Dennis was a nice guy. House, garden, wife, decent job, 2.2 kids, played soccer, coached on the weekend with his oldest son Jimmy, age 8 and couldn't pass the BAR if his life depended on it. He'd taken it and failed 8 times over a six-year period while working in the family import-export business. His job was safe. His dad and his sister owned the company. They had a staff attorney. Overall, he was in okay shape with the rest of his life, but this BAR exam was driving him nuts. Dennis finally sought expert counsel, and we reviewed and evaluated the results of an extended physical exam, educational evaluation, psychological testing, his family, work, exercise, diet, and allergies. The answer became clear: Dennis was tremendously disorganized in his study methods. No one had ever taught him to study; he had simply managed to get by. He just couldn't pull the pieces together by himself. Though he had good law tutors and teachers in his BAR review, no one had ever taken the time to find out what was happening in his learning, writing, thinking and expressing styles. He had stacks of paper with cute techniques given by many well-intended educators and helpers, all of which had their favorite methods, outlines and secret formulas. The problem was that he was just "jumbled" enough that he wouldn't have recognized a good technique if it bit him on the nose, and he definitely wouldn't know when to apply it even if it a good opportunity came his way. He could spout definitions and cites, but simply couldn't keep the pieces together. The solution: even though he wasn't "learning disabled," a good deal of Dennis' efficiency was lost to poor organization. Many individuals can modify their styles and techniques of learning, memorizing, and expressing to reflect the requirements of a given task. Many others, such as Dennis, don't have any real ability to find a learning style and method appropriate to the task. It helped Dennis to create an integrated study schedule and a template for personal organization in order to manage his physical and emotional efficiency. What Dennis needed to most work on was his skills domain. The solution was to train him in a variety of study and test-taking techniques, showing him how to recognize what circumstances and methods would be best applied to what environment. The result: Dennis passed but barely. He was relieved to recognize that the world of learning didn't have to be as jumbled. He went on to study thinking processes and became increasingly interested in finance, doing very well in his newfound "passion" for developing investment models and strategies.