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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Shoot, at law school the school library maintained the test banks. Every professor encouraged students to look over his or her old tests so that students would have an idea of what to expect.
Exactly.
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I was initially thinking of the informal test bank practice. Undergrads and graduates who "under the table" hand off old exams.
But thanks for reminding me of the formal test bank process. The formal test bank doesn't exist for course exams in many graduate departments but it exists for the preliminary/qualifying exams. The graduate department/graduate school keeps the exam questions (often organized by exam year) and publishes them on the website and in files. You have to get permission from the student to read the answers they have on file or have kept in their own records.
But this tends to be a more sophisticated learning process than that of the average (not every, so please no "I used it because...." confessions, folks
) undergraduate who is looking for quick answers to an upcoming exam.
As you agreed, graduate and law students who use these exams and example answers are aiding in their own learning. They generally know that the literature is too plentiful to choose not to study on their own and rely on old exams. They use it to get some ideas and use as a study guide.
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