As what is likely to be one of the final comments on here, I'd also like to point out one thing I forgot to mention earlier but that has infuriated me this year at CLS: multiple choice exams. So far I have had two professors who have given exams that are half multiple choice (Civ Pro and Property). In both cases the profs provided us with multiple "practice exams" but they only had the essay questions. To be fair my civ pro prof did give us around 5-10 sample multiple choice questions but my property prof, explainging that MC questions are very tough to write a lot of, did not provide us with any. In other words, they both re-used their questions from year to year. Maybe I'm cynical, maybe I'm bitter, but it seems to me that re-using multiple choice questions like that from year to year seems kind of lazy. It also doesn't seem like it is a good way of testing students at what is supposed to be a top law school. Aren't we supposed to be learning how to think like lawyers, approach legal problems like lawyers, and then apply what we've learned in an intelligent and creative manner? At least that's what I was hoping for...not a rote memorization fill in the bubble test. Also, once again if we're only getting one test and theoretically one bit of feedback all term, I do not think it is at all unreasonable to want to have a chance to actually set pen to paper and write and express ourselves instead of bubbling in 50 answers on a scantron sheet. It just brings us back to the question of how we're going to improve law school and how we as students are supposed to improve at law school if we're not getting any feedback. And this seems like a more extreme example, because in these cases we're not really even getting a chance to write down or demonstrate any of our real work.

-- AlexLawrence - 11 Jun 2008