A “Fun” Law Exam?

By: Contributor · January 4, 2010 · Filed Under Law School · 2 Comments 

Howard Wasserman asks,

Can students enjoy exams just a little bit and is there ahything we can do to help? Or is an exam always an uncomfortable medical procedure and any effort to make it otherwise merely detracts from the seriousness of the exam itself?

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2 Responses to “A “Fun” Law Exam?”

  1. Dave Meagher on January 8th, 2010 12:44 am

    I actually enjoy writing law school exams. It’s stressful, but halfway through i (thus far) realize that I more-or-less know what i’m doing and i finish and then drink post-exam beers, which are unfailingly the best tasting beers ever.

    I actually kind of hate it when profs try to make the situations funny or cute. I feel like I’ve put a lot of work into learning the material and it bugs me when the exam comes off as some sort of joke- it’s distracting and annoying. If you are writing and exam, I think I appreciate a well though out question which invites discussion and thought and relates to the material in the class nicely.

  2. John Magyar on January 9th, 2010 8:19 am

    I have no feelings of enjoyment or pleasure with respect to exams. It’s worse than a root canal every time. As a coping mechanism, I remind myself that it only happens twice a year for 3 short years. (I will live in denial of the bar exams … that’s a horror beyond Stephen King’s imagination.)

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