Last week, we discussed the importance of using hypothetical questions as a study tool. You can also study for your classes by using multiple choice questions. Regardless of whether you are doing hypothetical questions or multiple choice questions, do you know what it means to study from the questions?
Merely going through the process of answering the questions isn't enough and "doing questions" may be a waste of your time. Instead, you should learn how to analyze the question and be able to reason through the problem to arrive at the correct answer.
What does this mean? If you can only partially answer the question, or if you are only getting multiple choice questions incorrect, ask yourself:
What does it mean to only know a portion of the material?
Are the correct answers "right" for the right reason or did you answer for the wrong reason or just get lucky, and do you know why the incorrect answers are wrong?
Did you know the law; were you able to identify the controlling law?
Did you correctly read the facts; did you add facts that threw you off course; did you correctly read the question; and did you apply the correct rule to the facts?
Make sure that you are not just going through the motions, but instead really learning the law as you go along by actively learning from the question. It is not cheating to look up a rule, consult your outline, or read a sample answer to help you build an analysis -- you will learn through the repetition and reinforcement of actively doing the work.
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