Day 17 - Captivity!

Just returned from the cinema where I caught Captivity. Fairly shite film but could really draw comparisons and see the parallels to my own life at the moment - kept in a room, tortured by revision and stress... ok she wasn't being tortured by revision but you get my point!

What seems absolutely crazy to me is how tomorrow is JULY - i KNOW it's only the one day closer to the exam but it seems a month closer - now I can no longer say 'next month' because it is quite definitely going to be 'this month.' On the positive side - I guess we are now into the final stretch - time to pull out all the stops and head for the finish line post haste!

(On that note - I reaaally didn't get too much done today - managed Trusts lectures but that was it - from tomorrow gonna get back down to it!)

Day 16 - 17 Concepts of Wills!

Dammit - why didn't I do this tomorrow or start working one day earlier so today culd have been day 17! lol. Listened to the Wills lectures - seems alright - whenever he mentioned an area that was majorly tested he then went on to say that it was actually quite simple (and it was, fairly) so that's always a good sign!

Really starting to just want to finish the substantive law so I can get onto learning those 'boiler plate' thingys, reviewing everything, doing essays and just feeling like I've covered everything at least ONCE!

Day 15 - MPT day!

Ok so got up and tried to get on with this MPT that they say you should do after MPT workshop 1. SOO hard to get into it - always seems so boring as much as I tell myself that it is NOT waste of time and it IS VERY relevant. Gave up after spending about 90 mins ish on outlining and moved on to listen to MPT workshop 2 - apparently if I would have written it I would have got around 65% cus I outlined it right but most of the stuff I was going to write was probably shite. Am going to FORCE myself to just sit and do the whole thing as soon as I can but at this stage where kinda freaking that have forgotten some of the early stuff I looked at - focus lies slightly elsewhere. Listening to second MPT workshop now anyway - seems interesting! The outlining thing helped anyway cus i realised that you DO need the whole time to do the outlining and need to work slightly faster...

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Edit - later (around 11pm) decided to tackle that 2nd MPT - the re Sunrise Galleria Mall one. Took the full 3 hours and feeling better about it now. Pretty certain i probably did it wrong though cus that whole 'drafting a policy' thing screwed with my mind - on the one hand you are kinda thinking - I need to be like tha sheep! lol and on the other you are thinking - but there's nothing else in the facts that I can use to just MAKE some stupid ordinance! Whatever - onto real law stuff again tomorrow - starting Wills :oS

Day 14 - MBE Practice Exam

Did AM session 9am - 12pm, then watched House and had something to eat before doing the PM session 1.30pm - 4pm (kinda finished early on that 2nd session - had finished and was bored!).

Have remembered the way I sorted out the time on MBE exam for NY that worked really well - basically making sure you do 25 q's in 45 minutes. Splits the exam into 4 manageable chunks, means you have more idea of how you are doing for time and means, if you are reasonably quick, you can either have quick 2-3 minute break every 45 minutes or save it up and use it all at the end! I remember that I told a coupla people i did the NY one with about it and they said they used it and found it worked really well.

Exam wise - my mark is slightly inflated I think because i did pretty much the same MBE practice exam last year before NY bar exam - however I really don't remember the questions conciously and now and then when I vaguely recall something it seems annoying because I don't know whether I am remembering the answer I gave before or the right answer or even a wrong answer that I read about after doing the exam! Whatever... apparently the actual MBE will be easier so I guess that's a good sign... just checked and got 136 last time

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MBE Practice Exam - (140/200)

Day 13 - Catching Up

As didn't do a huge amount on monday - today was catch up day! Managed to do quite a bit actually - listened to essay workshop 1 (well most of it - got bored and skipped through a lot of it), then did a load of MCQ's and 3 essays followed by brief review of MBE subjects. Starting to feel like I've forgotten stuff i did at FIRST
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MCQ's done - Tort Int 38-74 (21/37)
Tort Adv 1-35 - (20/35)
Real Property Adv 1-35 (19/35)

Day 12 - last day of 'work'

After studying till late last night - REALLY didnt want to goto work this morning on what is apparently the wettest day of the year here in England (and I heard somewhere - wettest day in 50 years?!?) Just can't get inspired on getting back from work really but doing tort mcq's now so can reduce the strain of workload tomorrow. Got my practice MBE day after tomorrow too!

LOL - love the effort that seems to go into the fact patterns on some of these MCQs (yes - i know I am sad to like the fact patterns! lol). Prime Example: "Cisneros raised his middle finger in the timeworn salute of the impotently angry and shouted a few well-chosen references to LeBeau's anatomy and ancestry." (Tort MCQ Q16 Int). Gotta love it! :)
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MCQ's done - Torts Int 1-37 (25/37)

Day 11 - One Month Left

Wow - it has rolled around fast - this time next month will be doing Day 1 of exam! Crazy stuff! Went to meet mate today for lunch, nice shortish break - I HAD scheduled for it in advance. Got home and did some remedies lectures - seemed quite useful - i like the fact that, in a way, it's a review of Contract/tort/Real property as opposed to an entirely new subject. When it comes to injunctions/equitable remedies though I prefer my neumonic:
- Equitable remedies are BERPed into existence (Balance of hardships, Enforceable, no Remedy at law, Protectible property interest).
- (this one is COOLER) - equitable remedies are killed by the FLU! (Freedom of speech, Laches, Unclean Hands).

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MCQ's done - Contracts Adv 1-36 (23/36)