Monday, June 9, 2025

Memorizing

Someone on Reddit, while feeling overwhelmed with all of the law required to memorize for the bar exam, asked how to go about doing that.

You really want to get to the point where if a client came into the office and had a question for you (imagine it's one of the multiple questions at the end of an MEE fact pattern), the client would leave the office satisfied that his/her question was adequately addressed.

This is an important distinction from memorization. You don't need to write that an offer is a manifestation of intent to enter into yadda yadda. You just have to be able to address the law in a way that makes sense to you, so that you can use that law to then analyze whatever question was asked.

Try to understand the law in a way that doesn't require you to necessarily pull it from your memory. Take the time to understand it until you feel you'd be able to explain it to someone who understands it less than you do.

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