Professor Geier’s Exam-Taking Tips

Professor Geier’s Exam Taking Tips contains many helpful hints for essay exams, such as:

  • Don’t waste time recopying the facts or copying the statute into your exam book.
  • Don’t write about law not implicated by the facts or discuss matters not asked for on the exam.
  • Do not be complacent because the exam is open book.

She explains these points and others in this succinct one and a half page article.

You can find more web pages and books with tips on taking exams in the library’s Preparing for Exams page.