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 enlarge | Authors: Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy Paul
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 348
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0890897603
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.076
EAN: 9780890897607
ASIN: 0890897603
Publication Date: May 26, 1999
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 When's the best time to read? May 20, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was a good book, but I kept trying to figure out exactly when it should be read.
I'm starting law school in the fall, so I'm trying to do what prep I can over the summer. Much of this book was understandable for someone who hasn't actually started law school, but there were some concepts that are based on information that you learn in your 1L year. Since this book has tips for preparing for exams ahead of time, it wouldn't make sense to read during the semester (and who would have time, anyway?). In a revision, I would suggest that the authors tune the content slightly to be absorbed more easily by someone who has not started law school yet.
 An essential tool for law students March 20, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a law professor at the oldest night law school in San Francisco who has struggled for years to communicate to my stdents how to prepare for exams. I wish someone had told me about this book years ago. It explains cogently and distinctly why law school exams are different than those exams you did so well on in college (or you wouldn't be in law school) and why you need to start thinking differently. The book goes through the different types of questions one mught find on an exam and shows how to address them. It also provides numerous tips on how to study and how to approach exam writing. The book also does a great job of explaining a theme I have pushed for years --- that exam-writing skills are really the writing and thinking skills students will need when they become lawyers. It should be required reading in law schools. And it wouldn't hurt law professors to read the book either.
 GREAT information, but dense March 8, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is not a book for fast help. It is a great book to use before you anywhere near a time crunch!!!
 Not worth it January 9, 2007
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is full of common sense info. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't buy this book.
A Book Worth Your Time January 3, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I started my first year at law school with the impression--the conviction!--that someone was going to take time out of his/her lecture schedule to teach us how to write law school exams. This, of course, never happened and, after bungling through a practice midterm with a slipshod IRAC, I decided to seek some advice. My law school's academic preparation (resuscitation?) program recommended this book, and I picked it up from Amazon several weeks prior to finals.
I've generally considered test-taking "manuals" to be overly simplistic and far too general to be effective. But this book is different. It doesn't prescribe worthless "strategies" for stock scenarios (like those dreadful LSAT books), but instead attempts to get you to rethink your approach to the exam--from preparation to execution. What impressed me the most about _Getting to Maybe_ is that it makes a point not to provide pat answers, or to patch up poor preparation. Rather, it suggests new ways to think about the law, and about the scenarios that appear on law school exams.
One caveat is that, to get anything out of this book, you need to pick it up well before finals: this book tries to get you to approach law school differently, and this is something that can't be done a day before the exam. This book is worth your time--not only is the prose far more lively and entertaining than, say, that of International Shoe, but you really come away from _Getting to Maybe_ feeling like the effort was worthwhile.
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