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.
Here’s how a lot of questions go on social media:
“What’s the BEST program/tutor/outline?”
When you say you want the “best” answers to these questions, it makes me wonder:
Is it the feeling of certainty that you’re really looking for? Someone to just tell you what the hell to do? Or do you actually want the objective best answer?
If you crowdsource the answer, by definition, you won’t know which one is best. Advice is autobiography.
How would you even trust which is the one that rules them all?
In fact, the more options you have, the more hesitant you get because there are pros and cons to every option. By saying yes to something, you’re saying no to other things.
But 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.
Sounds scary but also freeing, right?
Sure, sometimes you want to vent and don’t want to consider the pedantic interpretations of what’s “best.” You simply want to get some support from others.
But I want to encourage you to listen to yourself a little more instead of blindly being influenced by what someone else says you “need” to do (not just with bar prep but with everything else in life).
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 service).
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