pmbr: day 2
today was constitutional law. it was nothing too exciting, same general format: show up at 9, take 50-question multiple choice exam, grade it yourself at lunch, and then come back at noon for a three-hour lecture that consists mostly of going over the answers and a couple strategies for studying and test-taking.
the proctor/lecturer warned us that con law would be the easiest subject, though it might not necessarily be the easiest for us today. He said, depending on how fresh it was in our minds, we might score a little higher, or a little lower than evidence, but by the time we were done with today, and with our bar preparations, con law should be a subject in which we expect to gain ground, at least on the multiple choice portion of the test.
con law definitely was easier for me than evidence was. i think i mentioned that i scored a 38% on the evidence test yesterday. today, i hit 62% on con law. still short of the 65-70% to put me in the 'safe' range for the bar, but not bad for a first go. of course, one bit of preparation that i did today (which i didn't do for evidence) was skimming the chart outline they supply in the back of the pmbr materials. it served as a good brushup for con law concepts. i think without that little review, i would have missed at least 3 or 4 of the questions that i got right, so that's one more reason not to get too confident about my performance on the con law section. i was horribly confused on questions about presidential powers and equal protection. i blame the former on our current administration's own confusion about the limits of presidential powers and the latter on my inability to remember which classifications are suspect, quasi-suspect and not suspect at all.
today served as a little bump up in my esteem. one that hopefully will carry me through the rest of the week, as i doubt it will happen again.
the proctor/lecturer warned us that con law would be the easiest subject, though it might not necessarily be the easiest for us today. He said, depending on how fresh it was in our minds, we might score a little higher, or a little lower than evidence, but by the time we were done with today, and with our bar preparations, con law should be a subject in which we expect to gain ground, at least on the multiple choice portion of the test.
con law definitely was easier for me than evidence was. i think i mentioned that i scored a 38% on the evidence test yesterday. today, i hit 62% on con law. still short of the 65-70% to put me in the 'safe' range for the bar, but not bad for a first go. of course, one bit of preparation that i did today (which i didn't do for evidence) was skimming the chart outline they supply in the back of the pmbr materials. it served as a good brushup for con law concepts. i think without that little review, i would have missed at least 3 or 4 of the questions that i got right, so that's one more reason not to get too confident about my performance on the con law section. i was horribly confused on questions about presidential powers and equal protection. i blame the former on our current administration's own confusion about the limits of presidential powers and the latter on my inability to remember which classifications are suspect, quasi-suspect and not suspect at all.
today served as a little bump up in my esteem. one that hopefully will carry me through the rest of the week, as i doubt it will happen again.
posted by tobin at 5/23/2006 10:27:00 PM
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