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A major goal---in fact, the major goal---of the first-year curriculum is to develop students' analytic skills, to teach you to “think like lawyers.” And the primary way in which we determine whether students have absorbed that skill is through essay exams. Most students have never encountered essay exams quite like the typical law school exam. It seems appropriate to give you some explanation of the logic behind these exams, together with examples of the type of analysis we expect you to produce.
This Part includes three chapters on the nature of the legal analysis expected on a Torts exam. This chapter discusses the basic analytic approach required on a Torts essay, by pulling single issues out of an essay and illustrating how to address them. The next chapter comes at the problem from the other direction. It provides examples of the typical mistakes students make in answering essay questions. These can be kind of fun, and the explanations should help you to avoid these pitfalls and highlight the proper approach. The last chapter includes several essay questions, with sample answers and some suggestions, from the professor's point of view, about how to approach the questions.