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...familiar Advanced Placement Examinations, which let able high school students skip certain required freshman courses. An advanced placement student still has to earn all of his credit hours for graduation on campus, which means that he has to work harder than his fellows. Now E.T.S. has worked out an exam that tests knowledge and achievement gained in modern, college-like high schools (or any other way) and determines its worth in terms of credit hours. The examination is based on nationwide tests of 2,600 students completing the second year of college...
Every so often the CRIMSON reprints the following exam-period article. Written by Donald Carswell '50, it appeared originally in June of 1950. It won the Dana Reed Prize for that year, and also helped a fair number of people to succeed in beating the system--which is always gratifying to Us and threatening to Them...
...knowledge with forced-draft methods. Chicago's ebullient crammer, Thomas J. Harty, spends seven hours a day firing off questions, listening to the class consensus, then firing back the correct answers. The method works so well that one year 92% of his students passed the Illinois bar exam. Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness. Austin Lawyer Arthur ("The Garrulous Greek") Mitchell, who claims to have crammed half the lawyers in Texas, dramatizes the "life...
Acronyms are favorite cramming tools. Wicks students use IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) to crack almost any exam question. A whole year's law-school course in contracts is reduced to PACIFIC CAT DID, each letter standing for a critical legal factor-P for parties, A for assent, C for consideration, and so forth. At New York's Practising Law Institute, cases in which a published and mailed notice suffices to get service in a civil suit, are summed up in MINISTER-Matrimonial actions, In rem property actions, Nonresidents, Incompetents and infants, Stockholders, Traveling residents, Extended statute...
Necessary Evil. None of this preparation prevents some exam takers from ludicrous answers. But in most cases the schools serve the bar examiners' seeming demand-what one Tennessee law dean calls "a Pavlov dog reaction." Says he: "It would be horrible if universities taught people how to pass law exams. We should teach people how to think and act like lawyers, not how to memorize cases." Many bar examiners are now steering toward that standard. But most law schools and bar examiners are still so far apart that the only way for law students to travel from...