I experiment with many methods.
The next time I take an exam, I want to create cram notes based on the stuff I learned but gets blurred….like comparisons between partnerships and corporations and individual taxation. This will help ensure that I get the questions I do know right 100 percent…
I have thought about taking extensive notes on other mcs….but I don't find the time to ever re-write or condense them….it would take me hours just to do one lesson, to think deeply about what I need to learn….these exams seem to be heavily curved so no one may have the time to really do this except for Joe….since he has ninja notes….I would probably either get those or make my own similar cram notes. I would get those now except I have no money….and I would blog for him except I don't want my face on the internet and the way I write is not politically correct. So I wouldn't want to mar this site…with my spiritualist intellectualism and intellectual raunchy humor granted only the later would mar the site.
As far as taking notes during multiple choice questions….I recently went over contracts and did each one like this….creating a folding space in my memory…
contracts – statute of frauds – test subject
contracts – common law – statute of fraud – vs. ucc..
etc. etc…
this way, I begin to see the seperate paths each question takes from the general, creating a birds eye view in my mind….I wish I would have started studying a month earlier though, because three months wasn't enough for me….I did procrastinate the first month too….woe is me, I learned my lesson a third time in a row….
If I could do it all from the begining, I would use this way of answering questions….identify general theme, more specific theme, and then most specific, and then once you get to the exact specification, you could further unfold into specific items like this…
contracts – sale of goods – statute of frauds – mylegs – marriage, more than one year, land, estates…..
or just write down the one word that you didn't know, or this or that…
I did this yesterday, and I cam back to the questions today and I subconsciously
knew why each answer was either right or wrong….
I did also go about answering the questions without writing at all….like when I was doing 100 multiple choice questions a day…but now I wish I took more time and did the narrowing in process…
what this is also does is, by the end of it all, you could by memory right in order or list all the major topics….this isn't necessary to pass, but it helps to narrow in precisely what you don't know…because a lot of this, like someone else said is interrelated.
P.s. if I get this job in a few months a temp called me about two days ago, I'll probably by the ninja notes….
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