Academic Success

Law School and Exams combines clear and comprehensive explanations of study and exam techniques, illustrative samples that are truly instructive, and twenty exercises on everything from case briefs to essay and multiple-choice exam questions.

Strategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student gives you a detailed, step-by-step program for surviving the first year of law school, with sections on note-taking, study traps, memory aids, and a nine-step guide to writing exceptional exam answers.

Essay exams don't have to be a mystery. With its wealth of visual aids, examples, and practical advice, Dernbach's concise guide enables law school students to develop the strong essay-writing skills they need to succeed and feel confident taking exams.

Getting to Maybe has been the best-selling book on law exams since its original publication in 1999. It avoids abstruse lectures and instead offers a clear, readable, and often humorous guide to how lawyers deploy legal reasoning in real-world disputes and how law professors test such disputes—and the reasoning required to resolve them—on law exams.

This book offers a concise and practical strategy that reduces the exam format to a series of repeatable steps. It also teaches students how to prepare for exams, instead of preparing for class, with proven time-management and outlining techniques.

Written for every law student who ever wondered how to get better grades in law school, How to Write Law Exams: IRAC Perfected provides students of all levels with a detailed, comprehensive, and practical guide to success on law school exams.

This Nutshell answers questions students have as they begin their studies and also explains and gives examples of the best methods for studying and for taking exams. It provides questions and model answers from actual law school exams.

Mastering the Law School Exam is designed to provide students with a knowledgeable, reasonable, and rational voice to navigate the intricacies of law school exams. This book's emphasis is on providing the type of detailed examples necessary to show students precisely "how to do it" and "how to write it."