Law school is unfair. It’s unfair that your entire grade for most classes rests on how well you perform during a single 3- or 4-hour test. It’s unfair that your professors rarely tell you how to excel on their exams. And it’s certainly unfair that your school probably will implement a strict grading curve where the difference between an A and a B can rest on 1/100th of a point. Although most students approach exams with loathing and trepidation, Law Preview students learn to embrace their exams for what they really are: the only chance they have to show the professor what they have learned.
Spend a week with us and you will learn:
- What “issues” are -- and how to spot them
- How to properly frame the issues that merit discussion;
- The types of arguments that parties make in support of (or against) the application of legal rules; and
- The sophisticated analysis needed to compete for top grades.
Once students understand how to analyze hypothetical fact patterns, Law Preview’s faculty shows them the correct way to draft their responses by providing:
Once you spend a week with us, you will have the skills you need to conquer your law school exams.
WHAT SOME OF OUR STUDENTS SAY ABOUT LAW PREVIEW'S EXAM-TAKING PROGRAM . . .
GWU does not do a ranking, but I was placed in the 1%-15% bracket of 1L students, which is the highest reserved honors that GWU gives . . . and have been invited to join the George Washington University Law Review. . . . The Law Preview class on Exam Taking helped me to not only recognize exactly what my professors wanted to read, but helped me go into the course from day one with that mindset (something most students don't begin to realize until they begin to outline). . . . Law Preview helped me feel confident that I could achieve the goals I had set for myself, which I did.
You guys are the best! Here is an update for you: After first semester, my GPA is 3.67, and I am ranked #17 out of 314 (top 5.5%) at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Not only that, but my Torts professor selected one of my finals essays to put on file in the school library (anonymously, of course) as an example of a good student answer. So I'm officially a published writer, if only anonymously! Your class here last summer was one of the reasons for my success. Thanks a million!
Although NYU doesn't rank students, I ended the year with a 3.68 GPA, which means I'm in the top few percent (I'm guessing top 2-3%, since there are only around 10 students out of a class of about 450 with a 3.7 or above). One of my professors emailed to tell me I wrote the best exam in her class this spring. . . . Overall, I wouldn't ascribe my success solely to Law Preview, but I do think it helped calm me down and got me off on the right foot from the very beginning of the year; and it definitely helped when it came to exams. Now that the first year is over, I'm waiting to hear about journals in a few weeks (fingers crossed), and as a result of my GPA, I will have my pick of firms.
