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Whether you’re on your LLB, GDL, PGDL, CILEX, LPC, SQE… You get it – learning how to deal with problem questions will be essential to your legal education. And to be fair, it’s genuinely useful to learn how to assess problem scenarios as you’ll need to use similar skills in your professional future.

Problem questions will present you with a factual scenario and typically require you to assess the situation from a legal perspective or advise a fictional client on their rights and liabilities.

The best way to answer problem questions is to learn the technique . Examiners will expect you to answer problem questions in a particular way. Like with any type of exam, honing your technique is your best bet for problem questions too. In the case of problem questions, it’s all about learning to apply your knowledge to the scenario. So, here’s a few tips:

Use the right guides: If you know that you’ll be assessed by way of problem questions, then you should learn and revise the law in the same way. That way, the technique will be second nature to you. Reading a typical set of notes won’t help you to apply your knowledge, so we recommend using Law Answered’s notes . Their LLB and GDL notes deliberately use problem question structures (and other exam answer outlines) in order to help you learn the subject in the same way as you’ll need to apply it.

Think about “ IRAC ”: You might hear this term from a few of your tutors. It is an acronym to describe how you should structure your answer:

I ssue – simply state the specific legal issue or question;
R ule – explain that specific legal issue and the relevant rules in detail;
A pplication – apply the rules to the factual scenario in the question; and
C onclusion – conclude: what is the end result?

For example, if you were answering a problem question on a potential murder, you would begin with a brief description of the case of R v Defendant , in which the defendant killed the victim by stabbing him. You would state that the issue is whether the defendant has committed a murder, and legally define “murder”. You would then go through the rules of the actus reus and mens rea of the offence. You would then look at the rules in detail and apply them to the particular facts of the case, using examples from common law to illustrate why (or why not) the defendant has committed a murder. You would also look at the details of any defences that might apply. You would then conclude as to the defendant’s prospects. You can find a free PDF sample guide to answering a GDL murder exam question here .

Look out for red herrings: Examiners will sometimes throw in odd details to put you off. A common trick is to include a very specific date for when something happened. This could be the day before or after a particular statute became law. If so, your entire answer will change. Another trick is to have the fictional character or client in the question make an accusation or start a lawsuit along a particular legal line which is in fact the wrong line of enquiry.

Be practical: Answering a problem question is very different to answering an essay question. This is not an opportunity to engage in academic debate and jurisprudence. Instead, imagine that you are a lawyer giving practical advice to a real client – as if you are explaining the law and evaluating their circumstances and what the outcome in real terms will be. Showing off will not help you.

Slow down! Don’t make the mistake of skim-reading the question and rushing to write your answer – you might go down completely the wrong track. A good rule of thumb is to take five minutes at the start of your exam to properly read the question and understand the key facts.

Make a plan or a note of the key facts . Try writing down a few key words, a mini mind-map of connections or a mini chronology (timeline) of events – whichever works best for your style of learning. Writing down a few key words or facts will help you digest the problem question. For the same reason it’s good to occasionally check back in and re-read the question as you write your answer.

Answer the question set! Most importantly, you need to make sure you are answering the exact question, with the exact facts, that you have been set. So many students slip up because they do not check back in with the question and end up side-tracked and discussing a marginally relevant issue. Your answer is only worth any points if it is directly relevant to the problem question scenario. Look back to make sure that you are directly answering the exact question set. Use the same terminology that the question uses to avoid straying.

Now, if that all makes sense, you need to make sure that you’ve got the technique straight in your head. The solution is simple: practise, practise, practise! Take every opportunity you can to practise. Put effort into any mock exams on your course and take any feedback on board. Get hold of as many past papers as you can and practise writing answers under timed conditions. If your tutor is nice, they may be amenable to you asking for extra feedback. Never be afraid to ask for help as early as you can! It would be far worse to wait until the last minute.

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How to learn case law for your exams

This post has been contributed by Charlotte Crilly, Teaching Fellow for the Undergraduate Laws Programme.

So you’ve got a case list as part of the module you’re studying. And now you’re wondering what to do with it! How should you memorise these cases for the exam? And how much of each case should you learn anyway – the facts, the summary, or as much of the judgment as you can? This blog post gives you tips and ideas about learning case law for the exam. Try some out and let us know how you get on, by leaving a comment.

Making case cards

Try making yourself some case cards as an aid to memorisation. This is what to do:

Choose a case that you want to learn for the exam.
On one side of an index card or small piece of paper, write the name of the case.
One the other side, write the key facts and key point of law for the case.
Make similar cards for all the cases you want to learn.
Take the cards with you wherever you go, and test yourself often. You can look at the name of the case and try to recall (without looking!) the key facts and points of law. Or you can look at the facts and points of law, and try to remember the name of the case.
Get together with friends and test each other on cases. You can ask other students or just with friends and family.
You can use these homemade case cards in lots of other ways too. Choose a past exam question from the past papers on the VLE. Think about the question, and choose case cards which would help you to answer the question. This will help you to really think about the cases and how you can use them in the exam.

Other types of case notes

You could make brief case notes on larger pieces of paper, and stick these up on the walls where you live, work or spend time. You can read the case notes as you go about your daily life, and test yourself in spare moments.
Perhaps you are a visual learner? Try making a mind map or spider diagram about the main points in the case and see if that helps you to remember them. Or you could even draw pictures to remind you of cases!
As an alternative to making your own case cards, you could use an online tool for testing yourself with flashcards. You could use a program like Anki or Quizlet or there are many other online programs available.

What information do I need to learn?

First of all, most law modules will contain a considerable amount of case law, and you can’t hope to learn every detail of every case. So you need to be selective. Remember too that you’re not learning cases in isolation, but to answer essay questions about specific legal topics or to answer legal problem questions. Your understanding of the legal principles of the cases and how they can be applied to questions is crucial – it is not enough just to be able to recite the facts of a case.

Keep your notes relatively brief. Write in bullet points or short phrases. Use abbreviations. These should then jog your memory when you are in the exam. If you write long sentences or copious information about the case, you are unlikely to remember if all in the exam.

Make sure you include these things in your case notes:

Which court the case was heard in, and in which year.
The material facts. These should just be brief – exclude anything that is not relevant to the reason for the court’s decision.
The key legal principles – you will probably need several bullet points for this. Think carefully about what the ratio of the case is.
Key details about any dissenting judgments.
The case’s relationship to any other important cases – has it been affirmed, considered, distinguished in any other cases?

Example from Legal System and Method

D obtained access to prohibited place within meaning of the Official Secrets Act 1920 – air base.
D was within its boundaries when obstructed a member of forces engaged in security duty.
Charged with having obstructed in the vicinity of a prohibited place.
Argued: not in vicinity of a prohibited place since he was actually in a prohibited place.

Decision (Lord Parker CJ) :

Court applied golden rule.
Extended literal wording of the statute to cover the action committed by D.
Had the literal rule been applied, it would have produced an absurdity.

Once you find a method of learning case law that works for you, you can apply the same method to statutes, summaries of module guides, and more!

How to write a case brief for law school: Excerpt reproduced from Introduction to the Study of Law: Cases and Materials,

Third Edition (LexisNexis 2009) by Michael Makdisi & John Makdisi

C. HOW TO BRIEF

The previous section described the parts of a case in order to make it easier to read and identify the pertinent information that you will use to create your briefs. This section will describe the parts of a brief in order to give you an idea about what a brief is, what is helpful to include in a brief, and what purpose it serves. Case briefs are a necessary study aid in law school that helps to encapsulate and analyze the mountainous mass of material that law students must digest. The case brief represents a final product after reading a case, rereading it, taking it apart, and putting it back together again. In addition to its function as a tool for self-instruction and referencing, the case brief also provides a valuable “cheat sheet” for class participation.

Who will read your brief? Most professors will espouse the value of briefing but will never ask to see that you have, in fact, briefed. As a practicing lawyer, your client doesn’t care if you brief, so long as you win the case. The judges certainly don’t care if you brief, so long as you competently practice the law. You are the person that the brief will serve! Keep this in mind when deciding what elements to include as part of your brief and when deciding what information to include under those elements.

What are the elements of a brief? Different people will tell you to include different things in your brief. Most likely, upon entering law school, this will happen with one or more of your instructors. While opinions may vary, four elements that are essential to any useful brief are the following:

(a) Facts (name of the case and its parties, what happened factually and procedurally, and the judgment)

(b) Issues (what is in dispute)

(d) Rationale (reasons for the holding)

If you include nothing but these four elements, you should have everything you need in order to recall effectively the information from the case during class or several months later when studying for exams.

Because briefs are made for yourself, you may want to include other elements that expand the four elements listed above. Depending on the case, the inclusion of additional elements may be useful. For example, a case that has a long and important section expounding dicta might call for a separate section in your brief labeled: Dicta. Whatever elements you decide to include, however, remember that the brief is a tool intended for personal use. To the extent that more elements will help with organization and use of the brief, include them. On the other hand, if you find that having more elements makes your brief cumbersome and hard to use, cut back on the number of elements. At a minimum, however, make sure you include the four elements listed above.

Elements that you may want to consider including in addition to the four basic elements are:

(e) Dicta (commentary about the decision that was not the basis for the decision)

(f) Dissent (if a valuable dissenting opinion exits, the dissent’s opinion)

(g) Party’s Arguments (each party’s opposing argument concerning the ultimate issue)

(h) Comments (personal commentary)

Personal comments can be useful if you have a thought that does not fit elsewhere. In the personal experience of one of the authors, this element was used to label cases as specific kinds (e.g., as a case of vicarious liability) or make mental notes about what he found peculiar or puzzling about cases. This element allowed him to release his thoughts (without losing them) so that he could move on to other cases.

In addition to these elements, it may help you to organize your thoughts, as some people do, by dividing Facts into separate elements:

(1) Facts of the case (what actually happened, the controversy)

(2) Procedural History (what events within the court system led to the present case)

(3) Judgment (what the court actually decided)

Procedural History is usually minimal and most of the time irrelevant to the ultimate importance of a case; however, this is not always true. One subject in which Procedure History is virtually always relevant is Civil Procedure.

When describing the Judgment of the case, distinguish it from the Holding. The Judgment is the factual determination by the court, in favor of one party, such as “affirmed,” “reversed,” or “remanded.” In contrast, the Holding is the applied rule of law that serves as the basis for the ultimate judgment.

Remember that the purpose of a brief is to remind you of the important details that make the case significant in terms of the law. It will be a reference tool when you are drilled by a professor and will be a study aid when you prepare for exams. A brief is also like a puzzle piece.

The elements of the brief create the unique shape and colors of the piece, and, when combined with other pieces, the picture of the common law takes form. A well-constructed brief will save you lots of time by removing the need to return to the case to remember the important details and also by making it easier to put together the pieces of the common law puzzle.

D. EXTRACTING THE RELEVANT INFORMATION: ANNOTATING AND HIGHLIGHTING

So now that you know the basic elements of a brief, what information is important to include under each element? The simple answer is: whatever is relevant. But what parts of a case are relevant? When you read your first few cases, you may think that everything that the judge said was relevant to his ultimate conclusion. Even if this were true, what is relevant for the judge to make his decision is not always relevant for you to include in your brief. Remember, the reason to make a brief is not to persuade the world that the ultimate decision in the case is a sound one, but rather to aid in refreshing your memory concerning the most important parts of the case.

What facts are relevant to include in a brief? You should include the facts that are necessary to remind you of the story. If you forget the story, you will not remember how the law in the case was applied. You should also include the facts that are dispositive to the decision in the case. For instance, if the fact that a car is white is a determining factor in the case, the brief should note that the case involves a white car and not simply a car. To the extent that the procedural history either helps you to remember the case or plays an important role in the ultimate outcome, you should include these facts as well.

What issues and conclusions are relevant to include in a brief? There is usually one main issue on which the court rests its decision. This may seem simple, but the court may talk about multiple issues, and may discuss multiple arguments from both sides of the case. Be sure to distinguish the issues from the arguments made by the parties. The relevant issue or issues, and corresponding conclusions, are the ones for which the court made a final decision and which are binding. The court may discuss intermediate conclusions or issues, but stay focused on the main issue and conclusion which binds future courts.

What rationale is important to include in a brief? This is probably the most difficult aspect of the case to determine. Remember that everything that is discussed may have been relevant to the judge, but it is not necessarily relevant to the rationale of the decision. The goal is to remind yourself of the basic reasoning that the court used to come to its decision and the key factors that made the decision favor one side or the other.

A brief should be brief! Overly long or cumbersome briefs are not very helpful because you will not be able to skim them easily when you review your notes or when the professor drills you. On the other hand, a brief that is too short will be equally unhelpful because it lacks sufficient information to refresh your memory. Try to keep your briefs to one page in length. This will make it easy for you to organize and reference them.

Do not get discouraged. Learning to brief and figuring out exactly what to include will take time and practice. The more you brief, the easier it will become to extract the relevant information.

While a brief is an extremely helpful and important study aid, annotating and highlighting are other tools for breaking down the mass of material in your casebook. The remainder of this section will discuss these different techniques and show how they complement and enhance the briefing process.

Annotating Cases

Many of you probably already read with a pencil or pen, but if you do not, now is the time to get in the habit. Cases are so dense and full of information that you will find yourself spending considerable amounts of time rereading cases to find what you need. An effective way to reduce this time is to annotate the margins of the casebook. Your pencil (or pen) will be one of your best friends while reading a case. It will allow you to mark off the different sections (such as facts, procedural history, or conclusions), thus allowing you to clear your mind of thoughts and providing an invaluable resource when briefing and reviewing.

You might be wondering why annotating is important if you make an adequate, well-constructed brief. By their very nature briefs cannot cover everything in a case. Even with a thorough, well-constructed brief you may want to reference the original case in order to reread dicta that might not have seemed important at the time, to review the complete procedural history or set of facts, or to scour the rationale for a better understanding of the case; annotating makes these tasks easier. Whether you return to a case after a few hours or a few months, annotations will swiftly guide you to the pertinent parts of the case by providing a roadmap of the important sections. Your textual markings and margin notes will refresh your memory and restore specific thoughts you might have had about either the case in general or an individual passage.

Annotations will also remind you of forgotten thoughts and random ideas by providing a medium for personal comments.

In addition to making it easier to review an original case, annotating cases during the first review of a case makes the briefing process easier. With adequate annotations, the important details needed for your brief will be much easier to retrieve. Without annotations, you will likely have difficulty locating the information you seek even in the short cases. It might seem strange that it would be hard to reference a short case, but even a short case will likely take you at least fifteen to twenty-five minutes to read, while longer cases may take as much as thirty minutes to an hour to complete. No matter how long it takes, the dense material of all cases makes it difficult to remember all your thoughts, and trying to locate specific sections of the analysis may feel like you are trying to locate a needle in a haystack. An annotation in the margin, however, will not only swiftly guide you to a pertinent section, but will also refresh the thoughts that you had while reading that section.

When you read a case for the first time, read for the story and for a basic understanding of the dispute, the issues, the rationale, and the decision. As you hit these elements (or what you think are these elements) make a mark in the margins. Your markings can be as simple as “facts” (with a bracket that indicates the relevant part of the paragraph). When you spot an issue, you may simply mark “issue” or instead provide a synopsis in your own words. When a case sparks an idea — write that idea in the margin as well — you never know when a seemingly irrelevant idea might turn into something more.

Finally, when you spot a particularly important part of the text, underline it (or highlight it as described below).

With a basic understanding of the case, and with annotations in the margin, the second read-through of the case should be much easier. You can direct your reading to the most important sections and will have an easier time identifying what is and is not important. Continue rereading the case until you have identified all the relevant information that you need to make your brief, including the issue(s), the facts, the holding, and the relevant parts of the analysis.

Pencil or pen — which is better to use when annotating? Our recommendation is a mechanical pencil. Mechanical pencils make finer markings than regular pencils, and also than ballpoint pens. Although you might think a pencil might smear more than a pen, with its sharp point a mechanical pencil uses very little excess lead and will not smear as much as you might imagine. A mechanical pencil will also give you the freedom to make mistakes without consequences. When you first start annotating, you may think that some passages are more important than they really are, and therefore you may resist the urge to make a mark in order to preserve your book and prevent false guideposts. With a pencil, however, the ability to erase and rewrite removes this problem.

Highlighting

Why highlight? Like annotating, highlighting may seem unimportant if you create thorough, well-constructed briefs, but highlighting directly helps you to brief. It makes cases, especially the more complicated ones, easy to digest, review and use to extract information.

Highlighting takes advantage of colors to provide a uniquely effective method for reviewing and referencing a case. If you prefer a visual approach to learning, you may find highlighting to be a very effective tool.

If annotating and highlighting are so effective, why brief? Because the process of summarizing a case and putting it into your own words within a brief provides an understanding of the law and of the case that you cannot gain through the process of highlighting or annotating.

The process of putting the case into your own words forces you to digest the material, while annotating and highlighting can be accomplished in a much more passive manner.

What should you highlight? Similar to annotating, the best parts of the case to highlight are those that represent the needed information for your brief such as the facts, the issue, the holding and the rationale.

Unlike annotating, highlighting provides an effective way to color code, which makes referring to the case even easier. In addition, Highlighters are particularly useful in marking off entire sections by using brackets. These brackets will allow you to color-code the case without highlighting all the text, leaving the most important phrases untouched for a more detailed highlight marking or underlining.

Highlighting is a personal tool, and therefore should be used to the extent that highlighting helps, but should be modified in a way that makes it personally time efficient and beneficial. For instance, you might combine the use of annotations in the margins with the visual benefit of highlighting the relevant text. You may prefer to underline the relevant text with a pencil, but to use a highlighter to bracket off the different sections of a case. Whatever you choose to do, make sure that it works for you, regardless of what others recommend. The techniques in the remainder of this section will describe ways to make full use of your highlighters.

First, buy yourself a set of multi-colored highlighters, with at least four, or perhaps five or six different colors. Yellow, pink, and orange are usually the brightest. Depending on the brand, purple and green can be dark, but still work well. Although blue is a beautiful color, it tends to darken and hide the text.

Therefore we recommend that you save blue for the elements that you rarely highlight.

For each different section of the case, choose a color, and use that color only when highlighting the section of the case designated for that color. Consider using yellow for the text that you tend to highlight most frequently. Because yellow is the brightest, you may be inclined to use yellow for the Conclusions in order to make them stand out the most. If you do this, however, you will exhaust your other colors much faster than yellow and this will require that you purchase an entire set of new highlighters when a single color runs out because colors such as green are not sold separately. If instead you choose to use yellow on a more frequently highlighted section such as the Analysis, when it comes time to replace your yellow marker, you will need only to replace your yellow highlighter individually. In the personal experience on one of the authors, the sections of cases that seemed to demand the most highlighter attention were the

Facts and the Analysis, while the Issues and Holdings demanded the least. Other Considerations and

Procedural History required lots of highlighting in particular cases although not in every case.

Experiment if you must, but try to choose a color scheme early on in the semester and stick with it. That way, when you come back to the first cases of the semester, you will not be confused with multiple color schemes. The basic sections of a case for which you should consider giving a different color are:

(b) Procedural History

(d) Holding (and conclusions)

(e) Analysis (rationale)

(f) Other Considerations (such as dicta)

Not all of these sections demand a separate color. You may find that combining Facts and Procedural History or Issues and Holdings works best. Furthermore, as mentioned above, some sections may not warrant highlighting in every case (e.g., dicta probably do not need to be highlighted unless they are particularly important). If you decide that a single color is all that you need, then stick to one, but if you find yourself highlighting lots of text from many different sections, reconsider the use of at least a few different colors. Highlighters make text stand out, but only when used appropriately. The use of many colors enables you to highlight more text without reducing the highlighter’s effectiveness. Three to four colors provides decent color variation without the cumbersomeness of handling too many markers.

Once you are comfortable with your color scheme, determining exactly what to highlight still may be difficult. Similar to knowing what to annotate, experience will perfect your highlighting skills. Be careful not to highlight everything, thus ruining your highlighters’ effectiveness; at the same time, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

Now that we have covered the basics of reading, annotating, highlighting, and briefing a case, you are ready to start practicing. Keep the tips and techniques mentioned in this chapter in mind when you tackle the four topics in the remainder of this book. If you have difficultly, refer back to this chapter to help guide you as you master the case method of study and the art of using the common law.

How to Score High in Exams as a Law Student

This article is written by Suryansh Verma , a 3rd year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. In this article, he lays down certain tips for law students and testimonials for scoring high in exams as a Law Student.

Introduction

Law exams can be really stressful sometimes when it comes to the course content. 700 pages of long judgments, 1000 pages long textbooks are bound to make you stressed out. But, don’t worry! I am going to lay down certain tips in this blog post which are going to help you to help you in scoring high in the exams.

Sometimes, on entering the exam room, most students start panicking and hyperventilating on sight of the question paper. This might be because of the fact that sometimes there is a need to pass that very law subject or maybe you’re putting too much pressure on yourself in order to achieve a high percentage.

The words on the cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are the best possible remedy when faced with such times i.e.

Don’t Panic

The life of a law student is filled with hardships. The reason is that this profession demands a lot of hard work, sincerity, and diligence. One needs to be extensively well read. If you are not well versed with the things which are necessary for you, you are definitely going to have a lot of difficulty in comprehending whatever you’re reading.

There are hundreds of sections and articles of statutes. Most of the law schools in India make their students mug up all of them. It gets quite boring after a point of time.

Besides mugging up the whole statues, there are hundreds of case laws in almost every statute which is quite difficult to learn.

An average student can sit for studying at a maximum stretch of four hours. This capacity depends and varies from student to student.

For a slow brain like me, even two hours seem to be an extremely long period.

One has to make their brain accustomed to the long studying hours for scoring high in exams as a law student. Even if he/she is studying for a small span of time, they should be really thorough with what they have read. Yeah, you don’t really have a choice here.

You have to mug up everything the same way you remember the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody.

Most of the students have a really short attention span. This becomes a bit problematic because they may experience a blackout while writing the examination. This affects their performance in the paper and hence they score really less.

Then you start questioning your ability, remember Ishaan from Taare Zameen Par? You might have dyslexia.

Why should one score high marks?

Scoring less in your papers in law school has a disastrous effect on the CV. Most of the firms these days before giving internships pay a great amount of attention to the pointers/CGPA scored by the applicants. A high CGPA also depicts the sincerity and hard work of a student.

Scoring high does not mean that you’re a nerd.

It also comes in handy while sitting for interviews. It carves out a good impression on the interview panel. Thus, scoring high in exams while in law school is a necessity.

This article shall provide you with useful insights which one may consider while preparing for their exams.

Control your nerves and keep calm

The first and foremost tip is to calm yourself before and during the exam. Most of the students get so stressed out before the exam that they start getting nervous. Always remember that you’re not alone, feeling nervous before a law exam is completely normal and understandable.

Just, don’t go all American Psycho over the paper.

Always remember that many of your fellow students feel the nervousness too. You can think of the nervousness as excitement because it is all in your brain. Throughout your preparation leading up to the exam, feeling excited indicates that you are motivated to achieve what you want. You want to learn effectively and give a good performance in the exam.

Implement simple steps to calm down your nerves and channelize your anxiety to do the contrary. Calming yourself may include studying continuously for long hours, and then taking a small break doing things which do not involve the subject.

These small breaks may consist of taking a stroll around the campus, or the walk, watching a short episode of a light-hearted TV show such as F.R.I.E.N.D.S. or any activity which helps you to calm down and lay off that stress.

Oh! Don’t you remember the episode where Chandler goes on kissing everyone, even Joey, such a great laugh!

Thus, in order to score high, you need to have control over your senses and make sure that you do not get distracted.

Never fall back from reading

This is one of the most basic tips that might come in handy for law students. Reading is the most essential activity throughout law school. A law student cannot survive those years of education without a reading habit. Law students have a reputation in the world for reading a lot. Every week you need to understand and learn what the law is.

Ah! Personally, I hate reading. I’d love to read horror stories all day but then it is not going to make me pass my exams you know.

One must be ready to read anytime, anywhere and in any condition as well. You must do the reading of the courses thoroughly that have been assigned to you for the semester. Skimming over through the course content is not a very good option as you will not be able to achieve effective learning through that.

For scoring high in exams, you need to have a deeper and thorough understanding of the subject. This can only be achieved by reading.

Always be updated with the content of the course. If you fall back once, you might never keep up again with it.

It is like the latest episode of Game of Thrones where you were not able to follow it and then you end up lagging behind all of your friends.

Read at the time of the day when you are most alert. Also, read in a location where you will not get distracted from something or tempted to do something else. The more you read, the more knowledgeable you will be.

Besides gaining knowledge on the subject, reading helps you in various other ways. It gives you useful insights which might come in handy for your subject as well.

Yeah, like the number of people going mad doing law every year? No, I’m kidding.

If you do not understand anything, read repeatedly. Do not give up on reading. It might get difficult sometimes reading those twisted statutes and case laws. It would be problematic for you to score high in the exams without understanding.

Even Ishaan from Taare Zameen Par understood everything after being taught twice or thrice.

Once you’ve developed a reading habit, you’ll be able to memorize quickly and efficiently. Reading daily improves your retaining power as well. It also helps you to comprehend things easily. Thus, reading is the most essential habit to formulate while being in a law school.

Always remember Rancho from 3 idiots and say to yourself All is well!

Establishing a routine

“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine” – Mike Murdock

It is extremely necessary for a law student to follow a proper routine to score high. Creating and following a routine is important to law school success.

I’ve always failed at following a routine, asking you to do so is too much. Although, if you’re able to follow one, Oh! You could be like a sorcerer doing magic and achieving whatever you want in life.

By establishing a routine early on, you can control your stress levels and also be ahead of your classmates. Following the routine will also help you in managing your time efficiently as well. Include almost everything in your routine. The period of your study should be at that point when you stay the most alert and concentrated.

Routines help you attain discipline. You cannot survive law school without having a fixed routine.

Milkha Singh would not have won so many medals without a routine.

A law school has a ton of activities to get involved in. Starting right from extra-curricular activities to sports events, nothing is left out. Thus, one needs to manage everything in a proper manner.

You’ll have a fixed duration of studying for a couple of hours. The other activities shall be managed in the same way as well. Chalking out the hours of study in the routine will not only help you to score well in the exams but also enable you to have proficiency on the subject.

A routine helps you to stay focused on your goals and can help you manage your workload as well. It is easier to say it, but it is difficult to stick to a routine most of the time.

For this, include other people in your routine who might have the same goal as you do, participate in study groups of your interest or you may also have a reading partner. This will help you to be accountable.

Go to class

Maintaining that 75% of attendance sometimes becomes a pain.

Most of the times, professors cover some material in the class that you do not come across reading, so failing to attend the classes will put you at a disadvantage when you take the final exam.

Instead of the bookish knowledge, professors in the answer scripts look for what they taught in the classroom.

If you had gone to class, and you’ve mentioned that thing, you will be at an edge over other students. You will definitely end up scoring high marks in the exam.

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Moreover, you will also get debarred from that semester if you do not fulfill the minimum attendance required for sitting in the exams.

Be attentive in class

Physical attendance in the class just won’t help you to score high in exams. Being mentally present and staying attentive will.

I have noticed this in my classes that students who are responsive to professors score incredibly well in their end-term exams.

Students who sit on the last bench of the class sometimes flunk in the subject as well.

No, students on the last benches are not the most creative minds.

Most of the students spend their time in class using their mobile phones playing games or shopping online.

I have had a personal experience with this, students around either playing PubG mobile or browsing through Amazon.in. Instead of that, you could browse through LawSikho and see the courses that they provide. Those courses will definitely help you in scoring good marks by giving you insights about the field.

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If you really care about your future, stop using mobile phones in the class and start paying attention to that learned man teaching you.

Be responsive and participate in the class.

Just being attentive and listening to what the professor is speaking will not help your case. You also need to participate in the class by asking questions and clearing your doubts as well.

You have to keep pinching the Professor. Never refrain from asking any type of question.

Students learn well when they are actively engaged in the learning process. If you’re timid and hesitate in asking questions in class, go to their chambers and ask them there.

Always make notes

This is also one of the most important things to do while studying for law exams. The content in the subjects is so diverse that you might not be able to remember all of it. Thus, make notes of those things which you think are relevant and will help you in scoring high in the exams.

I’m not asking you to be a nerd of course, but yeah this is the least you could do to help your case.

While in the classroom, it is impossible to jot down everything that your professor is teaching you.

Also, you’re not Mike Ross that you have a pictographic memory.

Thus, go ahead and note down the important points. For this, you’ll have to be well read. Also, before going for your next lecture study the topics which the professor is going to teach.

By doing this, you will have a rough idea about what the professor is going to elucidate upon. It will also help you in understanding what the most important points are.

Making notes not only helps you to have a better understanding of the subject but it also helps in figuring out the most important or most asked topic in the exam.

Professors tend to mention the important topics for exams in the classroom. Thus, you’d be able to know those only when you pay attention and make notes.

Also, always make your own notes. Every student has a different approach to make notes. Some tend to include almost each and everything whereas some include only some parts of the lecture. You have to take your own approach of making notes which will be helping you in scoring high in the exams.

You could refer to the courses provided by LawSikho to make your study more efficient. These courses provide insights which are extremely helpful for scoring high marks in the end term exams.

Memorize material weekly

The human brain cannot retain things forever. On average, a human brain can retain material only to a maximum of three days. Thus, you need to go over the material again and again as to retain them.

Remember the famous saying? Rome was not built in a day.

This applies here as well, you cannot score high marks if you do not study continuously.

You’ll be much more successful in exams if you learn and memorize the material each week after you finish updating your notes. If you try to cram over three months’ of study material into a couple of weeks then it will be a problem. You will have a much better grasp of the whole subject and will be able to apply it more efficiently.

Even if it seems boring going over the material again and again, keep doing it because that is how you will be able to score high in exams.

You will be able to retain things for a longer period of time by following this.

Watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. or HIMYM all over again will not be boring for you, or will it be?

Forming a study group

Study groups can be a valuable learning tool. Find and form a study group which has the same interests as you do.

Study groups are the most infamous study tool. People believe that there is more gossip than studies.

But, when it comes to study-groups, they are more efficient when it comes to learning.

The reason being sometimes you might not be able to understand a specific part of the textbook. The same part of the textbook might be clear to some other student in the group.

This becomes beneficial for you as you can approach that student and seek help from him. For example, there is a constitutional law study group and you cannot understand the rules required for interpreting the constitution. You can go ahead and ask questions regarding this to clear your doubt.

When you study by yourself, you will always see the material from only your perspective. Study groups are the best places to find newer perspectives. As you begin listening and start to ask questions, you will start to begin a broader perspective regarding a particular point.

Study groups are very beneficial in terms of removing the monotonous routine of sitting alone and studying at a long stretch. The monotonous study routine has a cascading effect in the long run. Prefer making a study group and see for yourself scoring high in your exams.

Make your case briefs

Sometimes, the case laws may run into hundreds of pages which makes it impossible to remember the whole of it e.g. the Kesavananda Bharati case .

This judgment runs into 600+ pages and is one of the most important case laws in the arena of Constitutional Law. It is impossible for a person to remember each and every page of this judgment. So, for the purpose of remembering it efficiently, you could make a case brief of that case and note down all the significant legal changes, holdings of the case, and the rationale of the court behind the decision.

You can also keep a small pocket-sized notebook which has all the most important points of the case.

For instance, when you get a practical approach-based question in the exam paper, you could actually answer those questions supporting them by a case law.

The judgment, the ratio and also the dissenting opinion if there is any, could be written in the answer stating how your approach is correct. It also depicts how the court has justified the approach as well. This would help you in scoring high marks as your answer has been justified with the supportive case laws.

Thus, make case briefs efficiently as they are very important for a law student.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Studying continuously without and breaks will have a toll on your mind. Your mind will get saturated and you won’t be able to retain things thereon. Take small breaks and outings during the period of studying to make study time efficient.

Practice past year papers

The best way to score high in exams is to practice the past year papers. Past year papers are available with the library in the respective colleges. Make sure to understand the pattern of the question paper, and also the approach with which the professors make them.

Oh! Practice makes a man perfect, no other quote better than this.

Apply that approach to your study as well for scoring well in the exams. Practicing past year papers will help you to know the type of questions that are asked and also perfect your skill of writing answers.

Don’t procrastinate

Never procrastinate regarding studying. If you procrastinate, things keep piling up and then, in the end, you’re not able to accomplish anything. The best way to stop procrastinating is to set deadlines for yourself earlier than what your professor provides.

Voldemort would not have been the greatest magician of dark arts if he would have kept postponing his practice of the dark arts.

Taking the time to do it in advance will save you so much time later. The euphoria of not worrying about reading or case briefing for class because you already did it is unparalleled. So, stop procrastinating and start working hard.

Get way ahead

One tip that would help a law student is to start reading for the class the week before it starts. This is helpful because you’re really ahead, and you can go with your non-procrastination streak in preparing for the class throughout the semester. Try to stay in a class or two ahead, it will actually provide you with a better understanding of the subject.

Get proper sleep

Sleep is quintessential for scoring high in exams. You need to give your mind the required rest that it needs to function properly again. The effort and time needed for a law degree are entirely different from getting any other bachelor’s degree.

It requires a lot of patience to survive those five years of law school without going nuts. Thus, for studying and keeping your brain healthy, get a proper amount of sleep.

Time Management

This is the most generic tip where you would have got it anywhere, but it is also the most important thing. You need to be an organizational wizard. You have to learn how to manage your time effectively.

For instance, think of your day as a 9-5 job if you do not have lectures, study during the gaps.

Revising the material, again and again, will help you to have control over your knowledge. Sometimes what happens is that if you fail to revise, you may forget one of the most crucial case laws or an important legal point.

As there are many case laws and points, that it becomes difficult to remember. Thus, revision is the key to success. It will actually take time for you to work out which method is the best for you, but eventually, you’ll figure it out.

Clear your doubts

Sometimes, it gets really tricky to understand a specific provision in the statute. You can go ahead and get your doubts cleared by contacting the lecturer/professor of that subject. Having your concepts clear about that law will help you in the exam later on. A dubious mind will hinder you from scoring high.

Healthy habits

In order to keep your brain healthy, you will need to keep up with healthy habits. Exercising daily and eating healthy food will keep your body in a healthy position. This, in turn, it will keep your brain healthy. 2-minute Maggi noodles is not a healthy choice of food.

12 AM-midnight snacking is also not healthy, come on eat healthily!

Also, do not bury yourself in the books. Go out and have a run across the park or start playing a sport at your law school. If you do not have a healthy body, you’ll feel lethargic throughout the day and thus, you will not be able to function properly.

What can you do while answering the questions?

The tips given down below are to be used during the paper writing time. These can be helpful.

Use your reading time wisely

In some law exams, you have an allocated time for reading the question paper. The most important part of the exam is to read the question paper and understand the question.

If this is fulfilled, you will be able to answer the questions efficiently. Read the question straight, thoroughly and steadily. Just keep reading, it is not unusual to be nervous and not be able to understand a few first lines of the paper.

But, don’t keep on with reading the whole three hours, remember you have to write as well.

Always structure your answer properly

Give a proper structure to your answer to make it easier for the professor to understand.

State the issues first, then apply the rule of law in the second step. The third step is the applicability of the law to the current facts or situation. Conclude your answer with the conclusion.

This is popularly known as the IRAC technique.

These steps can also be followed while making your memorials.

Allocate your time during the exam

It is completely illogical and irrational not to allocate your time in a law exam. Always allocate your time according to the marks allotted to the questions.

So, give more time to the questions which have higher marks and lesser time to the ones with lesser marks.

Even if you ran out of time and were not able to finish the short questions, you have a chance of scoring higher in the other question.

Decide the question you want to do first

It is not necessary to start the paper with Question No. 1. Generally, it is preferred by students to do those questions first which they know best.

There might be areas of law that are more difficult to understand, with complicated concepts and inconsistent and uncertain case laws. Strategically, you are more likely to achieve higher marks overall if you leave the easiest question to last.

Deal with the hardest question first or second. Complete questions that are somewhere in between in difficulty either second or third.

Usage of legal authority

Provide primary legal support for your answer to make it more compelling. A law exam should always have authority in the form of either statute or case law to support every statement of law that you make. In most of the law schools, you need to provide a summary of the case law for supporting your answer. For this, you’ll have to make case briefs efficiently as already mentioned.

And for statues, it is best to write the particular section and the clauses that are applicable in your case.

Use proper language

You should always use clear, concise and comprehensive language. It becomes easier for the professor if the answer is written in clear terms.

Use proper and fully-formed sentences. Use appropriate legal language while writing the paper.

You don’t need to flaunt your highly rich vocabulary in front of the professor.

Avoid legalese. It is unusual for a law student these days to use the stylistic language of law such as “heretofore”, “forethought”, etc. However, it is important to use certain legal terms such as locus standi . It is also crucial to know the meaning of these terms to use them appropriately.

Avoid lengthy answers

It becomes tedious for the professor to check lengthy answers. A law professor on an average has to check almost 100 copies in a go. This becomes really taxing.

Thus, keep your answers precise. Make use of less superfluous words. Keep your answer specific and to the point.

The professor is looking for certain things in your answers such as the identification of the legal issue, the legal principles and the application of the law to the facts. Also, do not rewrite the facts.

It becomes repetitive.

Be clear in what you state.

A great law answer demonstrates the proper application of legal reasoning and analysis. You have to clearly explain the approach adopted by you in reaching that particular conclusion.

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November 18, 2023

The word jurisprudence derives from the Latin term juris prudentia, which means “the study, knowledge, or science of law.” In the United States jurisprudence commonly means the philosophy of law.

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This article provides Jurisprudence notes with case laws . As a learner, you can consider it as a free, online, and self-placed course. As a competitive exams aspirant, you will find it perfect for Judicial Service Exams, UPSC CSE Law Optional, etc. And as a reader, this article on Jurisprudence is sufficient for you to learn or research on Jurisprudence!

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What is Jurisprudence?


Nature and Scope of Jurisprudence
Classification of Law
Purpose and Function of Law
Administration of Justice

Basics of Jurisprudence


Law According to John Austin
Do ‘Law’ and ‘Justice’ have different Meanings?
Jurisprudence and its Relevance in Contemporary Times
Distributive Justice: Concept and Application in various Legal Systems
Concept of Corrective Justice: Meaning and Analysis
Application of the Concept of Social Justice in India
Morality and Law: A Critical Evaluation
Study of Dharma in The Light of Hindu Jurisprudence
Theory of Utilitarianism: A Critical Analysis
Mahabharata Through the Eyes of Indian Laws
Social Contract Theory
Concept of Legal Pluralism
Does Arbitration Hinder the Growth of Common Law Jurisprudence?
Application of Concept of Social Justice in India


Schools of Jurisprudence
Historical School of Jurisprudence
Analytical School of Jurisprudence

Concept and Sources of Law


Sources of Law: Meaning and Types
Custom: Definition, Types and Essential
Legislation as A Source of Law
What are Precedents and Precedents as a Source of Law
Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dicta

Legal Status of Persons


Legal Status of Unborn Children in India
Legal status and Rights of Unborn Persons
Legal Status and Rights of Lunatic and Drunken Person
Legal Status of a Dead Person
Position and Legal Status of Minor in India
Legal Rights of Animals
Jallikattu and Animals Rights in India
Animal Cruelty and Laws Dealing with Protection of Animal Rights
Legal Status of Corporate Personality
Theories of Corporate Personalities

Rights and Duties


Legal Rights: Nature, Characteristics, Kinds
Theories of Legal Rights
Hohfeld’s Analysis of Legal Rights
Concept of Duties in Jurisprudence
Correlation between Rights and Duties in Jurisprudence
Liability in Jurisprudence

Ownership, Possession and Property


Ownership in Jurisprudence: Meaning, Kinds, Incidents and Relevance in Contemporary Times
Concept of Possession of Property in India
Concept of Property and types of Property
Laws Dealing with Transfer of Property in India

Concept of Punishment


Theories of Punishment
Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
Reformative Theory of Punishment in India

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How To Write A Case Study In Law Exam: Expert Guide

Writing a case study can be a challenging task for law students as it requires a lot of thinking. The situation gets worse when you have to write a case study for a law exam. As it is a part and parcel of law exams, it is impossible to evade it. Hence, you should do everything possible to master this subject and write it excellently.

How To Write A Case Study In Law Exam

To curate any case study, you should consider the following facts:

In-depth analysis: You should study a subject in-depth which is quintessential. Deep analysis of a subject ensures that you don’t miss out on any part of the subject unturned.

Take Notes: It is always important to note down the important points and facts of the subject that you study.

Gather facts: To ensure the accuracy of your study, it is necessary that you make a note of the facts.

Get perfect solutions: Your first step is to identify the problem and look out for ways to get perfect solutions.

A law case study is a detailed and intensive study of a person, group, or social phenomenon. Usually, you conduct a study on a case that is solved by a judge. It investigates a problem, analyses solutions with supporting evidence. A case study helps you determine the success or failure of a case. You can use the law to solve various case scenarios. Check civil judge salary .

While you have an overview of case studies in law exams, now it’s time to understand how to write a case study in a law exam.

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How to write a case study in a law exam?

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Once you identify the case, the next step is to study the case. You need to check if your case meets the following criteria:

Provides insights into the subject you are studying.
Challenge the existing theories.

To write a case study, the candidate should have proper knowledge of the subject. The candidate should read the case study opinions and facts, later analyze the situation carefully. He/she should take short notes and highlight the points that are important.

Concentrate on Analysis

While analyzing, the candidate should focus on 2 to 5 fundamental problems of the case. It can include questions like Why do they exist? What are the impacts, and who’s responsible for these problems? At the start of the paragraph, the candidate should introduce the protagonists, then include the topic of the case.

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Describe the synopsis

Drafting a summary of the case is important to completely understand the case. The candidate should describe all the characters of the story chronologically and also the problems included.

Curate the best solutions

Candidates should perform trial and error methods to find the best solutions that fit the problem. Reviewing course readings, recalling discussions, and candidates’ own experiences can help find the best solutions. Brainstorming is one of the best possible ways to find the solution.

Choose the Best solution

In the brainstorming session list out all the possible solutions and choose the best one. To choose the best, the candidate should examine the strengths and weaknesses of the answers listed. Considering strong evidence and its pros and cons can help in finding the right solution.

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Use IRAC rule

IRAC stands for Issue, the Rule of Law, Analysis, and Conclusion. In this method, the candidate should first discover and identify issues in the case. Let’s understand each part of the rule below:

Issues will not be visible sometimes, so the candidate should look for the issue carefully. Problems vary based on the matter for example they include negligence, malpractice, abuse of power, several liabilities, amongst other subjects. One case can have several issues, so it’s better to discuss the problems separately. Before moving ahead, the candidate should confirm if he/she has spotted the issue that the model writer intended.

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The Rule of Law

The candidate should determine the rule of law that should be incorporated in the case study. For every issue discovered, the candidate should find the best rule of law. Ensure that they are relevant. There is no need to note down every rule of law while writing a case study. The candidate should only review each rule of law cautiously.

The candidate should analyze the case study to discover the possible solutions to the problem. He/she should relate the practical part with the theory part while writing a case study in the law exam. The candidate should not only suggest a solution but also present some facts to support the suggested solutions.

The candidate should ensure that they have chosen a relevant rule of law. After selecting the rule of law, they can apply it to the situations discovered. The candidate should make lawyerly arguments on behalf of the defendant and also the plaintiff. Imagining what the plaintiff would argue and what the defendant would say on their part will help analyze the case study.

The candidate should be more creative while making any arguments. Candidates should argue based on the facts and how they integrate them in one way or another. Also, the candidate can state the policy reason and why the case should turn one way and not the other. Candidates can also argue based on why one should use the model rule instead of the traditional rule.

The conclusion is the final part of writing a case study. It should be based on the reasons why the issue was raised based on the rule of law and use the judgment of relevant use case laws. While finalizing the case study, the candidate should write the final verdict of each situation. Preferably, the candidate can state that the plaintiff is likely to win for the defendant.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q). What is the full form of IRAC?

A). IRAC stands for Issue, the Rule of Law, Analysis, and Conclusion.

Q). How to choose the best solution to a problem?

A). To choose the best, the candidate should examine the strengths and weaknesses of the answers listed. Considering strong evidence and its pros and cons can help in finding the right solution.

Q). How to find the problems?

A). While analyzing, the candidate should focus on 2 to 5 fundamental problems of the case. It can include questions like Why do they exist? What are the impacts, and who's responsible for these problems?

Q). Why is in-depth analysis necessary?

A). Deep analysis of a subject ensures that you don’t miss out on any part of the subject unturned.

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