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Part of the roadmap's goal is to build check points into your learning so that you can determine if you are progressing as you should be. For instance, if by the end of the first month you are still having difficulty doing case briefs, then be proactive and remedy that because without the ability to do effective case briefs your ability to understand your legal studies is handicapped. This is not to say that after your first month you will not make changes to how you do case briefs; you may make changes to how you perform a case brief throughout your career as an attorney whether you practice as a public defender, a mesothelioma attorney, or you become involved in environmental issues. Despite what changes in case briefing you may make, it is important that a solid case brief foundation be developed very soon after you begin law school. Additionally, once you begin drafting outlines as suggested in First Semester-Roadmap you will build natural checkpoints into your outlines. This will give you an opportunity to really determine if you are grasping what a professor has discussed in the recent past. If at some specific point you realize that you are not grasping a topic as well as you would like, immediately make time to review that topic. Also, go see that course's professor, the academic success professor, and/or tutors for that subject. Do not wait for the end of the semester to get guidance on that topic because for sure at the end of the semester the resources available for assistance are overloaded with everyone trying to get assistance. Your main goal for entering the study period for finals is to make the topics discussed during the semester a review. The more the end of the semester studying is a review, the better you should do on the final, and vice-versa, the more the end of semester studying is learning, the more difficult it will be for you to do well on the final. Another related article on this website is First Semester-Roadmap, Explained. Below are two additional articles that discuss finals. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/preparation_exams.html Good luck in law school! Michael Santana
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