The Eight Secrets Of Top Exam Performance In Law School: An Easy-To-Use, Step-by-Step Program for Achieving Great Grades!

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This is a good book for pre-law students and 1Ls. It gives some basic advice about how to think about and write law school exams. However, I have one big caveat, there is not a "secret" to law school test taking. The keys are to know the black-letter law cold, and to be precise and concise in your analysis, and to practice taking tests under test conditions as much as possible. This book is a good quick read for those who have never taken a law school test, or who did not perform as well as they would have liked. For those who did do well on tests this book will not provide much, if any, useful information.

This is the most important book you will read in all of law school and I have the stats to prove it. I read this book after three semesters of law school on the recommendation of a friend who said it worked - she was in the top 5% of the class - I in the top 60% YUCK! My GPA to that point was a weak 2.89. For each of the remaining three semesters that I used the techniques from the book I made the deans list and my GPA averege for those semesters was a 3.6. My last semester of law school I got all A's and one B+. Use these techniques and good luck!

I was surprised that Professor Whitehead sold out to such a poor product in an obvious quick profit job through marketing and an attention-grabbing title. Weak. The whole premise of this book is based on a dangerous idea that there are eight magical steps in "the" formulae for success. This is something you might want to read while waiting in line somewhere, as there's not much thought to it; however, I would recommend borrowing it as it's not worth paying any money for... Unbelievable hoax and another attempt to gouge poor, impressionable 1L's who don't know what to expect and are willing to buy into the magic formulae idea, the quick-fix approach. This "book" is so short and simple, it's something that I'd expect to see as a "how-to" on the internet for free. It's barely enough to make a pamphlet but it's printed in big font with huge, patronizing pages with the numbered steps. I paid...for some law professor (teaches at USC, does the Gilbert's Law...Read more