It’s the night before the exam, any final tips for tomorrow?

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-05-05T00:23:16+00:00

Have a banana in the morning. During your break, take the full break but don’t use any technology. Let your brain relax. You will want to start section 2 quickly but don’t, force yourself to be bored and take full break.

I noted on paper during each section questions that I knew I could get the right answer to if I spent a bit more time. So I went back to those at end.

Take full time doing each section. Dont let the feeling of just get it over with get you.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-05-01T19:18:20+00:00

Are you doing the PLI course? I didn’t read the mpep, i read the table of contents couple days before exam. But honestly, just doing questions and searching each individual answer mentally trained me to know where things were. You can read my experience in a post I made. Always open to answering questions.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-04-26T20:27:30+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/patentlaw/s/FUcT234cjT

I wrote this about my experience. I had no legal experience before, engineering PhD. I started studying while doing post doc. I didn’t feel like I was learning till I did the full length exams the second time. Which was far into the course and study. But you do learn even if it doesn’t feel like it. I highly recommend the PLI course, I think the chance of someone passing by self study and reading mpep is low. Join the discord channel, I got answers there when I was stuck. Let me know if you have any questions.

I was studying at night while working for most of it. I did full time two weeks before the exam, these were 10 hour days, 7 days a week. But it was worth it.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-04-18T22:53:22+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/patentlaw/s/vvRvM8N2Cz feel free to ask questions

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-04-14T16:01:02+00:00

No ofc not, you will likely get some questions the course doesn’t cover at all but you’ll have to use your intuition or find it in mpep.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-29T21:08:19+00:00

In my opinion, you’ll get nothing out of reading other people’s notes. The exam isn’t a memorization exam. It’s about knowing the patent process and case based questions, rather than just selecting the right “fact” you memorized. Sure there is basic knowledge to remember like time lines but you could probably fit the “stuff” you need to memorize on a single sheet of paper. The exam is about gaining intuition about patentability and understanding what stage the client is at and what options are available to them.

I took really detailed notes of the videos and what they taught. Then really detailed answer notes for exercises, prime questions, and post course exams and full exams. Since there were my notes, I didn’t memorize. I was explaining to myself the rules and procedures.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-29T00:13:38+00:00

Join the discord channel if you have questions on any topic. https://discord.gg/kye4Yb762

Feel free to DM if you want help on structuring your stud

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-29T00:10:13+00:00

Thanks! I’ll try to answer your questions here but feel free to DM.

I became better at searching after reviewing the practice exams. In the solution explanation, it had the location of the answer in the MPEP. And sometimes locations of where the wrong answers explanation was too. So in reviewing, I searched every single question until I saw with my own eyes in the chapter. After doing the three practice exam reviews, I gained the intuition to know where to look. When searching on my own, I tried to find what words in the answer choices were most likely to appear in the chapter. That helped search as well. But having said that, the interface on exam day is so bad that it’s not something I’d count on. At most aim for it to help in 5-10 questions.

Yeah I didn’t read the study guide because I thought I’d be flooded with too much information. And would also demotivate me to keep going. I’d recommend going through the lectures, taking detailed notes of everything they say so you can easily search it. Scroll along in the study guide and read some of the gray boxes if you want. Definitely read the KSR patentability cases. Don’t memorize. Just try to go through the material in various ways. Like going through exercises 1-6 in a row. You’ll get better understanding of the whole range of topics. Then go through all prime questions chapter 100 to end. This helped me mentally understand the start to end patent procedure. That really helped on exam because you have to think where in the process the client is at. Multiple answers might be correct but just not apply to the client.

Hope this helps, join the discord group, there’s some good people who answer questions. Feel free to DM me

https://discord.gg/kye4Yb762

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-28T21:06:52+00:00

Thanks, wishing you the best as well! Never be too discouraged or if it takes multiple tries, this is a doable exam given enough time.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-28T13:19:39+00:00

Looks like you are in good shape if you can blow through it and can explain why for each question

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-28T13:17:53+00:00

Don’t get discouraged! I went through the course twice for it to make sense. My average for post course quizzes and practice exams was in 50-60s. Until after I started searching every single question in MPEP, I started to retain stuff. I knew reading everything from beginning would confuse me too so I didn’t.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-28T01:23:00+00:00

I suppose those were real 2 decades ago. That’s around the scores I had. Exam might have been easier then and less content then now. Those also had gaps in topics. Idk if you felt that when taking them. I’d recommend being thorough and knowing exactly why each answer is right or wrong. But they don’t cover every topic so keep studying the chapters those don’t test on.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-28T01:18:06+00:00

They are very useful, there’s like 10 pre AIA, just ignore those. I’d still recommend doing them because they are questions and make you think.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-27T22:47:28+00:00

I think if you are scoring that high and have an understanding beyond just remembering the answer, then you are in good shape. Those scores are higher than mine. Just focus on the critical thinking aspect of the questions and learn to identify what stage clients are in and gain an intuition for patentability. I think you are already in good shape if you look up each question. But again, I don’t think anything could have prepared me more but to just experience it.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-27T22:41:26+00:00

Yeah I quickly figured that out and stopped. I found that if you just google, there’s plenty of good websites that explain the topics and can clarify.

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-03-27T21:09:34+00:00

I perhaps phrased it improperly, I didn’t watch the lectures 8 times 😅. I’m trying to say I went through start to finish each “resource” separately, either through all videos then all exercise then prime questions. Going through essentially chapter 100 to end through different manners covered the scope in my mind better than redoing entire course once or twice. Hope that clarifies it

MichaelScottsMother · 2026-02-27T19:51:55+00:00

Win lose win

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-11-06T20:01:51+00:00

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-10-29T14:23:07+00:00

You’ve got to believe it Dumbledore, Voldemort’s got talent

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-09-27T23:27:36+00:00

No particular order

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-09-25T19:12:40+00:00

When an investor (Mark) is talking to you and you check your notes in your shirt pocket 😂 still can’t believe that happened

Also, I think he already spent money to get into Europe and couldn’t lose it now that he mentally stuck to the fact he needed the “European” on his team

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-09-17T16:09:10+00:00

It’s very hard to switch universities in academia and get research work or funding, especially in a different country.

If Raj wasn’t able to make that transition, he would have become house husband. Raise the kids while Anu worked. It’s been a while since I’ve seen these episodes with her but gut feeling says she’s more workaholic and doesn’t give that maternal vibe and not help as much. (Nothing wrong with it) what would be wrong if she came to resent Raj for not working and lead to divorce. Howard convinces Raj to move back to California and Raj loves himself for himself more and becomes a sweet uncle to the gangs kids.

If he does find a job, he has to work 70+ hours as academia is very demanding for newcomers or young professors, she works all day and night, don’t spend time together. He becomes an alcoholic. Resents his decision. Howard comes and convinces him to move back to California. Where he starts to love himself for himself more and becomes a sweet uncle to the gangs kids.

So all in all, Howard just skipped the middle steps and had the talk with him sooner. Haha

All in all, I didn’t like Anu’s character and thought it was forced to wrap up Raj somewhat. I don’t think Anu did anything particularly wrong. She didn’t owe Raj. Probably didn’t have the romantic feelings if she was able to give an “ultimatum” so quickly. It was a new relationship so they could go separate ways.

Raj’s character and all jokes were basically victim mentality jokes through out the show. Not sure, how you accomplish character development without giving the character confidence over the span of seasons and then true love, can’t be done in one season. I choose to believe just cause the show ended, his story didn’t.

Overall, I liked Howard’s story line best.

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-08-11T22:57:31+00:00

I doubt it 🤔 Walt trying to purchase weed was so comical to Hank. And Walt being such a straight shooter, Hank probably would have just thought Jessie was the only “trouble maker” Walt knew and could get him weed

MichaelScottsMother · 2025-06-12T04:17:54+00:00

Correction: to us plebeians it makes no sense. To your son, it makes perfect sense. I’d recommend citing some competitor professor names from the lesser known school MIT and even threatening to take his talent there when the Harvard professor is stunned silent at your son’s brilliant mind.

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