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How to Write Bar Exam Essays: Strategies and Tactics to Help You Pass the Bar Exam Kindle Edition

by Matt Racine (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Anyone taking the bar exam can improve his or her essay writing skills by reading this book because it teaches a systematic and uncomplicated approach to writing bar exam essays.



Does this sound familiar?



You’ve written dozens of exam essays during law school. You’ve been practicing writing bar exam essay responses. But, even with all these hours and days of essay practice, you still have no idea how to write a clear, concise legal exam essay response. You genuinely have been trying each semester during law school. You are doing your best with bar exam prep, but you just don’t seem to be getting it.



You are not alone. In my experience, the majority of bar exam students have more difficulties writing bar exam essays than they do with any other part of the bar exam.



If left unaddressed, these difficulties can have long-term and expensive consequences. Failure to pass the bar exam because of poor essay writing is not uncommon. And, we all know, if you don’t pass the bar exam, you cannot practice law. You can’t start earning that long-anticipated lawyer salary. Your dream of becoming a lawyer will have to wait at least another six months until the next bar exam.



But, once you learn how to write bar exam essays the right way, nothing can stop you. You will be able to earn a passing score on the essay portion of the exam and very likely will pass the bar exam! Your friends and family will be proud of you and, more importantly, you will be proud of yourself.



How to Write Bar Exam Essays is a concise, no-nonsense book, showing you how to write and practice bar exam essays in an easily-understandable way.



How to Write Bar Exam Essays begins with a chapter discussing the right mindset for bar exam preparation.



The next section of the book gets to the heart of the matter, discussing the four pillars of bar exam essay writing:




    • technical requirements;

    • issue spotting;

    • outlining and formatting; and

    • analysis.





    Each pillar has its own chapter, complete with examples.



    How to Write Bar Exam Essays finishes with a detailed discussion of practice strategy and scheduling to ensure that your essay practice time is well spent.



    You’ve now read everything there is to say about this book.     You’ve reached the point of decision. Will you ignore a problem you know exists? Or, will you take action to learn the skills you need to write successful bar exam essays?



    If you are ready to write great bar exam essays, scroll up and buy your copy now.
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    How to Write Bar Exam Essays is s short book designed to give bar exam students the basic foundation they will need to write well-organized and effective essay responses on the bar exam.

    The book is also     useful as a "refresher" for students who want to review essay writing methods.

    Even     law students can use the same structure set out in this book to assist with writing essay responses to law school exams.

    Table of Contents from How to Write Bar Exam Essays 
    Introduction
    Mindset for Essay Studying
       Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
       Baby Mind
       Failure in Baby Steps
       Learning
       Conclusion
    First Things First
       Parts of an essay question
       Model essay answers
       Conclusion
    Four Pillars of Bar Exam Essay Writing
       Pillar 1: Technical requirements: timing, length, value
       Pillar 2: Issue spotting
       Pillar 3: Outlining and Formatting
       Pillar 4: Analysis
       Conclusion
    Pillar No. 1: Technical Requirements
    Pillar No. 2: Issue Spotting
       Studying Reveals the Issues
       Practice reveals the issues
       Call of the question reveals the issues
       Conclusion
    Pillar No. 3: Outlining and Formatting
       Outlining
       Formatting
       Conclusion
    Pillar No. 4: Analysis
       IRAC
          Issue
          Rule
          Application/Analysis
          Conclusion
       Conclusion
    How to Practice
       Weeks 1-3
       Weeks 4-6
       Weeks 7-8
       Weeks 9-10
       Essay Practice Checklist
    Additional Essay Tips
       Canned responses
       Double-check essay facts
       How to target your weak subjects
       Practice under exam-like conditions
    Suggested Approach for Bar Exam Essay Day
       Example
       Conclusion
    Conclusion

    About the Author

    Matt Racine graduated first in his law school class and is now anattorney and bar exam coach who has helped thousands of students passthe bar exam since 2009. He has written several books to help lawstudents succeed at law school and on the bar exam. Among his mostpopular titles are Bar Exam Mind: A Strategy Guide for an Anxiety-FreeBar Exam, How to Write Bar Exam Essays, and The 1L Success Guide. His main blog is called "Bar Exam Mind."

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    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00P4JHRTE
    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BarExamMind.com (October 31, 2014)
    • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2014
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • File size ‏ : ‎ 1083 KB
    • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
    • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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    • Print length ‏ : ‎ 118 pages
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    Marie P.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Supplement to bar study you need
    Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
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    Licensed in another state for many years during that time I took a writing course and prevailed on most motions I filed and felt this would be the easy part of the bar exam. It had been over 30 years since I took the bar exam when I moved to another state. I got a late start on enrolling for the bar exam and realized it had been a long time since I visited some of the subjects tested. I simply tried to do what my review course told me rather than looking at what was different about me taking the exam. I failed by a few points and it hit me very hard. Near the end of the course I realized I was not even close on the essay exam responses because they wanted something different than what I wanted to give them. This book explains in a very straight forward manner how to determine how you should handle your questions and how you should practice your questions and then you can use the old bar exams and your bar review course to focus in on where you need practice. I highly recommend this book. Marie P.
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    Shannon
    4.0 out of 5 stars Solid essay advice. Short read that's worth the time and money.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018
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    This book gives you a solid outline for how to attack a bar essay. I will definitely be using the information in it to improve my essays for the CA bar exam.
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    ND
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful techniques
    Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2018
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    Love this book. Gets straight to the point. The book is very small but everything that's in it will help you towards better essay writing. This is NOT to say that the techniques Mr. Racine teaches will definitely work for you, or that you'll magically become an expert after reading this book. PRACTICE MAKES IT PERFECT. But if you want some valuable tricks and tactics, do read it. It's very cheap on Kindle and you can finish reading it in 1hr the most. It's money and time well spent.
    4 people found this helpful
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    Grady W.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Just 86 pages of triple spaced type of how to use the IRAC method for essays.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2019
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    I bought this b/c it was cheap, while I was purchasing other materials to use studying for the Georgia Bar. I read this in about an hour, or less. It just tells you about the IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion) method of essay writing. If want more information on that, just Google it and find some free articles or blog posts. Really, do not purchase this "book".
    11 people found this helpful
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    Kim Flowers
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2022
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    This book is extremely informative considering the limited number of pages and paragraphs per page. It gives an easy step by step to follow in preparing for the bar exam. I highly suggest it if you are a first timer or a repeater.
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    Mercedes
    3.0 out of 5 stars If you are like me and just failed the CA Bar Exam you're ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015
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    If you are like me and just failed the CA Bar Exam you're probably looking for something to help you write for the CA Bar exam. This book is not it. It has a couple of helpful hints but it doesn't go into depth on how to write for the exam.
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    Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Super helpful!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2020
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    I’m now only moderately freaking out. Love the mindset discussion. I know I can do this! Thanks for the reminder. The tips were great. I feel like I have a plan now which is half the battle.
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    Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book. I read it pretty fast
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018
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    Good book. I read it pretty fast. Didn’t get to a solid strategy until the end tho. Still a good to read.
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