First, BREATHE. Take a minute and take it all in. Feel whatever you need to feel. Take a day, take a walk, or do something to make yourself feel better. But then move on. Remember, you are still in law school. You have a chance to do better.

Second, go talk to all your professors about your final exam. Talk to them even if you did well in their class. All the professors want the students to do well. Ask them how to improve. Ask them what you can do this semester to improve your essay writing, multiple choice, or both. Make sure to take notes of what they said. You need to understand what you didn’t do well and what you did do well.

Fourth, start memorizing and then practicing as soon as possible. You may feel like you have no time. There is always time somewhere. You may really have to look for the time, but there is time somewhere. For me, I try to do as much work as I can to prep for some of my classes for the week. Then in between classes I memorize for one of my classes. Once you have some of the material from class memorized, then start doing practice multiple choice and practice essays.