Studying for the bar exam is stressful. But it is also your chance to take control and bring together the scattered threads of law that you learned in law school. To succeed, you must plan your life, as the old saying goes, and live your plan. Because of Covid 19, you may even have a … Continue reading Six Tips for 16 Weeks of Bar Prep
The best method for learning how law applies to facts, believe it or not, is talking to yourself, what neuroscientists call metacognition. Put the rules on flashcards and memorize them.
Civil Procedure has so many rules, and bar candidates have so little time!
Two tips. First, simplify things. Look for the patterns and diagram them. Second, focus on mastering key terms for every stage of the litigation!
MBE Evidence Secret Is Memorizing and Hard Work Bar candidates often wring their hands over MBE evidence questions. But in fact, evidence is one of the easiest parts of the MBE. Doing hundreds of practice questions a day is not the answer. Nor is there a complicated secret strategy. Instead, the MBE evidence secret is … Continue reading MBE Evidence Secret
By Mary Campbell Gallagher, J.D., Ph.D., Founder and President of BarWrite and BarWrite Press This post originally appeared in slightly different form as a guest blog post on the Lawyerist blog. Are some study methods better than others? Emphatically yes. For one thing, good ways to study for the bar exam are active, not passive. … Continue reading 5 Loser and 5 Winner Study Methods
MBE Disaster on the Way? Reports from Pennsylvania suggest that nationwide MBE scores on the February 2017 bar exam have hit an all-time low. MBE scores fell from 136.2 to 135 on the February 2016 bar exam. But on the February 2017 exam the MBE plummeted to 134. The previous lowest score, in 1980, was 134.3. With … Continue reading MBE Disaster on the Way?
Looking ahead to a long stretch of studying for the bar exam? Here are "Six Tips for Planning for Ten Weeks of Bar Exam Prep." Studying for the bar exam is stressful. But it is also your chance to take control and bring together the scattered threads of law that you learned in law school. … Continue reading Six Tips for Planning for 10 Weeks of Bar Prep
Studying for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) by doing 33 or 50 or 100 practice questions a day is what everyone tells you to do, but it is exhausting, it eats up all your time, and it does not necessarily help you pass the bar exam. Actually to raise your score on the MBE requires a narrower focus, learning more law, memorizing rules, and relentlessly practicing legal analysis.
You can manage the MBE. One key on the MBE is to analyze the fact pattern first, decide on your own answer to the interrogatory, then skim the answer choices for the one closest to your own answer. Don't just glance at the fact pattern and then let yourself get twisted around by the answer … Continue reading How to Manage the MBE
The facts of the PMBR case are riveting. At every administration, the NCBE uses some recent MBE questions again, so as to make sure that the new exam is of the same level of difficulty as the previous exam. PMBR, knowing this, would systematically copy the MBE questions and use them in the pre-test it … Continue reading The PMBR Case Teaches Some Lessons
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