Bar Exam Toolbox Blog

Through our bar tutoring, we’ve seen students try just about every study method under the sun. When they hire us, we offer our advice for improving bar scores, but sometimes they ignore that advice. (Which, by the way, if you’re going to ignore all advice, don’t waste money on a bar tutor!) Over the past few years, we’ve seen more and more people following a particular method they’ve heard about on bar forums: “practicing” bar questions by repeatedly copying the model answers to those questions.

This popped up again with a student recently, and I was talking to one of our bar tutors about the method. She compared it to signing up for a marathon and spending months of “training” by watching videos of people running. To be perfectly honest, I’m not a runner, but I think that analogy is perfect because, like the model answers, running videos can, actually, be very useful! They just can’t replace actual running for purposes of preparing for a marathon. [Read more…] about Copying Model Answers Isn’t “Practice”