On the day of the exam, read your outline through once, giving yourself plenty of time to relax in the hour or so just before the test. Avoid overly nervous people. Nervousness is contagious. Talk about anything except the course and the test in the hour or so before.
Exams generally fall into one of the following three categories or any combination thereof.
Issue-spotting questions are detailed factual hypotheticals with multiple parties and as many legal problems as your imagination will allow you to discover. Policy-analysis questions emphasize depth rather than breadth, forcing you to deal with the intricacies of one or two basic legal concepts. Read these directions and follow them to the letter to ensure maximum credit. Get the facts When you read the problem be sure you get the facts straight and thoroughly understand who the parties are, what they did, and what happened to them. Again, pay particular attention to the specific question that is to be answered.