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Getting To Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams
enlarge	Authors: Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy Paul Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$25.00~~ Buy Used: $14.95 You Save: $10.05 (40%) New (14) Used (20) from $14.95 Avg. Customer Rating: 51 reviews Sales Rank: 2036 Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 348 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1 Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 ISBN: 0890897603 Dewey Decimal Number: 340.076 EAN: 9780890897607 ASIN: 0890897603 Publication Date: May 26, 1999 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Shrink wrapped but had creasing and quarter size hole in back cover. perfectly usable if you don;t mind the scuffing and creasing

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Professors Fischl and Paul explain law school exams in ways no one has before, all with an eye toward improving the reader's performance. The book begins by describing the difference between educational cultures that praise students for "right answers," and the law school culture that rewards nuanced analysis of ambiguous situations in which more than one approach may be correct. Enormous care is devoted to explaining precisely how and why legal analysis frequently produces such perplexing situations. But the authors don't stop with mere description. Instead, Getting to Maybe teaches how to excel on law school exams by showing the reader how legal analysis can be brought to bear on examination problems. The book contains hints on studying and preparation that go well beyond conventional advice. The authors also illustrate how to argue both sides of a legal issue without appearing wishy-washy or indecisive. Above all, the book explains why exam questions may generate feelings of uncertainty or doubt about correct legal outcomes and how the student can turn these feelings to his or her advantage. In sum, although the authors believe that no exam guide can substitute for a firm grasp of substantive material, readers who devote the necessary time to learning the law will find this book an invaluable guide to translating learning into better exam performance.

Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews... Must read for law students August 4, 2008 Reading this book took a huge weight off my shoulders before law school. This book is a crash course not only in how to succeed in law school, but also how to think about the law as a whole. The lessons learned here are designed to frame your legal education, and helps you learn a surefire, if not complex, method to taking all law exams and tacking legal problems. Useful and worthwhile June 22, 2008 I found this book very helpful in understanding features of law school that are important there but not necessarily taught there. It also is done in an interesting way, so that it's not just a completely practical guide to exams. It is practical, but it's got some intellectual content, too. Worthwhile for the law student. Good for a 1L May 5, 2008 I had Fischl for Contracts at UM a few years ago and highly recommend it if you find yourself in a similar position. The examples are pretty close to the type of questions he and other law school professors ask on exams. Think of this book as a Princeton Review type lesson on how to master the test not the material. It does a good job breaking down the different types of issue spotters etc and is helpful for those with no exam experience. I recommend it to my 1L friends (the ones I couldn't talk out of going to law school. 4 stars only because even knowing what to expect didn't help my grade in his class! Gives a decent head start but it didn't and shouldn't have any impact on grades March 12, 2008 7 out of 14 found this review helpful Reading this book before school started had the benefit of getting me thinking about law and legal analysis. But it had no impact on my grades (I'm at or near the top of my class in all subjects and top overall). More importantly, it SHOULDN'T have any impact on one's grades. Attending the lectures, reading the cases, preparing your own outline, participating in class and seeking help from the professor when necesssary; THESE are the vital steps for success in law school. I gave up using commercial aids for one crucial reason: they distracted me from getting inside the head of the professor and really grasping the nature of the topic. People who try to take artificial shortcuts like using a commercial aid will never excel. If their intellect cannot naturally expedite the studying process, how could a quick summary give someone that special, incisive grasp of a topic? In such a case one would be better off doing all the assigned tasks properly and methodically. Disagree with me at your peril! To be fair, after reading this book, I was able to provide some clever answers in class during my first month at school. After that, I was so involved and interested in the assigned materials, I long surpassed what this book could offer. Thank you Professors Fischl and Paul December 11, 2007 What a great book. I'm just sorry that I didn't discover it until my 2L year. I feel so much more prepared for exams this year, thanks to the great advice and information in this book. I plan to give my copy to the student services library when I leave law school, because I think every single 1L should read it!

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