Creative Cramming

If necessity is the mother of invention, then "studying" for an exam less than 10 hours away should be motivation enough for inventing better techniques.

I was thinking about this problem as I finally fell asleep four hours ago when it became apparent as I started browsing through the cases for Constitutional Law II (LLB128), that there were just too much information to process in so little time. And my reading queue has pretty much overflowed already.

The problem was also compounded by the fact that in my Special Penal Laws (LLB131) I'm using materials used by my classmates and I during presentation of various presidential decrees and Republic Acts. So, quality of information was very much an issue.

So, how do I reframe the problem?

I already started exploring the problem in my recent pieces at Cannot Defend the Bill of Rights (members only) and in the last piece I wrote—Good News and Bad News.

Today, I'll try to develop a workable version of a solution I'm forming in my head. It's a solution based on the observation that there are actually fewer types of information than we realize. And they seemed to be available already, but not readily apparent to the law student. My immediate problem now is to how to identify these types of information that will allow me to transform raw information into the desired end-product or outcome—i.e., candidate exam answers.
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* [0227H] And making the lack of time more acute, I actually watched the recent episode of House as soon as the torrent finished downloading.