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Bar Study Tips: Getting Mentally Ready for the Bar Exam

June 23, 2012 By Lee Burgess 2 Comments

This post contains affiliate links, meaning we may be (minimally!) compensated if you purchase after clicking the link.

Today we’re excited to have Lauren Fire from Mind Over Bar here to answer some questions about mentally preparing for the bar exam.

Without further ado…

Although you practiced law for a number of years, your passion is now mindfulness and the law.  How did you discover this passion?

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Tools for Bar Exam Success: The Multistate Digest

June 20, 2012 By Lee Burgess Leave a Comment

Today I wanted to share with you my thoughts about The Multistate Digest – Passing the Bar Exam by Alfred Zappala (affiliate link).  I am always interested in checking out MBE tools because the MBE is such a struggle for most of us.  Mr. Zappala was nice enough to send me a complimentary copy so I could let you know my thoughts on this as a preparation tool.

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Bar Study Tip: Can Social Media Help You Study for the Bar Exam?

June 19, 2012 By Lee Burgess 1 Comment

You may find it funny that I have posed this question here on my blog, but I am hoping that students studying for the bar exam will read on (and, besides, I use social media to spread the word about my blog).

I have been thinking a lot about how social media can help and/or hinder our bar studying.  This topic came up while I was reading Jessica Klein’s interview with us last week. There she commented,

“[My] first [tip] for studying is to cut out as much, if not all, technology and social networking as possible while studying.”

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Tools for Bar Exam Success: Smarter Review

June 18, 2012 By Alison Monahan 2 Comments

Smarter ReviewOne of the great things about running a website is that occasionally you can do favors for your friends!

In this case, a nice person from Smarter Review contacted me to see if I wanted to check out their bar review course. Conveniently, my law school roommate (who you might remember from this awesome post on getting a public interest job), had just decided to take the NY bar in February.

Win, win. Smarter Review gave her a free course, and she agreed to write about the experience for you.

So, here you go!

(If you’re interested in purchasing Smarter Review, there’s a 15% off discount code at the bottom.)

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Bar Study Tips: What Do You Do if You Aren’t Sure that Bar Prep Is Working for You?

June 17, 2012 By Lee Burgess Leave a Comment

Most commercial bar review courses also have lectures on the written portions (how to approach an essay or a performance test) and the MBE.  These lectures can give you general tips for approaching each section. I think a lot of these lectures are great. They give you a general approach to each part of the exam that you should try out and see if it works for you. The people who come up with these approaches are really smart folks (I am friends with some of them).  And their approaches work for a lot of people.

But let’s be honest, they don’t work for everyone (or I wouldn’t have a job and so many students wouldn’t fail the bar exam every year).

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Bar Study Tip: Self-Studying for the California Bar Exam With “The Goat’s Guide” (Part II)

June 14, 2012 By Lee Burgess Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we posted Part I of our interview with Jessica Klein, the author of the book The Goat’s Guide: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Preparing for the California Bar Exam On Your Own (affiliate link).

Today she is back to share more about self-studying for the California bar.

What do you think is the biggest misconception about self-study for the bar exam?

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