Bar Exam Preparation
Abel passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam on his first try, after he’s had enough of his bar prep course.
I’ll keep this one short since you have eggnog to drink and I’m in Cancun on vacation.
But this success story still emphasizes important messages for your success on this exam.
Continue reading “How Abel Taught Himself to Pass the California Bar Exam”Jared passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam on his first try, despite being in a panic in the last month of bar prep, while juggling family duties and working full-time.
💬 “I was in a ‘I have to pass!!!’ panic the last six weeks prior to the exam. For context, I spent four years doing law school at night, I have a family, and I work full-time.”
💬 “I had a mini-panic a month before the exam, because I just didn’t think the material or schedule was working for me.”
I like this story because it once again emphasizes the lesson of pivoting from “trust the process” to “trust yourself.”
💬 “My strategy was idiosyncratic and focused on what I needed to do to pass.”
Continue reading “Taking Ownership of Your Bar Prep to Pass the Bar Exam”Ever wonder how you’re supposed to juggle everything in your head? How do you prioritize the rules to know for the bar exam?
How are you supposed to learn all this when time is tight? How do you tackle the massive body of rules to know?
How do you know you’ve completed the essay in full? Did you even talk about the correct issues? Are the graders going to give you the points? Are they even going to read your prose?!
You’d love to start practicing essays but feel like you just haven’t learned enough law yet. It’s overwhelming to even begin.
At least the answer is right there in MBE questions… If you’re a bar taker struggling with coming up with what to write, essays are the bane of your existence. Your rambling paragraphs start to blur.
Let’s breathe. We can simplify the essays and make them less scary…
Key takeaways:
Another foreign-trained lawyer, another success story.
Argentina doesn’t even have a bar exam, yet Juliana was able to pass the 2023 July California Bar Exam on her first try while working full-time as an attorney.
How did she learn to do that?
Continue reading “Argentinian Attorney Passes CA Bar Exam from Scratch (10 Years Out of School)”
Here’s another story about a foreign-trained lawyer who made it out.
Laura from Australia passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam on her first try—preparing while working full-time as a senior lawyer in a global firm. She got to a place where she was “very excited” by the end!
Here’s how she managed to get to that state of excitement during bar prep and coming out of the exam. See how you CAN do things, rather than what you CAN’T do.
Continue reading “How an Australian Lawyer Got Excited to Take the CA Bar Exam While Working Full Time (and Passed)”