I keep reading these posts and everyone keeps talking about the sheer amount of information and how ridiculously hard it is to remember everything.
I think I've been studying too long, because I've reached the point where I agree with everyone on the first part – it is an absolutely asinine amount of information – but rather than “remembering all of this is going to be hard,” I'm slowly slipping into, “There's no way I'm going to remember most of this, so… I'm not even going to bother to try.”
Rather, I'm just going through the Becker lectures haphazardly and then basically “learning” by doing the problems. It is literally impossible to memorize very little detail, and feels like a waste of time anyway. I've started just focusing on the core concepts, and as for the other stuff – if it sticks, it sticks, and if not – well I've got a 1 in 4 chance of getting it right!
(Because lets be honest – even if by some act of god you manage to remember the 10 exceptions or rules that you need to know to answer some asinine question you get, odds are its going to be presented in some ass-backwards manner such that you can't figure it out anyway!!)
BEC - 89 (5/31/2012)
AUD - 88 (7/02/2012)
REG - 76 (7/31/2012)
FAR - 83 (8/30/2012)
"Amateurs practice until they can get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong."
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