Must-Have Law Reviewers for the 2025 Philippine Bar Exams

With the 2025 bar exams ongoing, we’re pretty sure, exam takers like you are jittery about what’s to come and thus, are frantically looking for Philippine law reviewers. This article compiles all the reviewers you will ever need for the days leading up to (or even on the days themselves) the most important moment of your career as lawyers.

Why Law Reviewers Matter for the 2025 Bar Exam

A law reviewer in the Philippines is a condensed study guide containing past bar exam Q&As and summaries of key legal doctrines.The bar exams are now here and a compiled reviewer for each law subject will help ease your tense mind. 

Consolidated Reviewers and Memory Retention

Last-minute reviewing is all that bar takers need at the moment and consolidated reviewers can help with that. Since the bar exams are near, studying smart to help memory retention is more of a necessity now more than ever. Some techniques to help you do so are as follows:

1. Retrieval 

Retrieval practice, also known as active recall, may be done by consistently recalling information you just reviewed about. You can ask yourself questions about topics you just reviewed or dump all the information you just read about on a piece of paper. 

2. Spaced Practice

While it may sound counterproductive to engage in spaced practice, you can still do it by spreading out the remaining law subjects you need to study for instead of just dumping all information to be reviewed in one day.

3. Making Mnemonics

My personal favorite is making funny mnemonics where you take the first letters of the elements you need to memorize and create an acronym.

Practicing with the ALAC Method

The ALAC or the Answer-Legal Basis-Application-Conclusion method is the most popular way to answer any legal question or issue, whether you are a law student or a lawyer. As well-defined in Atty. Raymond Rodis’ article, the ALAC method emphasizes a straightforward answer first before qualifying it using laws or jurisprudence. 

Reviewers which have essay questions patterned after previous bar exams will be extremely helpful in helping you practice this ALAC method. 

Free Resources vs Paid Review Centers

Political & Commercial Law Reviewers

Last September 7, you took your first set of bar exams covering concepts in Political & Public International Law and Commercial & Taxation Laws. The following links pertain to useful 2025 Law Reviewers suitable for your rechecking needs:

1. Questions & Suggested Answers for Political Law

This document contains various compiled bar questions from the years 2007 to 2013 with suggested answers by the UP Law Complex & the Philippine Association of Law Schools. 

2. Questions & Suggested Answers for Mercantile Law Part 1

Similar to the previous one, this contains compiled bar questions from the years 1990 to 2006. 

3. Questions & Suggested Answers for Mercantile Law Part 2

This compiled suggested answers document from the bar examinations of 2007 to 2013 is helpful in understanding the various concepts taken up in mercantile law subjects such as insurance, corporation law, and credit transactions.

4. Questions & Suggested Answers for Taxation Law Part 1

This reviewer contains suggested answers for the bar exam questions on taxation law from 1990-2006. 

5. Questions & Suggested Answers for Taxation Law Part 2

This more updated reviewer contains suggested answers for the bar exam questions on taxation law from 2007-2013.

While these reviewers contain questions & answers that will be helpful in practicing your answering skills using the ALAC (answer, legal basis, application, and conclusion) method, do note that these answers might contain legal provisions that have already been repealed or amended. Make it a habit to check (and recheck) with our wide database of up to date laws here.

Civil & Labor Law Reviewers

For your second day tomorrow, September 10, you will be taking your second set of exams on civil & labor law. While this day seems to be the most loaded day of the three because of the amount of concepts to cover, don’t fret because the law reviewer links below has got you:

1. Questions & Suggested Answers for Civil Law 

This reviewer contains numerous bar questions on civil law concepts from the years 1990 to 2006. 

2. Questions & Suggested Answers for Labor Law

This document likewise contains numerous bar questions on labor law concepts from the bar years of 2007 to 2013

Criminal Law, Remedial Law, & Legal and Judicial Ethics 

Finally, on September 14, you will be taking your last bar exam set with legal issues on criminal, remedial, and judicial ethics. The following will surely help get rid of your last-minute worries:

1. Reviewers on Criminal Law contain numerous questions on basic principles, crimes and their elements, and penalties:

2. Reviewers on remedial law, criminal & civil procedure, special proceedings, and evidence can be easily accessed below:

Last but not the least, a quick reviewer specifically tailored for this year’s bar examinations can be found here which contains the doctrines extracted from the cases penned by this year’s bar chairperson, Justice Lazaro-Javier.

How to Navigate Updated Laws and Cases for Reviewing with Digest AI

A quick and easy review is what every bar taker seeks to do. However if you feel like there is something else missing, consult Digest.ph’s AI tools to swiftly and effectively calm your nerves. 

Using Digest’s Case Law Philippines Database

Digest.ph offers a wide range of services from full-text cases to summaries. You can pick and choose which suit you best. This will be very helpful in filling in the gaps you have identified during your last-minute review for the bar exams.

Need a quick recent Supreme Court decisions refresher? You can filter your case search by simply limiting your date range as follows:

Need a last-minute check of the legal doctrines of possible cases that will appear in the bar? We got you:

Need a complete toolkit for the upcoming bar exams? A bar exam page is especially for you right here. 

Exploring the Law Syllabus Philippines for Coverage

In case you are not yet fulfilled with the linked reviewers above, you can conduct your own review while using the compiled syllabi available on Digest.ph. These are helpful in guiding your quick review sessions before the exams and may even serve as a checklist for your review. 

Key takeaways

• Bar reviewers containing Q&As from previous bar takers are great last-minute tools for getting rid of the nerves.

• Reviewers containing suggested answers help one practice their ALAC answering skills.

• Taking note of the respective subjects for every day of the bar exams helps divide the concepts one must review for the bar exams.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the purpose of a review checklist?

A review checklist allows a future bar taker to see for him/herself what law subjects & concepts need to be reviewed. It can be customized to fit when, what, and how a student studies.

What is a law review?

A law review is an academic journal containing various articles on pressing legal issues. This is usually written by law students, lawyers, and legal experts.

What is the most powerful law in the Philippines?

The most powerful (and fundamental) law in the Philippines is the Constitution as all laws created by our law-making authority must conform to its provisions.

Further Reading

Conclusion

Compiling last-minute law reviewers for the upcoming 2025 Philippine Bar Exams shouldn’t be complicated. This article easily lists down links to law reviewers helpful in relieving any nerves you might have.

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