You have questions about the bar exam. How to study. When to study. Whether you’re on the right track. Picking the right bar prep supplements out of all the resources out there.
When you say you want the “best” answers to these questions, what are you really looking for? A sense of certainty? Someone to just tell you what the hell to do? Best for most people or best for you?
How would you even trust that it’s the “best” answer?
(In my view, it’s one where someone is willing to take responsibility for that answer.)
That’s where the danger lies in the landscape of bar prep. You shop around and yet end up where you started. Everyone who passed suddenly has an opinion (and sometimes a tutoring rate), which you should take as just that.
There are no secrets, and there are a million ways to pass. You have it in you already. It’s always been up to you to make them work for you.
Sounds scary but also freeing, right?
Sure, you could use some support from others, but I want to encourage you to listen to yourself a little more instead of blindly doing what someone else says you “need” to do… Not just with bar prep but with everything else in life.
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