Between now and Game Day, first, recite your MBE rules every day. Practice MBE analysis every day.
Second, outline two essays every day and compare your answers with sample answers--in the bar course book or in the BarWrite binders. More law! More LAW! Remember that if you use an exception, you must also use the rule as a higher-level rule. And terms in every rule of law cry out to be defined. Learn your law in clumps of rules. You must set off the bells on the bar-exam-o-meter with lots of rules of law. MORE LAW!
Third, in stages, quickly review all of your subjects. Create check-lists in your mind for topics in the major subjects (CPLR, Contracts/UCC, Criminal Law and Procedure, Corporations, Wills, Domestic Relations, Torts, Real Property). The bar exam is difficult because it requires you to have everything top-of-mind. You will need to rely on short-term memory. Get it stocked up. Make sure all your knowledge of law is simultaneously available to you by going over everything, one last time.
Remember, you must get a good night's sleep each night before the bar exam. So your studying will end at noon on Monday. Watch a movie in which the Good Guys win. I like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." My sister, who teaches at DePaul, suggests "Master and Commander."
Watch for further blog posts.
Wishing you the greatest success on the bar exam,
MCG
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