Keeping my head above water

I can't believe it's already 4 weeks into Bar prep. We have gone through all the Multi-state subjects in BarBri. Fortunately, we get a 2 day break in between our last MBE subject and our first California essay subject lecture. Of course, the "break" only means no lectures; I'm still studying about 6 hours a day.

Although I haven't done every single assignment on my study schedule, I finally feel like I am caught up. When I first started studying, I felt like there was not way I could possibly memorize the rules for this many subjects all at once. Now, after 3 weeks of studying, I've actually comitted a lot of the rules to memory (and I'm doing a pretty good job of guessing or making up a rule when there is something I don't know).

Yesterday, I got back the first essay assignment that we had to hand it. It was a Torts question about defamation and invasion of privacy. I was amazed to see that I got a "pass" score because I hadn't actually remembered the elements of all of the privacy torts. The fake it till you make it strategy that we learned in our essay workshop apparently works, because of all the comments I received, there was no mention of my incorrect rule statements. Apparently, the most important part of the exam taking strategy is clear headings. (I think it also helped that I discussed what I did know first so the incorrect law was buried towards the end of my answer).