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Study Groups: Make Them Work for You
Working with others to prepare for exams can be an uplifting and productive experience. However, it…
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Solving Study Group Problems
Some of my law students avoid study groups because of prior problems they had with…
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Memorization: The Final Week of Bar Prep
During the final week of bar prep, memorization is paramount. Overlearning the law is the…
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Why Global-Intuitive Students May Mistake Superficial Analysis for the Real Thing
Global processors are always looking for the big picture, the overview, or the roadmap in…
Posted inLearning Styles Reading Study Tips - General
Why Sequential-Sensing Students May Mistake Class Preparation for the Ultimate Goal
Sequential processors focus on the individual units before them (cases, subtopics, topics) rather than look at…
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Leave Your Point of View at the Fact Pattern Door: Part 2 of 2 (Guest post by Seth Aiken, UMass Law)
In the first installment of this post, I suggested that for some law students, life…
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Leave Your Point of View at the Fact Pattern Door: Part 1 of 2 (Guest Post by Seth Aiken, UMass Law)
For some law students, life experience and a strongly held point of view can be…
Posted inLearning Styles Study Tips - General
How Do I Memorize All These Rules?
Law students have a large number of items to memorize so that they can state…
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The Beloit Mindset List
Thank you to John Edwards at Drake for reminding us that it is the time…
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Fixed and Growth Mindsets – Another Resource
Thanks to Jennifer Cooper at Thomas Jefferson for the mention on the ASP Listserv of a book…