Bar Exam Tips & Secrets

by Ralph A. Sarmiento

To Memorize or Not, That is the Question

Attempting to memorize all the law available will make the exam frustrating and difficult. Besides, you won’t have the time to actively and consciously memorize everything. Moreover, it is not really necessary for you to cite legal provisions, excerpts from cases or their titles verbatimly. In fact, restating a legal provision of concept in your own words will have more impact on the examiner because it exhibits profound understanding of legal provisions and concepts. But I am not saying that you should not memorize anything. As discussed above, you should limit memorization only to those provisions which you have classified as Class “A”. As to the others, you will be surprised that you may somehow remember them, even verbatimly to some extent, by simply studying and trying to understand them. Oftentimes, it is also through repetition, that is, by reading, reviewing, and re-reviewing that you will subconsciously commit legal provisions concepts to memory.

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