classes, and law school more generally