Law & Business | Professor Bainbridge

Students swapping exams online

From a discussion page at AutoAdmit.com:

Hey UCLA folks, any chance one of you could send me Bainbridge's old exams/answers for Business Associations???

UCLA student? Student at another school whose teacher uses my casebook? Either way, it reminds me of the need for exam security (an issue that's already bitten me on the tuchus once this exam season). It's an online swapmeet out there.

Posted on Monday, December 18 2006 | Permalink

You mean some law professors re-use old exams?

Posted by on 12/19 at 05:17 PM

I’m a law student. Aren’t we supposed to study by doing practice exams and comparing them to model answers made by our professors? Isn’t this the reason they’re archived and made accessible by registrars, libraries, and administrations at virtually every law school?

Posted by on 12/19 at 06:13 PM

Yes, some faculty reuse exams, which is a practice the Internet makes even more unsafe than it was back in the dark ages when I went to law school and the law review had a double secret file of old exams for members to use.

Posted by Steve Bainbridge on 12/19 at 09:45 PM

I’m confused. At my law school almost all professors’ previous exam questions (and often model answers) were on file in the library for anyone to check out.

Why would access to old exams be a problem?

Posted by on 12/20 at 10:40 AM

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