Bar Exam Tips & Secrets

by Ralph A. Sarmiento

Stick to Codal Provisions

Never take codal provisions for granted. Bar Materials should always be studied in this order: (a) Codal Provisions; (b) Commentaries; and (c) Cases. These are the three C’s in the study of law.

Codal provisions contain the text of the law per se. If you have only read the commentaries or the cases, but not the codes, how can you then write “the Law provides that…” with confidence? You don’t know the law or what it provides if you have not read the code. I am therefore surprised to meet many Bar Examinees who got the courage to take the Bar Exam without having read the text of the Constitution, the Labor Code, Civil Code, the Family Code, the Revised Penal Code, and the relevant provisions of the Code of Commerce, the Tax Code, Tariff and Customs Code, Court of Tax Appeals Act, and other key provisions. Well, you may fool some Bar Examiners some of the time, but you cannot fool all Bar Examiners all the time. Worse, you may just be simply fooling yourselves.

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