"Good Luck?" No Way!

Professor Elizabeth Stillman (Suffolk University Law School) refuses to wish her students "good luck" as they shuffle down the corridors toward their final exams. “I would say good luck," she tells them, "but you don’t need it because you have worked hard to know the material and you know how to take this exam.”

This is the mind set to have when you wake up each exam morning. Sure, there's some luck involved ... the topic you discussed in depth with your study group last week may show up as the major issue in an essay exam question.  Or the professor may have "borrowed" the fundamental framework of a bar exam question you reviewed recently.  That's good luck, right?

Well, a little. But you'd only be familiar with the major issue if you had actually prepared for and attended the study group; you'd only recognize the old bar exam question if you had reviewed old bar exam questions to prepare for your exam.  That's not luck ... that's intelligent preparation and planning.

I go along with Professor Stillman.  Leave nothing to chance.