Well, it's 10 days into Bar/Bri. The strains of working while taking a comprehensive bar review course are about what I expected. At this point I'm making flashcards like crazy and keeping some pretty strange hours.

Last time I checked in, I was trying to follow the course exactly as instructed.

That went on for about two days. On the advice of friends who took and passed the Illinois bar, it occurred to me that any return brought about by reading the extensive outlines of an entire subject before lectures is probably outweighed by the large chunk of time it takes to wade through such an outline.

It was nice to hear that from people who have passed the bar because reading the extensive outlines before lectures is nearly impossible for someone who is working full-time. I definitely don't want lecture preparation time to cut into the practice or reviewing that definitely needs to be done.

A lot of studying for the bar while working full-time is about being efficient with time, so I basically cut the large outlines out of the plan. Most of my time is spent condensing the short outlines and lecture notes into flashcards right after the lecture, and then doing the assigned practice problems and essays. Hopefully this works!

Here are a couple of links about the day before and the day of the LSAT here and here.

For more links, below is our original post about the day before the LSAT:

This weekend is an LSAT weekend! Hopefully you're well prepared for and not too stressed out over the exam.

Compelling Interests blog (from the people behind LexPrep Law School Preparation Course) gives some last minute advice.

Here you can find some good advice for the day before and the day of the test.

Here is some more advice for the day of the test.

Good luck!

Click below to see our links to advice posted last year about Thanksgiving break during law school.

Orientation has started or is about to start for many of you new law students out there.

To those who are just starting out, welcome to the world of law school! Here's are some past blog entries that you should take a look at as a new 1L...

• About and some advice on the Socratic Method.
• About the mandatory grading curve you will likely encounter in law school (with an update here).
• Use CALI Lessons to help master law school.

MORE BELOW...

With law school classes drawing closer, if you have not bought your casebooks yet you really should think about buying your casebooks used from online resources.

Here's a link to one of the Pre-law Blog's articles on the subject with more details: Cost of Casebooks in Law School.

Readers actually send the pre-law blog this question a lot, which backs up the theory that the pre-law blog's readership mainly consists of criminals.

Here's the latest:

• I have had an interest in going to Law School and have been encouraged by my professors to do so. However, I have a criminal record. Last March(2007) I was arrested and plead guilty to posession of Marijuana with intent to distribute and in April of 2003 I was arrested for a DUI. Will this absolutely bar me from going to Law School?

The pre-law blog has touched on this subject before: "RQ: Getting into Law School (and Accepted to the Bar) with a Criminal Record". So instead of writing a new post, we just updated that one a bit. Please follow that link and take a look.

A year ago, the Pre-Law Blog Posted about What to Wear at Law School.

I think it is a timely post with everyone getting ready for orientation and probably having no idea what to wear.