Siegel's Contracts: Essay and Multiple-Choice Questions & Answers, 5th Edition

If you are anything like the typical 1L at my law school, you are probably reading this when Final Exams are about a month away. Not to worry! This book was a great help in preparing myself and many others for our final and to get a better grasp of Contract Law in General. My biggest fear when it came to the Final exam was how to write a great Law school essay. This book although not in the IRAC format most of my teachers demand, helped me do just that. The booked helped me solidify what I thought I knew onto paper.I would recommend buying this book and the Contract's E&E, together these two books helped me do very well in Contracts!Good Luck 1L's

I wish I'd had this book when I took first-year Contracts in law school many years ago. As the author states in the introduction, our law school stressed briefing cases and at that time, there was no instruction as to how to write a good exam answer. Too bad, since that's the same technique a practicing attorney does all the time. Seems that would have been a good skill to teach. "Trickle-down" doesn't work in economics or politics, and it doesn't work in the case-briefing method of learning the law. You might learn all the rules, and outline until you are blue in the face, but it really doesn't get the job done when writing exams. This book will teach you well.

Highly recommended. High number of multiple choice and essay questions with answers. Came recommended by other law students and professors

I have to update the review of this book - I still do not like the essays, they are too perfect, and I am not going to write that way on the essays - however, and this is big - for the FYLSX in California, I have found at least one MCQ in each of Siegel's books on Torts, Contracts and Criminal Law which are EXACTLY the same on the MCQ section of the FYLSX! In this regard, this might just up my rating to about a five star or more rating!We have to master why the right answers are right and why the wrong answers are wrong - in this regard, the Siegel's books offer us that explanation. There are only about 100 MCQ's in each book, so it won't take too long to practice the MCQ's and study why we answer the way we do... I wish I had noticed this sooner.

There are not many books on the market that have good single topic - multiple choice questions for something like MBE prep. This book could fill that gap but the questions are confusing. The author conflates issues. His questions are too long. His explanations are confusing. Sometimes his answers are just plain wrong, sometimes they are so poorly worded that the answers do not make sense. Occasionally, it seems like he updated the questions without updating the explanation from one edition to the next - the characters in the hypo will have different names or the facts in the answer will not match those of the question.If you suffered through law school you will be familiar with professors who just do not care if students understand or not. There are also professors who delight in keeping students confused all semester, rather than teach them the law (they claim this teaches students to think like a lawyer, as if such a low standard would be tolerated in any other profession.) Siegel no longer teaches nor does he update these books with his name on them. Instead he sends emails to new bar admittees in California offering to be their recruiter. I'd steer clear of anything associated with such sloppy work. He clearly does not care if students learn the law based on the book with his name on it. I doubt he will be of any value as a recruiter, either.The essays also lack something that would be of great value to students. Would it be too much to have good answers, mediocre answers and poor answers to one or two essays? It is pretty painful to start writing essays and only be able to compare them to the professor's ideal answer. We could mark our progress if we had some C, B- or B+ answers to compare to. Nor do we have any idea about how long each answer should take a student to write. The professor's model answer in most cases will take most students way more than an hour. Would it be so hard to simply write 45 minutes, 30 minutes, or 90 minutes at the end of each essay question? That is what the writers would do if they had any intention to be the least bit helpful to students. Instead what you get is a professor's answer that the vast majority of students could never hope to produce, could never write on time and cannot use to improve.

Has a series of good question to prepare you for your finals

Easy to read and focus on issues described. Presents with the reader able to understand what needs to be focused on doing writing an essay.

If you want to focus on the substantive and not so much the test-taking skill, this is a great book. It has 99 MCQs and good thorough answers. The one for torts is especially thought provoking.