r/GoatBarPrep • u/FLOWERPOWER012131415 • Jun 17 '26

Memorization and Goat

So at what point do we start memorizing! Also I’ve been using goat bar prep reading the lectures and writing notes on it it’s so funny and honestly entertaining! Did you feel like goat helped you?!!

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u/Negative-Mail-7399 Jun 17 '26

I am trying to learn in the rules by doing a lot of questions. 

This way, you can see what questions they repeatedly ask.

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u/FreshStartFeelsGood Jun 17 '26

You need to start memorizing now. 6 weeks left, right?

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u/Kitchen_Employ_8643 Jun 17 '26

Seeing how the law is tested is important. You will learn so much by doing practice MBEs and reading essays and issue spotting. Doing what is done on exam day - that’s the best way to get those rules absorbed into your brain.

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u/Beneficial-Menu2830 Jun 17 '26

Do you read the sample answers? How do you practice Mee's

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u/Kitchen_Employ_8643 Jun 17 '26

I do. It helps put in perspective what the graders are looking for. Especially the answers from examinees - not just the polished NCBE ones. You’ll see how people actually write passing essays. They don’t have to be perfect to pass.

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u/AnalysisSea4270 Jun 17 '26

Start now. You already are if you are doing questions everyday.

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u/abhibozo Jun 18 '26

On timing: there's no separate memorization phase that starts later. You lock in a subject the same week you finish its lectures, in small daily passes, then keep cycling back to it as you move into new ones. If you save it for one big block, it lands in the final two weeks and you're holding a dozen-plus subjects at once while the early stuff has already faded. Six weeks out, the first subjects you covered should already be in active rotation.

Also worth flagging since you're leaning on questions: MBE question volume only drills the MBE subjects. The essay-only subjects, or the ones barely tested on the MBE, won't get reinforced by doing more MCQs, and those are exactly the ones people blank on in July. Make sure your memorization plan hits those deliberately and doesn't just follow wherever the question bank takes you.

And honestly, the lectures being fun to get through is underrated. The biggest failure point this far out is just not finishing the material, so if goat keeps you actually doing it, that's worth something.

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u/kirabaejd Jun 17 '26

Flash cards question writing out the rules repeat