Nat passed the 2024 February UBE on her second try while working full time. There are a lot of people working and studying at the same time these days. Times are tough!
💬 “I took the UBE bar in July of 2023. . . . Today [April of 2024], I learned that I passed the February 2024 Bar. I have been studying, waiting, or taking the bar since May of 2023. When I sat down for the bar this time, I felt calm.”
It doesn’t seem like much to take the bar exam twice, but that was almost a full year of her life.
One thing to realize is that each non-pass is costly. You have to wait 6 more months to check results again.
If you retake the exam in February, you’ll be finding out whether you passed in April or May next year. That’s a haunting length of time to stay in limbo.
That’s just one reason it’s imperative to Make This Your Last Time. whether you’re a first timer or a repeater, you can learn from the wisdom of your predecessors. Especially while the exam hasn’t changed.
Like many repeaters, she realized the folly of the approaches she used the first time.
💬 “I thought I was supposed to do that as I had done it last time.”
So she tightened up her approach and did what was helping her learn. She was always pivoting and correcting course instead of being stuck along one path (like many Passer’s Playbook users).
💬 “I would find myself saying things like ‘this is passive learning, why are you doing this?’ and I would change how I was doing it.”
Her motivation? Not taking the bar exam a third time (aka making this her last time).
💬 “My drive for passing? I didn’t think I could take it a third time, I didn’t want to tell people I hadn’t passed AGAIN, and I wanted to keep my job.”
Nat shares a lot of strategies in her story. I’ll break down the key ones. See if you want to try using them.
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