How to Answer Bar Questions?

Outline of sharing…

This is a very good question.

To whom?
Why ask this question?
In a battle, to be successful, we have to know the enemy.
What are the questions asked?
Briefly, the subjects in the Bar are…
Remedial Law…

We have to know the enemy.

So what is the enemy? Every year, the Chair of the Committee releases the Bar
Syllabus (get the facts).

This year, the chairman is Justice Leonen.

In 2018 Bar, it was the first time they adopted the two-examiner per subjects.

How many are the subjects?

If it is Multiple Choice, then select the best answer.

How to Answer the essay-type Bar Question?

Make a Disclaimer, that you will only cover essay question.

What is the Bar exam?

Syllabus… where to check (sample)

The bar exams is a nerve-wracking experience that you will experience in your
life.

Breathe. Deeply.

Sample Bar exam. Get how many hours each exam.

When already pressed for time during the review, go codal. And leave no
question unanswered in the essay portion.

Don’t take any of the questions for granted. Every point counts. The different
between passing and failing the exam is .01 percent.
In answering the exam, always remember to keep it short and simple. K.I.S.S

Marnie Tonson, author of “Bar Blues: Everything You wanted to Know About
the Bar Exams But Are Too Busy To Ask” with Romel Bagares, Tanya Lat,
Grace Gamez and Malen Manait

1. Get sleep the night before. Force yourself to sleep. You need to be alert
when reading and answering Bar questions. If it seems you can’t get to
sleep, then try this trick: For dinner, eat an extra large meal fit for two or
three people – you will get sleepy after that.
2. Eat a heavy breakfast full of protein for alertness but low on carbs; eat a
sparse lunch, of just one large banana for stamina and dark chocolate with
almonds for alertness; and have an early dinner right after the afternoon
Bar exams because you’ll be very hungry by then.

A lot of it is recalling stock knowledge of basic principles which ought to have

been learned in law school and which cannot be learned in five months of
review. If you can’t remember it the day before, you won’t be able to remember
it on Sunday, so don’t bother; try instead to cite a constitutional provision or
principle or a codal provision to support your answer. You can never go wrong
with that.

But the blooming secret in this regard is simply this: Present good answers that
will make the examiner take notice. Good answers anchored upon logical
reasoning, written in readable English and more importantly, justified by
appropriate legal authority. – Secrets on How to Pass the Bar Examination (Rex
Book Store, 1959 ed.) by Dean Wenceslao G. Laureta

It is not enough that you have read, study… you must

I wasn’t good in answering… then.

Do not make the tragic mistake of assuming that you know all these things, by
just reading. You must supplement reading by ACTUAL practice in answer
framing.
After all, one may know all the techniques on swimming which he can master
from books on the subject, but until you jump into the water, you will never
learn to swim. – USE THIS AS THE END>
How do you frame your answer?

You must practice how “answer framing.”

The high mortality rate in the bar examination is traceable to the sole or over-
reliance on passive study and the absence or lack of training and practice on bar
strategies and tactics.

Thus, it may be proper to remind the bar candidates some of the myths involved
in the domain of bar examinations. Almost invariably the bar candidates have
the mistaken belief that by.. (1) attending the best law schools, (2) listening to
lectures of renowned bar reviewers during review classes, and (3) memorizing
the law or the rules of procedure, including doctrinal rulings will guarantee his
pasing the bar examinations. WRONG.

There is no question that the above circumstances will help to enable the bar
candidate pass the bar examinations.
A good friend, Rasmia Sucor. (She is bad in recitation)

Some are gifted with organized thoughts. Some are not? So what do you do?
Practice. How?

The answer to the bar question. Answer it yourself.

The Supreme Court itself recognized the salient role played

Recommend these books – on how to prepare before the Bar Exam

1. Bar Blues (Central Books 2013) written by Tanya Karina Lat, Maria Cracia
Gomez and Marilyn Manait – good book on bar exam preparation.
Comprehensive yet readable

2. Slaying the Bar Exam Dragon Dean Rufus Rodriguez

3. Secrets on How to Pass the Bar Examination (Laureta)