Law Students

How do you outline?

By Casebook Sherpa

My title assumes that you write an outline for each class you take. I do. It’s helpful for me and memorizing it (or nearly memorizing it) is incredibly helpful. (Particularly - and sadly - for my exam tonight where our professor taught us shockingly little about the area of law she’s testing us on.)

My question is: How do you go about building your own outlines?

What sources do you use? Solely class notes and your case books? Commercial outlines? Other students’ outlines?

Do you outline throughout the semester or on a few days/weekends late in the semester?

Do you supplement your outline with things like flash cards or practice exams or…?

Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).