@Always Eleven to him,
OmSigDAVID wrote:
Quote:1. I read the full statute, marking it with a hierarchy of symbols
to indicate to myself how important this particular text was.
So much of it as was not important was left untouched.
If it had more than ordinary importance, I underlined the words,
or if thay were several lines, then I put a vertical line in the left margin.
A DOUBLE underline means more importance than single underline.
Different colors of ink can have such meaning as u
assign to those colors.
A curved parenthethis to the left of a paragraf of text
meant more important than a straight vertical line.
A square bracket outranked (in importance) a curved vertical line.
A French brace outranked a square bracket.
A colored star next to a French brace drew my attention to text
of singularly greater importance. Multiple stars meant: remember THIS, especially.
Always Eleven to him wrote:This method works because while you are reading, you are thinking about the concepts and ultimately understanding the concepts. You show that you've understood the material in your ranking method.
Yes, but I think more to the point, it was a
FILTERING and
triage system;
(not to imply only 3 levels of significance).
I found that most of the statutory language was superfluous
and unnecessary; unworthy of being remembered. I underlined the
SIGNIFICANT words to get the meaning of each important sentence,
abandoning useless verbiage. That was very useful.
It cut down the workload to a small fraction; a workable fraction.
Always Eleven to him wrote:It goes back to what contrex, Brandon 9000, and ossobuco have said: You need to read and understand to be able to apply the knowledge later. Simply memorizing doesn't work if you don't know how to work with the material during the exam.
For test passing purposes,
we needed to know the
operative language of the statute.
Upon the basis of my experience with it,
I recommend this strategy of memorization.
David
