Re: Whose starting law school in the fall?
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Typing fast is, simply, a ridiculous assertion for a top skill entering law school. If you disagree, I would suggest taking many typing tutorials over the summer. Your grades will show the hard work that you've done.
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You're entitled to your opinion but I have a handful of friends who we're 1Ls last year at top 10 law schools, and the common thing all of them have told me is that they wished they could type faster. Often they weren't able to get everything in their finals that they wanted to just because they could only knock out 8 or 9 pages in 3 hrs instead of 11 or 12.
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how did they do in classes? I'm curious b/c while typing fast surely does not hurt and being able to type a complete answer is great, I don't know that it is imperative to receiving a high grade.
I definitely scored very high on tests where I did not write as much but hit all of the issues and was very succint in my writing. However, essay grading is very subjective so that may just have been what those particular profs wanted.
The need for typing fast also varies by test as well. Some tests are racehorses which require you to manage your time very well and obviously typing fast does not hurt and can help - though I would not say determanitive or even imperative. However, in longer essay exams, time is often not as big of an issue and the impact of typing faster will be much less and possibly wholly irrelevant (assuming you can type at a normal speed).
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