FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGY

THE M.A.D.^TM STUDY METHOD

This book was designed to complement the M.A.D.™ Law Outlines, 720 Series™ Flash Cards, Law Outlines on Disk™, and Flash Cards on Disk™. If you follow the M.A.D.™ study method, your anxiety about law school will disappear and you will spend less time to get better grades.

MEMORIZE

Located in M.A.D.™ Law Outlines, and Law Outlines on Disk™ is a series of legal topics organized by sections with appropriate numbers assigned to each section. The section page identifies the topic, and at the same time, it lists the definition. This is the definition that you should memorize and use in writing for exams. Following the topic page comes the elements page (or pages) listing the elements of the law that explain the given definition. In the 720 Series™ Flash Cards and Flash Cards on Disk™, all the definitional elements that you need to memorize are given to you in each flashcard set. These elements of law need to be memorized, as you will need them for legal analysis. Note: Pay particular attention to memorizing majority and minority law as this will aid you significantly in answering MBE questions and writing exams.

APPLY

The question and answer section for each topic of the M.A.D.™ Law Outlines, Law Outlines on Disk™, 720 Series™ Flash Cards, and Flash Cards on Disk™ will help you begin to apply the law. You should go through these questions at least five times. Located on all the even pages of the study books are pages titled Class Notes. These pages are for your personal use in class. Use these to enhance the given definitions with case notes or with more details on finer points of law that you learn in class. By keeping all your notes in one place and organizing them by specific topics, it will be much easier for you to study for final and bar exams. Of course, if you are using Law Outlines on Disk™ you will be able to modify the basic outline with all your class notes and print it and use that for studying for your exams.

DISSERTATE

Dissertation is essential to your complete understanding of the law, and cannot be overlooked. Simply choose a topic from the outline, close the book, and write down everything you know about that topic in five minutes or less. When you are finished compare what you wrote down to the outline and your class notes for completeness and accuracy. What you did not write down is what you do not know about the law and it is precisely those issues that you will not spot on your exams. For this reason, it is highly recommended that you spend some time memorizing what you do not know. The five-minute time limit is important; it will help you to practice staying within the time limits of exams, and it will help you to organize your thoughts on the topic which gives you a significant advantage in essay writing and issue-spotting.

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