Originally Posted by Mr. Max

Congratulations buddy, It is a fantastic experience. The LSAT is a cake walk compared to what you're going to go through your first year. The first year is the killer, if you make it through that, you're home free. I went to a night school while working full time. I saw people who were better students than I throw in the towel that first year. We had 43 students at the beginning of our first year class, 10 of us made it to the second year. A whole lot of them flunked out but quite a few chickened out. The second third and fourth year (3/4time) they just threw us all in the same class and rotated the years. I went 1,4,2,3,. Very weird!

Make friends with the students who are a year ahead of you and ask them to help you prepare for your exams. They went through them and still remember the issues and pitfalls. Professors hate coming up with new exam questions and often re-use or re-hash the same exams year to year. Even if they write new exams, they often file the old ones in the library so the students can read them, read them!

Buy sample essays in the bookstore. Avoid the long ones, they're perfect, but you will never have enough time to replicate them on a test. Seagles (sp?) are good and doable. Issue spotting books are good and of course flashcards. Law in a box are really good but rather long, great for the Multistate BAR exam, but very time consuming. A short stack is better for class essays. Canned briefs will kill you, they are like a drug. They make it easy to brief but you will pay on the days of your BAR exam. You gotta read the cases in their entirety.

I took the California BAR once and failed it. A week before I was going to take it again my dad had a stroke that ultimately killed him. I was executor of the estate and one thing led to another. To make a long story short I never took it again. My girlfriend is always bugging me to give it another shot or two.

I'm tempted, Your excitement is encouraging and an inspiration to this sixty year old.