uh-oh

Suddenly Edie has become one of the scariest exam preparation experiences I've had so far in law school.

This is Professor Edie's first time teaching the class; obviously, no old exams of his are available for practice. He thoughtfully recommended a selection of practice exam questions from previous Edie professors, which should at least be useful to bone up on how an Edie question actually gets answered (even if the questions at issue are easier ones than Professor Edie is known to pose). The only problem is that none of these old exams is furnished with an answer.

This was the problem I had with Torts last semester: I did an astonishing number of practice exams, on which I apparently taught myself to make the same mistake consistently. One good A answer would have straightened me out. None were provided, and I wound up paying the price in my grade. And Professor Torts was reputed to be a generous grader. Professor Edie shares no such reputation.

I've also come to rely on student answers as teaching tools -- not so much for the material, although they can be helpful there too, as for test-taking techniques. What do Edie professors want to hear? In what order, and to what extent? What facts flag which particular issues? It gives me the jitters that I still don't know, have no real way of finding out, and the exam is tomorrow.

The good news is that we're all in the same boat. Or maybe that's the bad news.

UPDATE: Turns out we're not utterly without sample answers, for what it's worth; three questions include them. Still, I really need to calm down...this is entirely too unnerving...

thus spake /jca @ May 7, 2003 11:28 AM