Many students struggle with how to tackle the Multistate Performance Test (MPT). The trouble with the MPT, of course, is time. The problems are not generally particularly complex, but when you are trying to process and sort through a large …
Learning Mode!
Remember that you’re still in learning mode. All of the practice you are doing now is designed to help you learn how to take the bar exam. It is understandable that missing issues/rules on MBE questions, essays, and MPTs is …
Don’t Worry. Be Selfish
A few weeks in to bar prep, it may be hard to continue to make bar study the primary focus of your life. Even extremely supportive friends and family miss you, and are wondering how they’re going to sustain the …
What a Week
This has been a tough week in the news. Multiple mass shootings in the same day. A horrific and deadly fire in an public apartment complex in London. Someone bombed a kindergarten in China. A young woman was found guilty …
Make a List and Check it Twice
After you do a set of MBEs or an essay, reflect on why you answered correctly, and why you answered a question incorrectly. Keep It’s important to be thoughtful and reflective about the process of doing practice questions. Keep a …
Just Keep Going
You’re a few weeks in. You’re in the groove. It’s starting to feel routine. But the exam still feels like it’s so far away, and there is still so much to learn. That’s OK. You’re exactly where you need to …
But what if I don’t know the rule? (or) Fake It ‘Til You Make It!
There will be a moment on the bar exam when you will stare at an essay and won’t know the rule. I’m not talking about when you forget an element, or you kind of know the rule but aren’t sure …
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So you hate your bar review company?
Around now, a lot of people express dissatisfaction with their commerical bar review companies. It’s kind of like when you’re a teenager and you hate your parents. It’s completely normal. It’s absolutely true that they don’t understand you. But it’s …
Paper, Please!
The bar exam is still given on paper. Even though you can type your answers to the MPT and essays, you are still given those questions (and the MBEs) in paper booklets. Therefore, it’s important to practice reading questions on …
Practice, Practice, Practice!
You want to do three things each day – watch your lecture, make/tweak your study materials, and do some form of practice. This means doing MBEs and essays every day (or at least every other day), and at least one …
