I have never in my life adhered to a plan of study successfully.
Maybe this will be a first? Considering the alternative (endless adjuncting with endless students), maybe this time I will be sufficiently motivated.
I am using Lisa Parmley's PatentEducationSeries.com , which my dad paid for some ten years ago when my mom was trying to get me to do this. Yes, I feel quite the loser, I know. Fortunately, Lisa Parmley's people have a very generous idea of subscription: it's forever.
There were spiral bound books from this subscription, but those I have discarded some time ago. No regrets there: they're outdated by now, and the patent bar exam is administered electronically with reference materials available online during the exam. This means my study of the reference materials should also be online.
Conveniently, there is a Lisa Parmley podcast, too with 50 episodes.
Here is my plan: I will use the Pomodoro 25-minutes-at-a-time method to complete one Parmley module per day. I will listen to a podcast episode while driving occasionally. Eventually I will end up hearing them all because there are only 50 episodes, while the study plan will take me 6 months to complete. There is a Parmley marketing video which will come to me in the next couple of days, I think, which will suggest a study plan. After watching that video, I will update my own study plan with further details.
Actually I do not need to wait for the video. There is a convenient PDF guide to a pre-designed study plan. There are several study plans available, based on length of time before the exam; I choose the 6-month version. It requires studying 4 days per week, about one hour each of those days. For me this means maybe three Pomodoros.
Maybe this will be a first? Considering the alternative (endless adjuncting with endless students), maybe this time I will be sufficiently motivated.
I am using Lisa Parmley's PatentEducationSeries.com , which my dad paid for some ten years ago when my mom was trying to get me to do this. Yes, I feel quite the loser, I know. Fortunately, Lisa Parmley's people have a very generous idea of subscription: it's forever.
There were spiral bound books from this subscription, but those I have discarded some time ago. No regrets there: they're outdated by now, and the patent bar exam is administered electronically with reference materials available online during the exam. This means my study of the reference materials should also be online.
Conveniently, there is a Lisa Parmley podcast, too with 50 episodes.
Here is my plan: I will use the Pomodoro 25-minutes-at-a-time method to complete one Parmley module per day. I will listen to a podcast episode while driving occasionally. Eventually I will end up hearing them all because there are only 50 episodes, while the study plan will take me 6 months to complete. There is a Parmley marketing video which will come to me in the next couple of days, I think, which will suggest a study plan. After watching that video, I will update my own study plan with further details.
Actually I do not need to wait for the video. There is a convenient PDF guide to a pre-designed study plan. There are several study plans available, based on length of time before the exam; I choose the 6-month version. It requires studying 4 days per week, about one hour each of those days. For me this means maybe three Pomodoros.
Update: it seems I take a longer time to study than the plan expects. I might have to change this to the 12-month plan, unless my speed increases soon. I'm already two days behind, and I've only just completed half of Day 2's work.
ReplyDeleteNo, the 12-month plan just inserts more break days. My problem is that module 3 and module 4 were on the same day. I want a study plan that puts them on separate days. I'll just keep the 6-month plan on the slide show, but take twice as long to get through it.
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