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To: D. Long who wrote (100167)	2/13/2005 12:36:18 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 793801

Having taken and passed three bar exams, I think that the biggest thing that law school and the bar exams test is whether you can think and talk like a lawyer. It's not really "reasoning skills" so much as using a certain style of expressing yourself. If you have the style down pat, the rest of the grade is how many points you hit on the pinball machine. Good analysis from one or two directions gets you a "B" or a "C" on a final and a "pass" on the bar exam. To get an "A" you have to come at the problem from three or four or five different directions, using good analysis. So getting an "A" tests most of all how fast you can generate ideas and how fast you can write. "Good reasoning" all by itself won't get you an "A". I was really pissed first year when I made one "C" -- and when the teacher and I went over the paper, I said, but I got the answers right. And he said, yes, but getting the answer right isn't good enough, you have to give me more than the right answer. He said he had a list of possible points one can make, and the more of the points you made, the higher the score.

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