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CA Bar Prep - Day 65

Posted on July 26, 2008
Today was all about Civ Pro. Also did a couple of CP and W&T essays. 

Looking Back and Moving Forward.

Posted on July 26, 2008
Suspended Animation It has now been 65 days since life in general has been in some kind of suspended animation. Although I definitely do not study all the time — and even when I do, my efficiency rate is worse than an internal combustion engine — I have truly not been able to think of anything [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 64

Posted on July 25, 2008
Worked on Wills, some Trusts, Community Property, and Civ Pro.

CA Bar Prep - Day 63

Posted on July 24, 2008
Worked on Con Law and about half of Wills.

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CA Bar Prep - Day 62

Posted on July 23, 2008
Worked on Torts, some MBEs and quickly went over Con Law once. Will pick up with Con Law again tomorrow. Then, hopefully CP, and W&T. Still can’t seem to get the rules down. People keep telling me that its in there (in my brain) somewhere and will magically pop out during the exam — I sure [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 61

Posted on July 21, 2008
Worked on Prof Responsibility — this is a topic that supposedly straightforward but I am really not sure what my bar prep people were thinking when they created these materials. I think I will have to default to Barbri on this one. Worked on some MBEs as well.

CA Bar Prep - Day 60

Posted on July 21, 2008
Worked on Crim Law & Crim Pro. Issue spotted a couple of Remedies essays and worked on some MBEs.

CA Bar Prep - Day 59

Posted on July 20, 2008
Went through essays written for class to review feedback. Worked on Corps. Reviewed Contracts mini outline. Will work on Crim Law/Pro tomorrow.

CA Bar Prep - Day 58

Posted on July 18, 2008
Worked on Hearsay first thing in the morning, then did some Evidence MBEs. A couple of Evidence Essays. Then switched to Remedies which was a little bit more interesting than Evidence. Stopped studying at 8 PM. 

CA Bar Prep - Day Off

Posted on July 18, 2008
Thanks to a car accident back in 2005, I was in Court for the better part of today trying to recover my out-of-pocket expenses. (No luck … but finally have a trial date set for January 2009). So, its one of an “accidentally-on-purpose” kind of a day off from bar prep...

CA Bar Prep - Day 57

Posted on July 17, 2008
Contracts; about 25 MBEs and a Real Property Essay.

CA Bar Prep - Day 57

Posted on July 17, 2008
Contracts; about 25 MBEs and a Real Property Essay.

CA Bar Prep - Day 56

Posted on July 16, 2008
Got through Real Property and a few (barely 10) MBEs. At one point today, it was getting so boring and tedious that I started reading the material out loud just to keep the pace. That worked out fairly well because I now have a two and a half hour audio of Real Property which will [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 56

Posted on July 16, 2008
Got through Real Property and a few (barely 10) MBEs. At one point today, it was getting so boring and tedious that I started reading the material out loud just to keep the pace. That worked out fairly well because I now have a two and a half hour audio of Real Property which will [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 55

Posted on July 14, 2008
Started with Evidence and spent a few hours on Character Evidence and Impeachment. Over lunch, I went through the answers for the Evidence MBEs that I had missed in v1. Worked on Evidence the rest of the day but wasn’t able to finish it. Will finish it tomorrow morning and pick a slightly easier topic [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 53

Posted on July 13, 2008
Today was the Simulated Bar exam. The one subject I wasn’t able to get through (Trusts) was the first one on the exam. Surprisingly, I think I got through it fairly okay. Felt pretty sick the whole day. Need sleep. Total for the day: 3 Essays and 1 PT under exam conditions...

CA Bar Prep - Day 54

Posted on July 13, 2008
Finished Trusts today — probably need to go over it two more times before it all sinks in. Read through CA Evidence and CA Civ Pro. Then worked on Civ Pro all day. Practiced a few MBEs (~30). Will start with Evidence tomorrow.

CA Bar Prep - Day 52

Posted on July 12, 2008
Stumbled through Community Property and Wills. Still have to go over Trusts, some Evidence rules that wont stick (and all of CA Evidence and Civil Procedure.) About two months ago, I thought that 60 days was a lot of time and that the human brain had the capacity to memorize the phone book in that much [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 51

Posted on July 10, 2008
Remedies [4hrs] Review S/M Final Drill (25 Cards) 30 MBEs @ 67% [Entered into S/M and also fixed up last night’s entered MBEs] Took several [5?] hours to fix PR cards (the outlines supplied by the bar prep program were a bit difficult to navigate)...

CA Bar Prep - Day 50

Posted on July 09, 2008
30 W-MBEs (<70%) @ 60% + 28UW-MBE = 60 @ 75%. (Best: Contracts @ 92. Worst: Property @ 52%). M/O: Corps + CA Corps & K Issue Spot: 5 Essays (Crim #3-4; Con: #5; Corp #5; PR #5) Some S/M but not a lot (maybe 15 Mins) — but did review ~50 MBE Elements earlier in the day...

CA Bar Prep - Day 49

Posted on July 08, 2008
72 MBEs @ 79% (2 x 15 MBEs (S-mode) + 31 x 1 (P-mode)) 50 MBE FCs; 1 Hour of Review FCs. Issue Spot: 3 Evidence, 1 Corps (and another Corps from BarBri/WLS). Went over Corps m/o — a lot better than FCs.

CA Bar Prep - Day 48

Posted on July 07, 2008
Went through Real Property (paper, not S/M) and half of today’s scheduled elements in S/M. Did 62 MBEs @ 79%. 2 Essays (1 re-do). Starting tomorrow, will aim for 50-75 MBEs and 2M:1CA Essays per day.

CA Bar Prep - Day 47

Posted on July 06, 2008
Went through 64 flashcards flagged by S/M. Read through (cant really call it memorization) 68 Evidence flashcards and 16 CA Evidence flashcards. Even after a whole day of work, I can’t seem to keep 801, 803 and 804 straight. I guess doing some MBEs and Essays tomorrow will help...

CA Bar Prep - Day 46

Posted on July 05, 2008
Skipped LECC class. Stayed home to memorize Crim Pro FCs. Did slightly better on MBEs today 60 MBEs @ 80% (CL: 23 @ 87%; K: 13 @ 92%; Crim: 7 @ 43%; T: 17 @ 76%). Issue spotted a Crim and CL essay each.

CA Bar Prep - Day 45

Posted on July 04, 2008
Started with Con Law and went through all the flash cards again. Some of this stuff is finally beginning to stick. Used S/M today to go through all of Con Law, prior (Torts) cards, and Crim Law (couldn’t get to crim pro). 50 MBES @ 72% (CL:33@73%; K:6@50%; T:11@82%) Issue spotted 2 Torts essays.

CA Bar Prep - Day Off (thanks to Con Law)

Posted on July 03, 2008
Tried unsuccessfully through the day to get through all of Con Law. Barely got through it once and then tried to do it a second time but was simply unable to do it. Was so burnt out that I decided it was going to be one of those unintended days off. So, I took care [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 44

Posted on July 02, 2008
Ran through Torts flashcards (in S/M). Spent some time on Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel and then issue spotted 4 Civ Pro essays — did fairly okay. Did 20 Torts MBEs @ 75%. Probably got about 6 to 8 good hours out of the day

CA Bar Prep - Day 43

Posted on July 01, 2008
Picked up materials from class and left. There wasn’t much point in sitting through 3 hours of MBEs when they are the same as I will end up doing on Adaptibar. I figured it was pointless to do them when I am not ready for Evidence and Property (which is about the most tedious for [...

CA Bar Prep - Day 42

Posted on June 30, 2008
Today was the last day of the PT workshop. I might skip the MBE workshop tomorrow because I think my time is better spent learning substantive law and practicing MBEs rather than sitting through review lectures. Did some MBEs (maybe 15-20. I forget how many).

CA Bar Prep - Day 41

Posted on June 29, 2008
Still doing this PT workshop. Its beginning to feel like a waste of time. Not that the content/techniques aren’t helpful — they are! It’s that I am spending too much time away from substantive materials and the panic (and sleep deprivation) make it hard to concentrate...

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