An exceptional student is a person who has excellent study habits and who achieve his or her grade through application of those study habits. • • Many law...
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Read Efficiently • • Reading can be very passive. Active reading improves performance. • • What do you do if you just don't get it. –Keep a Parking...
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Attending class is important even if it does not directly affect Grade • • Gives idea on Exam Coverage • • Helps encode into memory • • Helps...
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Written briefs of cases help prepare for me for class and are an essential skill for exams I am skill building and written briefs are important. • • Helps...
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May be called upon to participate so need to be prepared as possible to participate when called on. Effectiveness depends on learning style. One of two ways to...
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On Exam Need to: – Write like a lawyer –Sound like a lawyer –Analyze the Law • • But. . . thinking process not different from other thinking process ...
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Benefits: • cementing information in your mind • help you see the whole scheme of the course • create a decision making procedure for problem solving •...
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Grades do not affect my worth and value as a human being, but they do affect my job prospects because they prove my value as a knowledge worker to prospective...
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Improve your reading speed and comprehension.You will have between 15-30 pages per credit hour of very complex reading. That means that you will be reading...
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Knowledge of Specifics - Terminology ie required words and phrases, meanings - Rules and principles ie required rules, elements, standards, tests - Facts and...
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Involves learning basic legal terminology - meaning and content - definitions of terminology Essential to sounding like a lawyer May not tested directly but...
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Fundamental rules and propositions in each course - Memorising and Stating definition/formulation of each rule, proposition or principle that can apply in a...
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Specific info that may not be directly tested but gives context to other knowledge Example – Number of peremptory challenges in a capital case – – Year...
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Apr 20, 2006 5:44 pm
Knowledge of How Specific Information is Used or Organized in areas of law Categorising info within decision making / problem solving schema - What type of...
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Apr 20, 2006 6:34 pm
Learning knowledge of analytical criteria / reasoning concepts used for issue resolution is a precondition for effective exam problem solving, legal decision...
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Apr 20, 2006 6:48 pm
Learning policy objectives and their rationales is needed for advanced problem solving, critiquing legal solutions to issues, designing new solutions to...
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Apr 21, 2006 6:25 am
Some info in readings and class is useful for predicting trends and tendencies in legal decision making by courts, legislators and administrators. Learning...
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Apr 21, 2006 6:47 am
. . . Basic knowledge is generally presumed to exist at the time of an exam, regardless of whether the desired information has been made accessible or whether...
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Legal problem solving, decision making, and procedures are carried out in established and sometimes required ways. Som info from readings and class will teach...
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General Procedure for understanding knowledge: - Mental capacity to use information not just memorise it - Involves both comprehension and application -...
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Proceduure to Interpret: - Able to determine the meaning of unfamiliar or new statements related to principles, rules and policies studied - Interrogating the...
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Procedure to paraphrase: - Restate or paraphrase a concept, argument, principle or rule in own words Example –State a case holding –Summarize the arguments...
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Procedure for application: - Apply stored information to new situations - Relate known conceptual categories to elements of new information - Break down new...
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Compare and contrast procedure is used in resolution of word & phrases meaning ambiguity, distinguishing fact patterns, distinguishing reasoning arguments,...
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Apr 21, 2006 9:45 am
Some info in readings and class will help me Predict the outcome if certain arguments are put to a decision maker about a case, and how the law will develop or...
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Apr 21, 2006 10:17 am
Class participation procedure involves more praphrasing and interpertation whereas Exam writing skills require more application, compare contrast, prediction. ...
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An issue is something that two well informed creative lawyers would fight about ("legitimate point of controversy"). Resolving the issue requires knowing and...
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Outcome: Problem solving is required to write exam answers, and give clients advice on how the law can aid them resolve their problems. Issue spotting involves...
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Outcome: Social Judgment in decision making is used to give client centred advice, and consider the consequences of all legal strategies and remedies for the...
