Tips for Multiple Choice Exams in Law School

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Guest: Professor Scott Burnham, University of Montana School of Law

Topic: Exam Tips: How to be better prepared and more successful at taking law school multiple choice tests.

Running Time: 11:14

Click here to download the mp3 file: Burnham_MCQuestions.mp3

Prof. Burnham, author of a number of CALI lessons and podcasts provides students with advice on multiple choice exam questions. Prof. Burnham goes into the different aspects of a multiple choice question: the stimulus, options, key, and distracters. Additionally, Prof. Burnham discusses the different types of multiple choice questions such as questions that test a student’s ability to recall information, those that draw on materials discussed in class, and those that require analysis. Students are taught how to respond to the call of a question, apply IRAC to multiple choice questions, as well as different tactics for eliminating options in a question. At the end of this lesson students will know how to decipher what type of question is being asked, how to spot the specific issue in the question, and how to eliminate the other choices.

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Deb has been Director of Curriculum Development and Associate Counsel for CALI since 1997. During this time, Deb has worked with more than 120 faculty and law librarians and guided more than 700 lessons from start to website. Deb also oversees the development of titles for CALI's OER eLangdell Press. Prior to joining CALI, Deb was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Writing and Research at Chicago-Kent College of Law.