Here at Bar Exam Toolbox, we provide you with countless strategies for moving on and improving scores if you failed your bar exam. But we don’t neglect the fact that it feels horrible when it happens. All that studying (hopefully), all that stress, and you fail. You feel like your whole career is over before it starts. Are you meant to be a lawyer? Will you accomplish all of your lofty goals?
Of course you will!
Failing is not the end of your story: it’s just the beginning! Having taken the test once before can help you improve your studying and pass the next time. It is by no means a blemish on your professional record. In fact, if you fail on your first try, you are joining a distinguished list of successful lawyers who did the same. From Presidents to law school deans, many famous lawyers have not been stopped by bar failure. Here are just a few prominent attorneys who failed their first bar exam: [Read more…] about Famous People Who Failed The Bar But Did Okay In The End
The bar exam is stressful for several reasons. Some of these reasons include how it is easy to feel like your whole life depends on your results, how there is a lot of material to cover, and how you will need to spend a lot of time preparing. In this post, we wanted to help you make a roadmap for your bar exam plan by outlining what you need to do and when you should probably do it.
We have written on several occasions about the benefits of discovering your learning style to better craft your studying methods. This post is specifically about unique visual learning techniques that can help any law student and bar student study in a new way. Even if you don’t identify as a visual learner, try these techniques out. Learning using all of your senses, also called multimodal learning, can significantly improve your retention and engagement when studying.
