Pwned
Tax was my favorite subject. I studied it pretty much to the exclusion of Family Law (which is today). I had templates and notes and the wherewithall to answer any of the nasty little tricky questions she made available through prior tests. My prof is reasonably transparent and has no problem giving multiple 'A' grades if the students meet the point threshhold.
I worked f**king hard in that class. I thought I could nail an A. I really did.
Yeah . . .
That test kicked my ass.
And not in a 'gee, I was tired but I feel like I did my best on most of the questions' way.
More like a 'holy hell, I have no f**king idea where the authority for that is and cannot answer it in 12 minutes' kind of way.
Did I fail? No... definitely not.
But I feel So. Totally. Screwed.
Writing this at 4:40a.m. ... and now I study for my Family Law exam in less 12 hours.
5 little fish:
I actually started crying (quietly, no one noticed) during my tax exam because it was so hard. I still did fine. I'm sure you will too.
I don't know. I've always had this sort of theory that law exams are harder if you know more about the subject. Knowing more means that you see more of the nuance and complexity, so you feel like you're missing more as you write it out. On an exam where you don't know the material as well, it's easier to walk away having given only a superficial analysis and feel like you did ok. That theory's worked for me about three-quarters of the time--I felt I did terrible but actually did ok.
I'm sure that's what'll happen to you. I hope, anyway.
I hate those! The irony is, you'll probably get an A in family law. For some reason there's an inverse relationship with how much time I spend studying and how well I do in the class. Happened to me last year with BusAss. Studied my butt off for BussAss for days and days. Spent about 6 hours studying for Wills which fell less than 24 hours later. (Didn't even read all of the material!) B- in BusAss, A in Wills.
Hopefully your classmates were saying the same thing!
You're the second person I've heard of who has two exams within 24 hours. UGH!!!!
aww. I know the feeling. Happened for Crim Law and Tax. Curiously.
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