So I just finished a four hour examination over advanced civil procedure. We were permitted to use the rule book we were issued and nothing else. We could annotate the rule book, but only with information about the rules, not any additional information learned in the class. So that's about a third of the material.

We were given a fact pattern where you had to go based only upon the facts at hand. The problem with that is there are likely additional facts which could have/would have changed my analysis. This sprint test is designed for me to basically brain-dump in a specific order.

The problem with this test is that it doesn't seem to have any real world application. In the real world you spend months on a case, developing strategy, and thinking about these things. You have opportunity to work one side of the issue and predict the other side, and respond to the other side. The time and distance gives one perspective on what would be the correct answer and why.

So basically I just wasted four hours of my life proving that I could spew tons of information. I don't see how that helps me do the real world analysis or strategy planning that really needs to be done. Great. :/

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How can actions that are wrong lead to a greater good? - Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)

My guess is the education system has a scratch-back program with the company that makes the rules book...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

And I thought high-school geometry was a waste, but have you ever tried to cut a round cake into 11 equal pieces????

(point being, it may not seem like it's a RL app now, but it may just sneak up on ya down the road.... )

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

When I was a kid, my Dad had me and my brother load a pickup load of hay. He told us exactly how to do it and then stood back and watched while we did it just like he told us to. Then, after we were done, he asked us how we liked doing it his way. "His way" was to stack up a row as tall as the cab and then stack the next row up until the truck was full. We both told him that we thought there was an easier way to do it. "NOW you're learning." he said. Sometimes you need to do something the hardest way possible in order to find the best way to do it. Had my Dad told us an easier way to load hay, we would have accepted it as the best way, but by making us do it the worst way, he pushed us to think of a better way, something that we wouldn't have done had the job been easier. Some lessons aren't about what you learn, but about how you think.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

Should've been in school learning how to correctly say "my brother and I" instead of "me and my brother"...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

And then pay attention in spelling class to include the 'd' on the word and.

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

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"A rising tide has lifted all yachts." Warren Buffett

Obama is not a dark skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free health care; you're thinking of Jesus.

Hey...

Do you see me picking apart other people's grammar?...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

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"A rising tide has lifted all yachts." Warren Buffett

Obama is not a dark skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free health care; you're thinking of Jesus.

correct! I break it down if I can't see it right away:

my Dad had me and my brother load a pickup load of hay.

my Dad had me load a pickup load of hay.

my Dad had my brother load a pickup load of hay.

my Dad had I load a pickup load of hay.

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