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8. No one can really help you pass the bar examination but yourself.
9. The greatest blooming secret of passing the bar examination is and will always be:
PREPARATION! Not just any kind of preparation, but proper, sound and systematic
preparation.
10. Systematic review can only be done by the use of what we call schedules which the
candidate must follow vigorously to the letter if he expects to attain the best results.
11. There will be times when you become sleepy while reviewing but never for one moment,
tell yourself: Man, this review can wait! Do not be stupid. Always remind yourself that time is
of the essence and is decidedly running too short for you.
12. Force yourself to read, understand and absorb what law you reviewed. Otherwise, all
your efforts will go to waste.
13. Love and review cannot mix in the business of preparing for the bar examination.
14. Early to bed, early to rise, that is the way to make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
15. A morning shower is a must.
16. Never stay up late to the wee hours of morning, cramming law into your head. This
would not do you any good. Remember, you have to conserve as much energy as you
possibly can.
17. Remember, keeping your health in good running condition is just as important as
reviewing and passing the bar examination.
18. Good handwriting is decidedly a great factor in passing the bar examination.
19. To beat time, never write kilometric answers.
20. By far the most important tool that the bar candidate could equip himself with which to
tackle the examination that is inherently personal to him is command of written English.
21. You have to write simple, grammatically correct English if you want to hurdle the
examination.
22. Presentation of answers that are not only good but logical, full of substance and
supported by law and other authorities, are gems to the examiner, whether he has a good or
black heart.
23. Make your motto now: Stick to codal provisions! Compliment this with doctrines laid
down in recent decisions of the Supreme Court.
24. Impressive answers showing the candidates reasoning faculty is what the examiners
want to read in your examination notebooks.
25. Ability to retain your understanding of the substance of the law through efforts of study is
more desirable quality to possess than mere ability to memorize legal provisions.
26. Memorizing a particular provision of law word for word but without understanding it and
its various implications is a lot of wasted effort.
27. Never fail to read the newspapers when you are preparing for the bar examination. Read
newspapers from 20 to 30 minutes every day.
28. You can never expect to pass the bar examination without preparation.
29. Predicting probable questions based on important principles or provisions of law is the
safer method of speculating what the examiners are likely to ask in their examinations.
30. Never depend on tips for your passing. But never brush these tips aside as nothing but
trash. They may likely cause your downfall. Never, however, bank too much on them.
31. Fountain or sign pens are really the most important equipment in bar examination.
Never start for the examination without bringing along with you two or more fountain or sign
pens.
32. Like the weather, examiners are absolutely a bunch of unpredictable fellows, capable of
asking unpredictable questions.
33. Do not try to memorize 50 definitions or distinctions in any given time. Two or three will
do.
34. The real secret in remembering the matters contained in an enumeration is the use of
keywords.
44. Brevity and directness when done properly could make an answer both effective and
impressive. However, when overdone to a point where the ideas sought to be conveyed
becomes vague and difficult to understand, they become a liability.
45. Never forget that every candidate is a potential bar topnotcher.
46. So, if you are a candidate just preparing for the bar examination, whose chances of
passing are quite problematical, just limit your ambition for the present to just working hard
to obtain a 75 percent in the great battle of your life.
47. Take comfort in this: That even those who become lawyers by just luck, are making
good in the practice of law. Nothing can really put a determined man down.
48. In your preparation for the greatest battle of your life, call upon Him who is the source of
all knowledge, wisdom and understanding. In deep humility, bended knees and tears, He
will make all things beautiful in His time. Victory belongs to the most persevering!
Note:
All excerpts, except the last (No. 48), were taken by Atty. GLENN M. MORTEL from the
book SECRETS ON HOW TO PASS THE BAR EXAMINATION by Dean Wenceslao G.
Laureta, 1990 edition.