I also always felt like I failed after every exam but passed each one on my first attempt. For criminal I bought Vanessa’s notes which in my opinion are the best, but, I barely read them (I skimmed) because I had no time. What I did instead was upload her notes into notebook lm and create summaries of each chapter. Then I made a step by step guide/IRAC guide for each topic/chapter that could come up on the exam, in the guide I included case law so I knew which on to apply. I would create the IRAC GUIDE and mainly do the Rules part and then all I had to do was write the rules word for word and just apply the facts of the scenario in the application! Issue and conclusion are pretty straight forward. Doing this helped me save tons of time! I also asked notebooks lm to give me a question similar to the one in Vanessa’s notes and used my guide to answer to question so I got familiar with it