I just got Jeff Adachi's flash cards, but someone told me that Bar in a Flash cards are the best ones. So Could anybody help me to decide which one are the best one to study? I am taking July 2009 CA Bar Exam and I do not know if I have made the right decision buying this ones...

I have the bar in a flash for evidence, and they are fabulous. I have heard the Adachi ones are good but have errors and are not as good as these ones (althought the barbreaker book is great).

If its not too late, get the bar in a flash.

bar in a flash is the way to go.. they're excellent.

The flash cards that you make yourself are the best ones to study.

Good Luck.

TITCR

Posted By on 24 Jun 2009 06:53 PM
The flash cards that you make yourself are the best ones to study.

Good Luck.

I 100% agree with this. Unless you are ambitious and make them each night after barbri, you will have about two weeks to make and memorize. The last two weeks is really where you remember everything anyway. After classes ended it seemed as though I had a mind dump of the previous month and a half, but doing this reinforced it all. MAKE THEM YOURSELF!

write margin notes in the conviser to every paragraph. saves time, money, and you won't lose them. review each subject you've covered every night. it's must easier than fiddling w/ flashcards or paying hundreds of dollars for premade ones that aren't as thorough

Great idea!

Thanks.

Just another recommendation about making your own flash cards.  I started making them from the MBE questions I got wrong and went from there.  You gotta learn how to put the law/rule in your own words because it is easier to remember it/them @ crunch time.  Plus you get the practice of writing it all down.

Good luck.

I agree with Max; making them yourself helps, especially based on rules and questions that you're getting wrong in practice tests. My husband simply holds one up and I explain to him what's on the back. It really helps me because he's not a law student, so I have someone else to explain it to, which helps me remember it even better. Shuffling subjects together helps to keep your brain active and not predict what will come next (but make sure you label your criminal and tort similiarities such as battery accordingly! xD)

Mizzy, you sound like my wife and I. She thinks she has a law degree too after all of the note cards.

I did not waste my time making notecards for MBE, but to each his/her own. THe questions and lectures were enough. For me that would have been WAY too much to commit to memory. I just crammed the Essay rules into my brain and did alot of MBE practice quesitons.

Although there were more MBE topic essays than I thought there would be. 2 multi-state essays were from MBE topics, so I had to BS through them without being able to write down the exact rule of law from memory.

If you've used flashcards before in lawschool and think they are for you, another route to go is to enroll in www.flashcardexchange.com (no this is not spam). Instead of outlining, I made up flashcards every night after class with Excel, using semicolons to delineate the cells, then uploaded them when I was ready to study them online. This eliminated the need to have to fumble with cards. I also organized my cards by topic, so I could do a keyword search when I just wanted to "pull up" cards for a given subtopic in a subject.

Basic enrollment is free. THe site will also categorize them for you, so you can study only the ones that you are getting wrong consistently instead of wasting time on the ones you already know cold. If you run into time trouble and can't make any for a subject, you can use someone else's cards, because users have the option to make theirs public (which I did). I did this for torts, after comparing the cards that I found with my own notes.

One caveat to July '09 takers: If flashcards aren't your thing, I wouldn't recommend diving into this system at this late juncture. I used flashcards on and off throughout law school, and they worked for me. IMHO at this point stick to what you're comfortable with.

Good luck.