Tips on how you can read 8 or more hours a day

Why?

-reading this long is not normal

-you will be drastically altering your life, habit, attitude, even health. You will be suffering a lot. Make no
mistake, preparing for the bar is a life changing experience. You will shed tears a lot.

1. Be realistic, be reasonable.
- Accept realities.
- The chance of passing is very slim.
- All the odds are against you.
a. Poor foundation.
b. Low passing rate. (National and school)
c. Extraneous factors
- But, use all this to motivate yourself to read more. At this point, you have to be irate. “I am
irate. I am foaming at the mouth. I’m homicidal. I’m suicidal. I’m humiliated, debased,
degraded. And not only that, I feel like throwing up to be living my middle years in a country
of this nature. I am nauseated. I spit in the face of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban and his
cohorts in the Supreme Court.” Channel your madness to accomplish the task.

2. Read not to fail, not to pass or top.

- Bar exam can be both a reward and a punishment, a price and a torture device.
- Do not study to top, you will not, that is reality, that is probability. You will just barely pass
it.
- So kapag tinatamad ka na, isipin mo yung isang page na hindi binasa yun ang magiging
reason kaya babagsak ka, kaya basahin mo na.
- Yung isang oras na hindi mo ginamit sa pag-aaral, dahil pagod ka na, yung ang magiging
reason kaya ka babagsak. Lagi mo iisipin na nasa 74.99 ka pa lang, 0.01 na lang papasa ka na,
kaya bumangon ka, magbasa ka.
3. Pay the price.
- We all want to pass, only few are willing to pay the price.
- Be desperate. Treat this like it is your only and last chance.
4. Do not worry about the things you cannot control.
- Schedule of the exam
- I hate it when someone say “sana nasa good mood yung examiner when his checking my
paper” during the pre-bar.
- Stop wasting your time with “what ifs”.

My Insights about the Exam after taking it.

1. You cannot fake it. Lalabas at lalabas kung ano ka, ano ang kakayahan mo, hanggang saan lang
ang preparation mo. So you have to cure all your deficiencies now because if your plan is to do it
during the bar, you can’t. If you think you have a grammar issue, resolve it now until luminis na.
Wag mo sabihin na doon mo na sa bar aayusin ang grammar mo. Gagandahan mo ang sulat mo
 sa bar, ngayon hindi, wag na. Kung inaantok ka tuwing 2 pm after eating, resolve it now. Kung
hindi, aantokin ka sa bar.
2. 4 hours is not enough for one bar subject so many things will become, and should be, automatic.