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Hi everyone,
As we recently announced, we've created lessons to explain law courses you’ll take in your 1L year. As part of that effort, we also want to teach you how to write a law school exam.
Law school exams truly are unlike any exams you’ve written in undergrad. That in and of itself is daunting enough. They also happen to account for the entirety of your 1L grades.
Therefore, if your 1L grades are important to you, it’s important that you become acquainted with how to write good exams.
So, we’re giving every student enrolled in an LSAT or Admissions course the opportunity to take part in a mock Crim Law exam. We don’t want your very first experience with writing an exam to be one with so much riding on it. Rather, do a trial run with us and we’ll hold your hand. We’ve temporarily opened up some lessons normally available only to students enrolled in our Law School Explained courses.
If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, first listen to or watch some lectures (appx 2.5 hours), then read one case (appx 45 mins), and finally write an exam (2 hours).
“Waah, that’s a boatload of work!”
It sure is.
From the exams that we collect, we will select three, anonymize them, and offer detailed feedback.
The lessons, the exam, and the feedback will all be provided by Prof. Daniel Epps of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
If your essay is selected for review, you’ll be receiving personalized feedback on how to improve your writing. The catch is that the feedback will become part of the course to benefit other students as well.
If you submit an essay and we do not select it for review, you’ll still gain free access to the critiques of the three essays that we do select. This will enable you to compare your own exams to see where you can do better. Normally, those lessons would be only available to students enrolled in our Law School Explained courses.
If you’re concerned about the odds of your essay being selected, I’d direct your attention to the quote above. Because we’ve setup the process to be time consuming and demanding, I don’t expect that we’ll get too many responses. This mimics what you’ll quickly come to expect as normal once you’re in law school. It also has the additional effect of filtering for only the original gunners.
If that’s you, then I wish you good luck.
You may begin here.
Deadline for completion is October 31.
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The feedback and some additional lessons are ready!
Issue Spotter Question
https://classic.7sage.com/lawschool/actual-answers-issue-spotter/
Policy Question
https://classic.7sage.com/lawschool/actual-answers-policy-question/
This (and the original prompt / lessons) will be accessible to everyone for two weeks. After that, it'll only be accessible to students enrolled in Law School Explained.
@jipthomas635 Soon, in 2 weeks!
Hi, J.Y. Just wondering if you have an ETA on the results. It's a nice distraction from waiting to hear back from schools. :smile:
Submissions are officially closed.
Thanks everyone for sending in essays! I will announce results in the next few weeks.
@vickylawschool01622 It's a monthly subscription and you can cancel it anytime!
@noraprener549 Yup, it'll take a while though. We have to organize the essays, Prof. Epps then has to select the ones he'll review, then we actually have to produce the reviews. Will update on the forums when they are ready!
Will there be an announcement once the exams + feedback are posted?
I just wanted to ask the law school classes say $9 or $16/month, is that for a certain period of time, or we can keep it for a month and cancel? Thanks!
Just submitted, thank you for the the opportunity JY. This is going a long way toward calming some of my trepidation about doing these exams for real in law school.
@noraprener549
Page will go offline around noon ET on Sunday Nov. 1st.
Comments are enabled under the permanent lesson pages for https://classic.7sage.com/lawschool but not for the temporary lesson pages that will go offline on Sunday.
@kamelbrooklyn761
They will be posted in the https://classic.7sage.com/lawschool curriculum.
Where will the feedback be posted?
Also, will there be a way to submit comments on the course under the videos/lessons? I would love to share/get thoughts on requisite mens rea for a given statute and states that find anyone who harms another in the commission of a crime to be guilty of secondary crimes.
@jy-ping said:
@tallentrandall119 You can submit on Oct. 31st. The page will go offline on Nov. 1st.
Timeline question. It is getting late here in Asia, what time in what time zone will submissions close? I would prefer to get some sleep after finishing the lectures and complete the exam in the morning, but that will be evening East Coast time. I want to make sure I have plenty of time to complete the exam, will it close at midnight EST, midnight PST, or some other time?
@n000116261700 Nice job!
Ahh! Just finished the exam. I totally agree with everyone above... it's very scary to just press save haha. Thank you J.Y. for this exercise. I think it was a very valuable experience, especially for someone like me who kind of decided to start studying for the LSAT on a whim. I'm looking forward to seeing the feedback from the essays selected, and hope that it can help me improve my own writing, and the way I thought about the questions and the case itself.
@tallentrandall119 You can submit on Oct. 31st. The page will go offline on Nov. 1st.
Sorry just a question on the deadline--can we take the exam any time on October 31st? Or does it have to be before the date October 31st?
@304694 Yup, if you hit save (before or after timer) we have it.
Just completed mine and want to make sure it was submitted. I'm not sure if I clicked save before time officially expired, but if not, I saved what I wrote and can resend. Thanks! That was hard and fun at the same time!
@jipthomas635 Yup, we have it!
Hi! Also just double-checking that you got mine since there's something anticlimactic about merely hitting save.
Deadline is coming up in just 7 days everyone!
@hollyludvigsen99849 Yup, we got it!
I completed the mock exam, but after my time expired there was no option to submit, I just kept clicking "save." How do I know if my exam was submitted?
Awesome! Thank you!
@noraprener549 After 10/31 the Criminal Law videos will be accessible only to those enrolled in Law School Explained. Same for the critiques of the essays.