Book List for Bar Review

These are the books that I used for my review. TIP: It's advisable to use the books you've been using all through your entire four years of law school. The advantages are: (1) you are already familiar with it; (2) you've probably already noted the more important passages and added in some text of your own; and finally (3) you can save your money for more important things, like your plane tickets to and accommodation in Manila for the exam month.



Political Law

1. Nachura's Outline/Reviewer in Political Law
2. 1987 Constitution of the Philippines codal (with LGC, Omnibus Election Code, etc.)
3. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)

Labor Law and Social Legislation

1. Azucena's Everyone's Labor Code
2. Full text of social legislations
3. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)

Civil Law

1. Jurado's Civil Law Review
2. Civil Code of the Philippines codal
3. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)

Taxation Law

1. Vitug's Tax Law and Jurisprudence
2. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)

Commercial Law

1. Sundiang's Commercial Law Reviewer
2. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)
3. Materials provided by my professor in Commercial Law Review

Criminal Law

1. Reyes' Criminal Law Books I & II
2. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)

Remedial Law

1. Regalado's Remedial Law Compendium Vol. 1
2. Rules of Court codal
3. Personal notes (with updated jurisprudence)

Legal Ethics

1. Sample forms
2. Memory aids
3. Rules of Court codal

For the Saturdays before the exam, I no longer went through my review materials but instead read past Bar Exam questions and answers in order to school myself on the form of questions to be expected and the proper way to answer them.