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Famous People Who Failed The Bar But Did Okay In The End

November 27, 2017 By John Nikolaou Leave a Comment

Famous people who failed the bar exam but did okay in the endHere 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

Planning For The Bar Exam: What To Do And When To Do It

August 8, 2017 By John Nikolaou Leave a Comment

Planning for the bar exam- what to do whenThe 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.

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Mind Maps and Other Fun Visual Learning Methods

March 22, 2017 By John Nikolaou Leave a Comment

Mind Maps and Other Fun Visual Learning Methods for Law SchoolWe 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.

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So You Just Finished the Bar and…You’re Worried About Your Score

March 8, 2017 By John Nikolaou Leave a Comment

So You Just Finished the Bar and…You’re Worried About Your ScoreCongratulations on finishing the bar and welcome back to our new series, “So you just finished the bar and…”. In this series we streamline our advice to help answer your most pressing questions post-bar! Read the first article of the series here.

In the first part of this series, we focused on ways to look forward and move on after the bar exam. You need to get back your life! But, we are realistic, and we know that worry about your bar results will creep into your mind. In this post, we give our advice on how to handle that. [Read more…] about So You Just Finished the Bar and…You’re Worried About Your Score

Did You Just Finish the Bar? Wondering What’s Next?

March 3, 2017 By John Nikolaou Leave a Comment

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Congratulations on finishing the bar and welcome to our new series, “So you just finished the bar and…” In this series we streamline our advice to help answer your most pressing questions post-bar!  [Read more…] about Did You Just Finish the Bar? Wondering What’s Next?

Strategies for Common Performance Test Issues

January 26, 2017 By John Nikolaou Leave a Comment

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The performance test (PT) section of the bar exam is somewhat of an enigma. It is unique to study for in several ways. The tricky thing about the PT is that there is no material to study. On the performance test section of the bar exam, you will complete a “task memo” requiring you to review a “file” and a “library” (basically a set of facts and laws). Using these two resources, you will need to complete the assignment described in the “task memo.” All the law is given to you. So, what do you need to study? How can anything go wrong? [Read more…] about Strategies for Common Performance Test Issues

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