Spread the Word

Mr. PMBR Contracts has a great idea. For any question that looks impossibly hard (i.e. any future interest question or this particularly long contracts question we're looking at right now), just guess A and move on. Why 'A' you say? Because if we all pick A then maybe the bar graders will say 'Hmm.. everybody got A, maybe A really is right...' Not sure if it's ever worked before, but it's worth a try. So spread the word. Just pick A.

Great Success.

Borat is not the only one who makes great success. After a pitiful 40% on the PMBR Torts 50 questions test this morning, I reviewed all the explanations, listened to the lecture and then did another 50 PMBR questions at the library... this time I got 72% improvement. Awesome. Now on to Contracts.

Duh

If one more bar review book or lecturer reminds me not to misnumber my answer sheet on the MBE I will kill them- or at least their visual image. Seriously, Mr. PMBR Torts has been rambling on about it for at least 4 minutes now. That 4 minutes just cost me $1.30 ($890/9 days of instruction/5 hours per day). He's not as good as Mr. PMBR Con Law because I feel like he's just going over the questions and the magical "approach" and not actually giving us a big picture of torts. Oh well, back to paying attention.

Easy?

I'm in Day 2 of PMBR- Torts and the lecturer just said "Torts is the easiest subject tested on the bar." Hmm... that's what the Con Law guy said yesterday... By the way, I only got 40% right this morning so I'd better pay attention.

One day down.... a lot to go...

So day 1 of bar prep is officially in the history books. It actually feels good to get started. Today was Con Law day in the PMBR 'early bird' course. I got a little more than half right on the 50 question set that started the morning. I liked the lecture format, how it interspersed the question with a comprehensive outline of the subject. I went to the library after class to do more practice questions and see if I had learned anything. I did 25 con law questions from Adachi's "MBE Survival Kit" and got less than half right. Pitiful. Then I did 10 questions from one of the PMBR workbooks, and got 9 of them right. Hmm... Whatever- at this point I am studying the questions, not practicing them, right Mr. Talamo? And now for my favorite quote of the day: "Rational basis plaintiffs are losers." That's all folks- off to bed. Tomorrow is torts day.

Here goes nothing...

PMBR starts today. Crazy. Here goes nothing...

Back from the Living...

I know I haven't updated in a while, but that's because I've been trying to cram in every bit of living I could between the end of my externship and the start of PMBR on Monday. Can you believe it's one week from today?

In the time since I've posted last, I have almost finished the PMBR cds (only 2 torts cds to go), have read through a bit of the Conviser Mini Review (and by the way, isn't it cruel to call a 5 lb. book a 'mini-review'), and have spent more money on bar prep materials I probably won't have time to use. It's an addiction really- I would seek help, except for the fact that I think I've bought all the bar prep materials out there, so the temptation is gone : )

So on the agenda for this week: checking out the library that I will chain myself inside of this summer, finishing the PMBR CDs, continuing to read the Conviser and attempting to learn Community Property and Wills/Trusts to a decent level so that I'm not blown away when BarBri starts. Oh yeah, and I'd still like to do a little living in the mean time.