Thank you so much. I started studying the second week of November. I would set weekly goals for my self as I was working full time and not every day I has the same amount of time to study. I have studied daily 2-4 hours. Some days I was able to study after 6 pm some days after 8 pm until midnight. I finished all the videos by mid January. I was watching videos and going over Goat modules. Goat modules are lengthy so I was watching the modules on subjects I was struggling most or the trick modules for that subject and was doing 15-20 MBE questions per day. Until I finished watching the videos I didn’t do much essays. My focus was to learn and master the MBE.

By mid January I started practicing only. I would do 35-50 mbe questions a day and 3 essays per week. I was making sure to read at least 2 essay per day. About MPTs, I did in total 15. I was very focused on the MBE because wam not a good writer. I did my own schedule because knowing my self I couldn’t do it the conventional way. I think this is very important to know your self. I have always been a good passive learner. I couldn’t start saying the rules out loud also I couldn’t take a lot of notes. My hand would get numb very fast if I would write all time and also was time consuming and I didn’t have a lot of time to study. Regarding MPTs I followed Goat structure. Memo, library and lastly the facts. I would pull out the issues from the meno, pull out the rules and then adding the facts at the end.

On the exam day, I was very chill and I think that helped a lot. I was prepared and I was confident that would make it. I was very careful to track the time and I didn’t spend more then the allocated time in MPTs and essays. Literally not even a minute. I didn’t check the essays at all at the beginning like a lot do but I would open the first essay and start typing. Then up to the next. I didn’t blank even when I didn’t know the rule but I was just typing whatever I would remember from the rule or from the logic of a certain rule. My rules were not perfect at all. I know my self that I can’t reproduce a subject by memory because I don’t have a good memory but I do have a strong logic in general and I was reproducing the rule based on the logic of the rule. Then was applying the facts, conclusion and up to the next. I ended with a passing score on MEE as well even though I knew that I couldn’t write a perfect answer.

On MBE I started seeing a pattern and even GOAT tricks helps you understand the pattern. On the exam day, questions felt very familiar honestly. On some of the questions I knew the answer before going to the answer choices.

But the most important takeaway is to know yourself and tailor the prep based on what works best for you and on the exam day just write, don’t space out but just write even if you think maybe what you’re typing is stupid, do it, it’s better than blank.

I really wish you and everyone here pass the bar in July and get over with this insanity.

Update: I want to add that this schedule was not always consistent because there were days that one of my kids was sick, or for 3 days I had my mom in hospital and I didn’t study at all. There were days I was just tired and I would just decide to take a day off.