Exam Advice from the Professors

I thought I would use this entry to pass along some exam advice that my class received from a couple of professors...

One instructor told us before the exam to relax, that the exam we were about to take was worth just three hours of credit. We need 88 hours of credit to graduate from law school. In the scheme of things, one exam is not going to greatly impact our lives. We've studied and prepared, he said, but there will be exams where we don't perform as well as we should, and other exams where we get a better grade than we deserved. Our results should even out over the course of three years. There was nothing we were going to do over the next three hours of the exam that would greatly impact our legal career, he said. "Nothing, that is, unless you cheat."

Another professor echoed this advice when she said, at some point over our law school careers, we will probably have to take an exam when we are sick.

I thought both of these were good efforts on the part of the instructors to try and keep things in perspective as the class readied itself for the tests.

Until Next Time,

Nathan Marshburn