Rinse and repeat

I feel like I've settled into the studying every day thing. Astonishingly, while it is hard for me to sit down and study, it's not the fight I thought it would be every day. I've mentioned before that I am NOT a big studier. I'm not good at it; I can't focus for long stretches of time; I don't know what to do with myself; and worst of all I tend to put it all off till the last possible minute. There were tests in law school that I didn't start studying for until less than 24 hours before hand. Many tests.

I'm aware that I can't pull that kind of nonsense with the Bar, it's too hard and too important, and I don't have that same confidence about it that I did with the law school finals. Perhaps that's what keeps me slogging away. The hardest thing for me right now is the fact that I know I have 10 more weeks of this ahead. I'll finish up a study session and pat myself on the back for getting through it, and then I remember that I have to do it all again tomorrow. It kind of sucks the spirit out of you, so I try not to think about it.

Today is my last day of torts: torts took less time than contracts, and I'm going to put in an essay today, which I am unaccountably nervous about. I guess I feel that it's more of a test of my review and memory than the MBE questions, and I'm nervous about possibly proving to myself that I can't remember a darn thing. One thing I forgot to account for in my reckoning is the relative amount of material in the subjects; for example, I budgeted the same number of days for contracts and torts, forgetting that contracts took 6 credits worth of classes to teach, and torts took 4. Duh! With that in mind, and remembering how hard civ pro was, I think I'm going to alter my schedule to extend the time for that. (Civ pro review starts tomorrow!)

I've been scoring between 9 and 11 right out of 17 on my daily MBE practice; 11 today on a set of "advanced drills" today. Which makes me happy, but I'll count on it more once I start doing mixed-subject drills. I just feel that for now, till I get more review under my belt, it's more beneficial to use the MBE both as practice and evaluation on the subjects I've already reviewed. What I should start doing is mixing problems from the subjects I've already done...Although that still leaves little mystery. The thing I'm worried that I'm not seeing is the actual difficulty and the time eaten up by having to determine what subject a question is in, and shifting gears quickly from one to another. But there's time to get there.

For now, I'm going to go do this torts essay. Wish me luck.