BAR REVIEW PLANNER My first reading was supposed to be for Seventy Nine (79) days more or less and the second reading of the review would take a mere forty two (42) days. Then after the two sets of readings I’ll have a Pre-Week reading for only Fifteen (15) days after taking a breather of two days. REMEDIAL LAW (15 Days) • Herrera, Civil Procedure Annotated Vol. I • Regalado, Civil Procedure Annotated Vol. I and II • Lecture notes from Justice Feria and Carlos Ortega (March 14-31, 2011) COMMERCIAL LAW (14 Days) • Vitug, Pandect of Commercial Law • Villanueva- Commercial Law Reviewer I was supposed to listen to Balbastro’s lecture but opted just to read instead. CRIMINAL LAW (12 Days) • Ortega Notes- which UP students prepared during the Advanced Review • Revised Penal Code, Reyes- Volume 1 and 2 • Lecture notes from Carlos Ortega Plus the short text prepared by Justice Sandoval CIVIL LAW (12 Days) • Jurado, Civil Law Reviewer • Albano, Civil Law Review I no longer listened to Judge Ed Albano but got to know from my review mates what he said since our review room was adjacent to the UP Bar Review Center TAXATION (8 Days) • Domondon- Reviewer (yellow) • Domondon- Reviewer (brown) • Notes from Francisco Sababan • Answers to Questions by Abella • Lecture: Edwin Abella and Abelardo Domondon LABOR LAW REVIEW (8 days) • Chito Claudio, Labor and Social Legislation (recommended by my brother) • Alcantara- Labor Law Reviewer POLITICAL LAW REVIEW (6 days probably 5 cause I need a breather) • Bernas- Political Law Reviewer • Nachura- Political Law Reviewer LEGAL ETHICS (4 days) • Pano- Legal Ethics • Pineda- Legal Ethics and Exercises I practiced writing a form each day a contract, an affidavit-
By July 4 - I was supposed to be in my second reading but during the actual reviewI started my second reading on July 6- which meant I’ll cut two daysPOLITICAL LAW (5 days) • RAM Notes- RAM is the acronym of the person who made the notes • Actually its V.V. Mendoza’s and Nachura’s Lecture – combined • Questions and Answers in Political Law • Cruz- Political Law • Cruz- Constitutional Law • Codal- Election Law and Local GovernmentI finished RAM for two days, took a day for the Questions and Answer and Cruz- I compressed for a day and a half so I had some time to look at the Codals LABOR LAW (4 days I chopped it to three) • Manalac- Labor Standards and Labor Relations • Question and Answer in Labor Law • Disini Notes (I finished Manalac for a day- and Q and A for a second day- plus Disini notes for a day- so it meant a rest day for one day) CIVIL LAW (7 days- I chopped it to five) • Albano, Reviewer in Civil Law • Question and Answer in Civil Law • Casanova-Land, Titles and Deeds • Property- Notes from Ateneo Note: By June- we have already traded review materials with UP, San Beda and AteneoTAXATION (5 days) • Domondon- yellow text • Domondon- brown text • Codal Provisions • 1997 and 1996 bar Questions and Answer (the complete Question and Answers to Bar Questions was not then available) COMMERCIAL LAW- (7 days) • Commecial Law Reviewer- Balbastro (I wonder why I read this book) • Question and Answer in Commercial/Mercantile Law • Cantindig Notes • Pandect of Vitug- which I enjoyed reading CRIMINAL LAW (5 days I chopped to four) • Ortega Notes • Codal Provisions • Questions and Answers to Criminal Law REMEDIAL LAW (7 days I chopped to 6) • Regalado, Civil Procedure- Francisco Notes • Albano, Reviewer • Evidence notes from Benipayo’s lecture
Note: I got sick during this time- so the actual reading only consisted of 5 days) LEGAL ETHICS (2 days- I chopped to 1 and a half) • Pano Legal Ethics • Question and Answer Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises I was supposed to start my pre-week on August 18 but started it on August 20-by then the bar was near- I was only poring over Memory Aids some made by me, tapes, handouts, digests, labor case, and notes from UP and Ateneo plus UST- I call it my stay at Castle Wolfenstein in preparation for---Death Ride of the Panzers- the days during the barFor Political Law I was only reading the Outline Reviewer of Nachura- and my notes Labor Law- I re-read only Manalac and Claudio Civil Law- Memory Aids, Codals and Jurado’s Pre-Week Taxation- my notes, Sababan’s notes and the Codal Commercial Law- my notes, Villanueva’s Commercial Law Review Remedial Law- Feria ‘s notes, the Rules of Court and Albano ’s reviewer Legal Ehtics- Pano and Bautista-plus some notes and my prepared forms
