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California Bar Prep - Bar Secrets

Featured bar exam and law school preparation materials
The Multistate Subjects 2nd Edition
The California Law Subjects
An Essay Approach for the Multistate Subjects
An Essay Approach for the California-Specific Subjects
Welcome to Bar Secrets

Bar Secrets® California Bar Prep and MBE Books

Bar Secrets is an integrated program of materials developed by Applications of Psychology to Law, Inc. We are a corporation founded to assist law students and attorneys to understand principles of psychology as they apply to law practice. 

Our California Bar Prep books were developed to make the job of assimilating the law and writing law essays easier, more efficient, and less stressful. We do that by applying the latest knowledge from psychology - human memory and cognition - to the problem of organizing and learning the huge number of rules and principles that form the law.

The Schematic Approach

No one - not even a chess master - can learn the thousands of rules and elements that appear on the Bar exam without a "trick". The schematic approach provides such a trick by showing you the most effective way of organizing and learning. It is faster, more efficient and much easier than conventional methods. In the schematic approach, information is presented the way the human brain stores it. In learning any topic, the brain begins by forming a simple general categorical framework. Detailed information is then added to that framework in stages.

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Secrets of Human Memory

Studying for law exams or the Bar exam doesn't have to be torture. You don't have to memorize hundreds of disjointed rules and elements. This is not the smart way to use your memory.

What is memory? Well, it's many things. People who claim to have poor memories really mean they have poor "retrieval" skills. Retrieval means recalling, or recovering information once learned. One of the most important secrets of memory is that one's ability to retrieve (recall) information depends on how we deal with it in the first place!

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