Multiple Choice

The entire section i s basedon Michael Josepheson, Evaluation and Grading in Law School, AALSSection on Teaching (1984).

Remember who will be tripped up on Multiple Choice Questions

• Panickers
• People operating by instinct
• People who are unprepared and don't know the law

Panickers

• inhibits memory from operating
• fail to read carefully

People operating by instinct

•  designed to apply legal principles to factual situations in a rational discipline manner
• instinct will cause you to:
• overlook stated facts
• let emotion take precedent over reasoning

People who are unprepared and don't know the law