Exam Summer 2009

The exam is a 3-hour closed book exam which consists of three questions for a total of 200 points.

Question One is a short essay of approximately 100 words or less that counts for 25 points.

Question Two is a short essay of approximately 200 words or less that counts for 50 points.

Question Three is a longer essay of approximately 1500 words or less that counts for 125 points.

The exam 4 software does have a running word count feature that allows you to keep track of your word limits.

Good luck. Together, we have survived 3 hours a day of reading Supreme Court prose. As a fellow survivor of pre-session, I will try to remember the immortal words of the Bard in their original beauty when grading your exams:

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;
It is an attribute of God himself;
And earthly power doth then show like God's
When mercy seasons justice.