Hey y'all, I come from a STEM/Policy background and the first semester exams were a nightmare for me. I just talked to a professor and they said that I had all the material, issues, and citations there but that my organization and strategy was all over the place. Inversely, I had the best policy answer on all my exams. :/

She recommended to me that I make a checklist because it would discipline me to approach the answers in a specific way. The only problem is that a checklist response to 1L courses doesn't come intuitively to me. My outline approach is FIRMLY bullet point outlines that follow along with the structure of the class and topical material. They're huge by the time I'm done, 100~ pages, a case chart, flow charts from online, a selected list of restatements, but I just Ctrl F to answer.

For those of you who can do checklists or checklists are intuitive to, how do you do it? How do you go about making one?