by Matt | October 19, 2013 | bar exam tips, book review, MBE
If you are wondering whether you should buy a copy of Strategies & Tactics for the MBE, read this book review. For those of you who are impatient, the short answer is: Yes, you should buy it. I will start off this book review by saying that I wish, wish, wish...
by Matt | August 27, 2013 | bar exam tips, coaching
One of the most popular posts on this blog is about performing a Bar Exam Level Set. The idea behind a level set is to take stock of your resources and your goals to see what you need to do or obtain in order to achieve those goals. In the case of the bar exam, you...
by Matt | July 3, 2013 | bar exam tips, essay study tips
When responding to bar exam essays on test day, you need to make sure that you manage your time so that you can respond to each essay as completely as possible. In this post, I will outline a simple approach to ensure you achieve the maximum points possible on your...
by Matt | June 27, 2013 | bar exam tips, essay study tips
The basic steps in writing a good bar exam essay are: review and analyze the call of the question skim the fact pattern with call in mind read the call of question again and determine major topics slowly read through the fact pattern and create your essay outline...
by Matt | June 21, 2013 | bar exam tips, self-study
One of the best tools for bar exam preparation is free: Wikipedia. If you need to find out additional details of some bar prep topic, it can sometimes be difficult to find it in the materials provided to you by your bar review course. So, just hop over to Wikipedia...
by Matt | June 5, 2013 | bar exam tips, self-study, studying
I know a lot of people out there want some advice about how to study for and pass the bar exam while they are working. So, I got in touch with one of my friends who was working full-time as an attorney in one state while she was studying for the New York bar exam. She...
