Bar Exam Preparation
So you find yourself in an unbelievable situation: You failed the bar exam.
Reality is undeniable. You dust off your tears. It’s time to take action.
You wonder: What’s the next step?
Should you retake your bar prep course? What’s the alternative?
Continue reading “What If You Failed the Bar Exam? Should You Retake a Bar Review Course?”You heard it’s easy to study for the MPRE… But how easy?
“I studied over the weekend, and look how I turned out! LOL!”
Don’t listen to these people. Everyone’s different. The MPRE is not as difficult as the bar exam, but you still want to take it seriously.
The MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam) is an important part of the process of becoming a licensed attorney. It tests your knowledge of professional ethics and responsibilities related to the practice of law in the United States.
Yet another exam?! I know, right? You have the bar exam, the MPRE, the NYLE (New York Law Exam) if you’re in New York, the Patent Bar if you want to work with patents… Not to mention all those finals you may have just taken in law school.
Well, let’s get the MPRE out of the way. The silver lining is that it’s not as hard as the bar exam.
Continue reading “How to Study for the MPRE: What & When of Effective MPRE Prep”Weeks and months of insanity preparing for the bar exam while putting on life on hold.
The onslaught of psychologically tormenting questions.
It’s over.
The hard-fought battle has ended. The dust has settled. There’s nothing left. No rewards. Just palpable silence (filled only with “how do you think you did? oh wow”) and an empty space in your heart. What were you fighting for this whole time?
It’s hard to believe it’s over, isn’t it?
We get attached to the struggle.
Now yet another difficult part called “waiting” begins. It might be harder than the actual prep. After the shell shock that was the bar exam, what do you do?
What is “free time” again? Is it edible? Will life be the same?
Some people seem to be completely happy with this state of being, while others get post-bartum depression. Let’s recover from your mixed feelings and bring life back to normal.
Here are 21 ideas on what to do to stay sane (and a few things NOT to do) if you have post bar exam depression (ideas that have nothing to do with studying for the exam “just in case” even though the bar exam is over).
Continue reading “What to Do After the Bar Exam to Live a Normal Life Again (21 Post-Bartum Ideas)”Ahh shit… You utter the first word of the day as a dying declaration.
Because it’s time. Is it really that real? Let’s do this!
Implementing, practicing, and doing. I hope, by doing those things consistently, you’ve made solid progress.
Maybe you don’t feel ready. The good news is that the more prepared you actually are, the less you feel prepared. The bad news is that the other way isn’t necessarily true. You don’t know what you don’t know.
Not all hope is lost, ye weary traveler. It’s time to put your training to the test.
For now, go in with a “might as well, even if I don’t feel ready” or a “you never know until you try” attitude.
You’ll be able to say, “I’m glad I tried.”
You’ve worked hard these past weeks and months. You’ve come all this way. Let’s finish it without any hiccups at the very end.
We don’t want a “failure of the last mile” to undo all we’ve done up until now. Here are some final tips for bar exam week.
Continue reading “Admire the Buttcrack (and 9 Other Last Minute Tips for the Bar Exam)”Grace took the California Bar Exam in July but only passed in February after forming a strategy.
💬 “Despite my bad 1L grades, I still had secured a job in biglaw. Maybe as a result of that, the threat of something not working out didn’t really set in. . . . My heart wasn’t in it and I had no strategy.
After July 2023 results came out, I was hurt but not surprised.”
She approached bar prep on her second attempt differently and even ended up reaching up to 85-90% on AdaptiBar!
How did she do it?
Continue reading “Scoring 85% on AdaptiBar in the Last Two Weeks of Bar Prep”