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Law School Curves: Part 5 – Wrapping Up

by John on December 3, 2009

in Law School

I have to start this off with a confession. When I wrote the initial part of this series, I mentioned something to effect of deciding how much you would study for a class based on what the curve looked like. That advice is probably a bad idea. More important than dictating how you spend your [...]

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Law School Curves, Part 4: The Test

by John on November 30, 2009

in Law School

This is the fourth in a series on law school curves. Read part three here. The quality of the class and the students can tell you a lot about how closely a curve is going to track the published number or the historical record. But for my money, the best predictor of how a curve [...]

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Law School Curves, Part 3: The Classes

by John on November 29, 2009

in Law School

This is the third in a series of posts on law school curves. Read part two here. Let’s return to the original quote that kicked this off: During my run, I realized that I am only irritable in my easy classes. The problem I have with easy classes is the curve. Easy classes mean arbitrary [...]

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This is the second in a series about law school curves. Read part one here. Yesterday in the first part of this series, I took a look at just the curve itself and what it might mean when you approach finals. The gist is that when a class is on the high end of the [...]

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On Law School Curves, Part One

by John on November 24, 2009

in Law School

Thanksgiving is a stressful time for many people, but especially for law students. Thanksgiving for most people starts a month or so of excessive spending, excessive eating, and excessive time with people we really don’t care for, medicated by excessive alcohol. For law students, it means the start of finals, which means excessive work, excessive [...]

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