From Zero Motivation to Passing the California Bar Exam (Those Who Wander ARE Lost)
Max didn’t do well in law school.
💬 “I graduated in 2020 near the bottom of my class. I rarely applied myself in law school, and when I did I still didn’t do that well. I don’t think I ever got an A on a midterm or a final, and l was even able to get test accommodations halfway through law school (more time on tests). I didn’t take the bar when I graduated because I was uninterested and didn’t I wouldn’t be able to pass.”
💬 “I made some questionable choices during law school that I would be happy to tell you about during my success story interview one day (hopefully lol).”
He had ZERO motivation to take the bar exam. Who else relates??
💬 “In 2020 I technically took the October bar, but I did 0 studying, I had 0 interest. I took the Tennessee UBE because I was trying to find an easier path and they had a high pass rate. However, writing like 1-2 pages per essay with bullet points and then just clicking random on half the multiple choice because I just gave up on it. So I don’t really count that experience as an ‘attempt.’”
💬 “Then I signed up for July 2022 Bar CA bar but, once again I didn’t study, and I withdrew a month or two before the exam.”
Then Max passed the February 2025 CA Bar Exam on his first try in years (without score adjustments or remedies).
💬 “THANK YOU. I can’t believe I passed. It just seemed like the perfect storm this year I am so grateful to you and your magic sheets!”
> casually drops by after years of stagnation > snipes a pass > refuses to elaborate
I will elaborate.
It’s not about how much information or resources you’ve consumed. At some point, more information turns into noise and analysis paralysis.
You don’t need to be motivated. You don’t need to be confident. You don’t need to be perfect.
You just have to be competent enough. This may not be easy, but it’s not complicated either.
You can do it without needing to be a legal rockstar. The bar exam is a different skill from law school. Your straight As won’t guarantee success. Your straight Cs won’t guarantee failure.
Even your life circumstances don’t have to get in your way.
💬 “This year I was unemployed for a time, got in some legal trouble in March for being naive and reckless.”
💬 “I make like 3-400/week but haven’t worked since early December because slow during holidays, my next paycheck will be on the 16th and should be plenty enough to cover magic sheets and appro sheets. It’s the second to last tool I need to feel like I have everything I need. I spent every penny I had registering for the bar $1250. And sold some stuff to pay for adapitbar and borrowed little money from mom. I really really don’t want to have to ask her for anything again.”
If times are tough, start from step zero. If you’re not a genius, use your grit. If you’re lost, explore my website.
Ignore the noise and the flashy and shiny tactics. The scents of success left behind by these quiet passers will be your key to victory. You have the tools if you’re reading these words.
And when you pass the bar, be sure to tell me the legend of you. Sharing your secrets is the mark of true success.
💬 “The corny quote is true, it’s not about how many times you get knocked down, it’s… you know. Look at the big picture, your life story and the character development is going to be SICK, just if you told yourself you really want this don’t give up!”
Resources Max used to pass the California Bar Exam
💬 “The emails were, in retrospect, helpful beyond the substantive part of them just the consistency and the feeling understood by someone who understands it more than I do aspect. I graduated 5 years ago, so my bar prep process was me and me alone.”
That’s it. It’s very simple.
I’m excited to share Max’s story because it’s how I want you to get it done efficiently and effectively.
Many won’t do it, but I have to keep trying to hammer the idea into you so I have content for next year.
1) Sharpen your axe (your study plan)
A famous quote: “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
In other words, don’t wing it. Know what you’re doing. Learn skills that enhance your effort. Do what brings you the most results. Work smarter and efficiently rather than harder.
💬 “The quality of your study plan is your axe, and the axe that is most efficient for one person might not be the most efficient for the next person, there’s a lot of different variables from person to person and axe to axe. My unsolicited advice is that finding the ‘right’ plan for YOU is equally as valuable as the hours that you put into the actual studying. It’s quality AND quantity, but don’t chop your tree with a dull axe.”
It doesn’t matter how others choose to spend their time.
Say it with me: “I don’t give a DAMN if my classmate or some random guy on Reddit is spending 20 hours a day memorizing 800-page outlines.” (Enhance with a tier-3 swear word if you want)
Take back control of your studies. Let everyone else whine about Barbri lectures.
Are you crafting the handle of your axe so that it fits in your hands, balancing the weight of the handle and the blade the way you can handle it, and sharpening it enough to do what you need to do? Dull blades cause the most injuries.
💬 “I can’t emphasize enough how having the most efficient study plan was crucial for my success.”
2) Strategically study the right things
Look, Max and I are lazy. I don’t think he’ll be offended by this characterization.
💬 “And honestly, I know I didn’t study as consistently or as hard as a lot of people that took this exam, but I passed. I barely spent any time trying to memorize anything and maybe listened to a couple hours of lectures on total and that’s because I was working or at the gym. I studied the right stuff and I was efficient and strategic.”
If you’re upset that he didn’t “work hard,” it’s time to wonder why. What you’re really upset about is that you’re the one wasting time.
Knowing the rules of the game is part of sharpening your axe. Lazy doesn’t necessarily mean not smart or not strategic.
What’s not smart is to fall prey to the illusion of action. Ambitious people are more susceptible to this. We want results!
Yes, you definitely want a bias for doing instead of thinking about doing. But consider if you’re doing too much:
Let that turkey cook instead of letting out heat because you keep checking the oven
A Bumble date and I amused ourselves over drinks and one of her matches sending her like eight screens of messages (I didn’t tell her about my long ass bar prep newsletters)
Take your foot OFF the pedals if you don’t want to drive yourself into a slippery doom. From the book Radical Acceptance:
Posted on my Instagram story for my crush to see because I needed to chill tf out if I wanted to escape my situationship with her (I failed)
I understand these temptations. In fact, the last time I got offended was when my dad told me I give up too easily, contrary to my self-image. You feel like you have to DO SOMETHING!
So you stare at ALL the lectures, read ALL the outlines, do ALL the assignments, and survive off 15 pumps of caramel in your extra-large “latte” in a sleep-optional fervor. Cocaine seems safer.
But there are ways to take control of your studies without squeezing the sponge so hard that water escapes your grasp.
Relax. Set it and forget it. Let it cook instead of trying too hard.
For instance, Max used the Tripod Approach for the California Bar Exam.
💬 “I specifically credit the Tripod Approach. I can’t help but look for a good short cut. This one made so much sense to me, and really helped me track and quantify my improvement.
The multiple choice + performance test + professional responsibility essay = 71% of the exam.
I spent the majority of my time honing in on those 3 things.”
If you hear about this idea elsewhere, know that I was the first to publish it. I’ve also written a few other case studies of passers who have applied it.
(I decided to stop being humble at least on my own blog while the caffeine lasts.)
If you’re taking the UBE, what’s your “tripod”? It’s mostly similar:
The MBE is still 50% of your score.
MBE subjects covered by at least a few essays.
MPT questions still don’t require memorizing and are skill-based, like riding a bike.
What else is likely to happen on the UBE?
The MBE must have certain numbers of questions in certain topics. What are the highly tested topics?
Secured Transactions may be confusing, but it has a limited number of big issues to know. I studied this shit so you could have a nice outline for it (full sample here).
You’ll struggle with certain subjects. Put more attention there.
These are the things you should prioritize instead of gambling on predictions. If I catch you paying for predictions, I will block you permanently.
Don’t fight the rules of the game. Notice the edge, and exploit it.
3) Study the way it makes sense to you
Max didn’t just 80/20 the big portions of the exam. He also prepared the way that helped him learn.
For example, retyping the model essay answers helped Max learn the structure of essays and what ideal answers looked like.
💬 “A buddy of mine told me basically that he passed the exam by re-typing, word for word, every single model answer, and then just doing adaptibar. . . . I knew the quantity approach wouldn’t work for me so I had to learn how to make those 6 pages as quality as possible. So I did start out with his method. Just retyping essays.”
💬 “I would retype the essays word for word, so I could just burn into my brain what the structure and form of the ideal answer was. Then for every rule I would come across I would just reference the magic sheets.”
I did the same by copying model answers for performance tests on my second prep attempt. I thought I had PTs down, but I got hard ones on my first attempt and didn‘t score so well. So it was back to the drawing board.
It’s what I suggest to those who are lost and looking for step zero. (Essentially the Fck the Bar approach.)
Knowing what winning looks like is also part of knowing the rules of the game. This is why you’re reading case studies about passers, right?
4) Slow your errors over time
You already know you should concentrate your efforts on testing what you (think you) know.
Or do you? I don’t know anymore with you people.
💬 “All I do is drill essays and practice questions, I ‘cook’ as you call it all my wrong answers, and all my right answers too really, and by doing that and referencing back and forth to your magic sheets I am surprised with how fast I’m learning to issue spot and apply.”
Since “AI” is so hot right now, let me give you a little lesson about it as a patent attorney and connect it to bar prep (as always).
People talk about quality over quantity after I started posting about it years ago. (No humility in this post, remember? Deal with it.) Here’s what that could look like in practice:
💬 “Adaptibar + MBE strategies and tactics. 25-50 questions a day. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but I made sure I understood every word in the question. Why was this answer right? why were these 3 answers wrong? How could I change the fact pattern to make these other answers to be correct?”
Attempting the question is just the beginning of practice. If you stop there, you might as well have sat around counting the number of bumps in your popcorn ceiling.
You make the connections only when you review the reference answer and the principle. Max patched up the holes efficiently:
💬 “Brian also has these Magic Sheets which are just extremely refined study guides. Every time I issue spotted a model essay or analyzed a MCQ I got wrong I would read the concise rule and move on.”
Compare with how other people do it:
Absorb videos and outlines until they “know” the information.
Try to keep up with a pre-fixed study schedule that doesn’t even make sense to them.
Panic when they realize that mere familiarity doesn’t mean they can answer questions correctly. Abandon ship and hope for the best.
What a waste of time, money, and energy. Those who wander in bar prep ARE lost.
But I’m not here to convince you. I’m only here to share what worked for Max. Experimenting is how you find what’s right for you.
💬 “I passed without a big bar prep course. They didn’t work for me for the LSAT and the structure didn’t make sense for me for the bar.”
If you want the same, focus on sharpening your axe and your ability to answer questions correctly over time.
That means knowing what good answers look like. They’re right there. You can literally just copy and learn from them. You don’t always have to “earn” your knowledge by doing it the hard way. But you do have to get through your fear. Your job is to make connections in your head by playing with past exam questions.
That’s HOW you become motivated and confident! Don’t wait until you’re motivated and confident.
💬 “The cycle of studying, like starting a new subject, sucking horribly at it, pushing myself through mbe questions and making sure I understand all the explanations and analysis, and slowly slowly improving until the big picture starts to form has given me a little more confidence with each subject. It’s still hard to start the new one, feeling like I know nothing again (haven’t sat in a law school class in almost 5 years), but by the end of the 2nd day and by the 3rd it just starts clicking and I can move on to a new subject.”
I’m just going to candidly ask you this. I was contemplating over the last week asking because I felt like it would require some grand explanation of my situation. I started with con law and evidence for my CA bar prep. I’ve did some wills trusts and CP as a warm during December. I feel good about my progress, which I am pleased to say because a couple weeks ago I was questioning if I was underestimating the difficulty of studying. I graduated in 2020 from USD. Life has taken me on quite the adventure of just trying things and getting experience and failing and learning and making mistakes and learning over the past 5 years. I made some questionable choices during law school that I would be happy to tell you about during my success story interview one day (hopefully lol). I also questioned if I was doing this for myself or to appease my Korean mother and grandmother (I’m half Korean half white). From the few emails I’ve read from you it sounds like you have Asian parents too so you probably understand that whole thing. Anyways. This year I was unemployed for a time, got in some legal trouble in March for being naive and reckless (possession of small amount of stuff I wasn’t supposed to have in a state I should have known better than to have it) I’m dealing with that but should be a dismissal it was just an unlucky thing, but I chose to take it as I’ll just say a sign from God to start taking my life more seriously and fix my habits and get back on the right path. I’ve done a pretty good job of that.
I moved back in with my parents and still somewhat paycheck to paycheck, working part time at my buddy’s print shop in Temecula. I make like 3-400/week but haven’t worked since early December because slow during holidays, my next paycheck will be on the 16th and should be plenty enough to cover magic sheets and appro sheets. It’s the second to last tool I need to feel like I have everything I need. I spent every penny I had registering for the bar $1250. And sold some stuff to pay for adapitbar and borrowed little money from mom. I really really don’t want to have to ask her for anything again. I also am trying not to borrow money from anyone. I am asking if you would be willing to take a promise to pay from me to pay you on the 17th at latest for magic sheets + appro sheets bundle. I’ve taken your advice, and @swaggyesq on YouTube and I’m very confident in my study plan. All I do is drill essays and practice questions, I “cook” as you call it all my wrong answers, and all my right answers too really, and by doing that and referencing back and forth to your magic sheets I am surprised with how fast I’m learning to issue spot and apply. I just need to memorize the rules a bit more but I’m not too worried about that as it’s coming naturally the more I do it and my focus is on improving my issue spotting and multiple choice scores. I’ve done con law and evidence so far, on adaptibar I’ve gone from starting at around 40% to average in the low 60s. I have limited distractions between now and the test and I’m just extremely motivated to prove to myself that I can do this. I want to prove it to myself and if I do that will set a good example for others too.
I totally understand if as a matter of just general policy you can’t take a promise to pay and give me access to the sheets, but I appreciate you taking the time to read this and for any consideration you’re able to give it. And honestly I think I would be a really sick success story for you come May if I pass this thing and I promise will find ways to make it up to you in the future by promoting MTYLT.
Thanks Brian,
Max
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Jan 15, 2025
I want to thank express my thanks for your extending flexibility to me. Your performance upon my offer of a unilateral contract to send me valuable study materials to a stranger on the 4th of Jan binding me to render payment to you by no later than the 17th of Jan was generous and goes to show that you put your faith in people despite your generosity having been taken advantage of in the past. This is a trait I resonate with and again, I deeply appreciate your gesture. Not only was it a unilateral contract, it was only supported on my end by consideration of a promise to pay. In the realm of all possibility sure a local civil war could have sprung up in Temecula in which I would have been required to take up arms and defend my parents track home, making me unable to perform my duties at the print shop rendering me unable to collect any check in which my consideration to you was dependent on. But I’m happy to share that Temecula is safe. I am just about moved on from contracts/remedies to torts/remedies. I sort of combined the subjects in my study plan for the week.
Anyways. Thank you Brian. The cycle of studying, like starting a new subject, sucking horribly at it, pushing myself through mbe questions and making sure I understand all the explanations and analysis, and slowly slowly improving until the big picture starts to form has given me a little more confidence with each subject. It’s still hard to start the new one, feeling like I know nothing again (haven’t sat in a law school class in almost 5 years), but by the end of the 2nd day and by the 3rd it just starts clicking and I can move on to a new subject.
Your emphasis on “stop listening and reading and memorizing and just do it and fail and understand why you failed, and then do it again” is eliminating a lot of the stress I was dealing with staring at outline and trying to memorize things without context. The more you just do it, and “cook” the more the association builds and then the memorization just follows.
So (failing x understanding why you failed) + repetition = association & memorization
I can dig it.
Also trying to make this fun. Adaptibar is fun when you look at it like a game. It’s satisfying to see the green. It’s motivating to see the red. This whole process is me wagering on myself, and every small step of progress is another .1% edge I’m getting against the house.
Appreciate your emails, and the articles and just all the resources you provide.
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Feb 14, 2025
Hey Brian,
Studying is going well, I’m not feeling too burnt out at this point just really motivated and focused. These last 10 days I am just trying to gauge things and see where to allocate most of my time. I really appreciated the success story of the guy that decided to focus his strength on the MBE, and then go all in on tri-pod. I don’t feel my MBE is quite strong enough, to go completely all in but somewhere in between what he did and getting my essays better between now and test day.
I’d say I’m averaging about 65-70% across the board on MBE between adaptibar and the strategies and tactics book. On one hand I’m surprising myself with how quickly I picked up real property & civ pro after not applying myself at all in those classes in law school 5 years ago, and on the other hand struggling to get consistent with contracts and con law which were two of the few classes I did reasonably apply myself in. This past week I’ve generally been in the 70%+ range, the questions and recognition of familiar patterns are becoming more apparent (I think that’s a good thing? Seeing questions a second time has helped cement some concepts). I did the 25 questions the ca bar released and got 15/25 60% so that was a little reality check I guess. They appeared to be quite a few really familiar hypotheticals with different calls so that messed with my brain a little. But I feel confident I will be able to score at least 65-70 on the bar.
The PT, after watching the bar MD “gory detail” video you mentioned in the toolbox I’m feeling much better and my practice PT’s are starting to click and flow. That should hopefully be a 65-70, I plan to get 4/5 more practice pt’s in before test.
That leaves the essays. I am not a fast typer. If I try to type fast the typos are too much. I know that to score strong I am going to have to be very concise and get the points. The PT a little easier because I can copy paste and just with the extra 30 and the structure and not needing to know law it’s just different. I’m prioritizing PR essay. The ESL student from Feb 2024 that got a 70 on his PR essay and failed, I was like wow 70 on an essay and not pass, hopefully that isn’t me. What amazed me the most was his 70 PR essay was less than 900 words. And the model answers were both just about double that. He just nailed it. How was that possible? It’s not particularly well organized, it’s just super concise and seems to hit the points the graders were looking for. The model answers seem to have their fair amount of fluff. Do you know what the model answers typically score? I’m curious.
Where I struggle most with my essays is recalling the wording of the rules, the memorization. Multiple choice is different the answer is in front of you and the language is all legal and tidy. I definitely need to sharpen up on rule statements before exam. Where would you advise I allocate my efforts most this last 10 days? I’m hesitant to spend too much time staring at the sheets and memorizing them like the success story you sent today, but also my practice essays are coming out like 800 words and I’m sitting and thinking a lot although I am spotting most of the issues, but missing some elements when it comes to defining them (like 1/3 or 2/4 on the elements of a rule).
But yeah all this to say I feel good, I just dialing dialing in. I love doing practice questions I love seeing the green on adaptibar, red just makes me go even harder lol. All I need to do a baaarely pass, and I think I can do it.
Max
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Correction, the 885 word one was not the ESL student, that was community property. What made this essay so special to the grader for no rule headings and low word count to hit a 70?
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Feb 15, 2025
Thank Brian,
And yes on the sample MCQs they gave they had a slightly different feel, but really not too much. It was like they borrowed from really familiar fact patterns but threw an unexpected question call at the end. Small sample so hard to really discern but I don’t think it was tooo different. Maybe I was second guessing myself a little more than usual. I’ll check out that Reddit thread that sounds like a helpful tool. Other than that yeah I think just cooking is going to get me more comfortable.
Appreciate the feedback thank you.
Text version, after the exam
Feb 27, 2025
Thanks Brian for all the feedback and your emails
I just really feel lucky I stumbled on to your program and just your whole everything. The emails were, in retrospect, helpful beyond the substantive part of them just the consistency and the feeling understood by someone who understands it more than I do aspect. I graduated 5 years ago, so my bar prep process was me and me alone. For one I didn’t really want to tell anyone I was doing this friends or family because it’s just annoying when your relationship with a person becomes them asking you how things are going… they’re always “going”!
I was more worried about the open response than the multiple choice, but the multiple choice ended up being more stressful. The questions were just written differently and it was tough at times to ignore the voice in my head that was saying “this is bullshit” and just do my best on each question. The adaptibar and strategies and tactics book, comprised of old questions, the answer choices had a certain way to them that was different then the test, they didn’t try to trick you as much as the test did. I felt like the answer choices in the practice questions I did varied more than the ones on the test, they really tested nuances and used tricky language in the answer options. I feel good about the PT and one of the essays you recommended focusing on, I can’t say anything about the subjects because of rules, but the other 4 essays I’d say 2 felt good 2 felt like oh crap. No idea on the multiple choice. I hope 60-70%. If I don’t pass then I’m 100% taking July.
Thanks again for all your help. The magic sheets were tremendously helpful.
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Feb 28, 2025
And yeah I think if they would have just given more MCQs and earlier wouldn’t have been as big of a deal, but I hate that type of MCQ, it reminded me of exams in law school where the answer choices were so similar to each other they really tested on some nuanced aspects that I didn’t see in practice questions but were little bullets in the magic sheets.
Hope they add points across board or lower passing score
Text version, after passing the exam
May 5, 2025
THANK YOU. I can’t believe I passed. It just seemed like the perfect storm this year I am so grateful to you and your magic sheets! I will write the success story u told you I was hoping I would be making if you gave me early access to the sheets! Lol
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May 16, 2025
Congratulations to everyone who took the exam, everyone who passed, and everyone who didn’t get the result they wanted but aren’t going to let that stop them. I’m sorry if you experienced issues and you didn’t pass and are having a tough time accepting things. You’ll be stronger from it if you pick yourself up and set your sights on the next one. The corny quote is true, it’s not about how many times you get knocked down, it’s… you know. Look at the big picture, your life story and the character development is going to be SICK, just if you told yourself you really want this don’t give up!
I graduated in 2020 near the bottom of my class. I rarely applied myself in law school, and when I did I still didn’t do that well. I don’t think I ever got an A on a midterm or a final, and l was even able to get test accommodations halfway through law school (more time on tests). I didn’t take the bar when I graduated because I was uninterested and didn’t I wouldn’t be able to pass. I regretted the accommodations because it was just a crutch that I wouldn’t have on the bar exam (if you don’t know, getting “accommodated” on the bar exam is 10x harder than getting it for school, and cost prohibitive for most people). Well, 5 years later I decided it was time to do the hard thing and slay this beast.
Abraham Lincoln said: “If you give me 6 hours to chop down a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.”
The quality of your study plan is your axe, and the axe that is most efficient for one person might not be the most efficient for the next person, there’s a lot of different variables from person to person and axe to axe. My unsolicited advice is that finding the “right” plan for YOU is equally as valuable as the hours that you put into the actual studying. It’s quality AND quantity, but don’t chop your tree with a dull axe.
Brian Hahn from Make This Your Last Time had the right materials and right approach for me. And honestly, I know I didn’t study as consistently or as hard as a lot of people that took this exam, but I passed. I barely spent any time trying to memorize anything and maybe listened to a couple hours of lectures on total and that’s because I was working or at the gym. I studied the right stuff and I was efficient and strategic.
I specifically credit the Tripod Approach. I can’t help but look for a good short cut. This one made so much sense to me, and really helped me track and quantify my improvement.
The multiple choice + performance test + professional responsibility essay = 71% of the exam.
I spent the majority of my time honing in on those 3 things. The Tripod approach really helped form the structure of my strategy. Brian also has these “Magic Sheets” which are just extremely refined study guides. Every time I issue spotted a model essay or analyzed a MCQ I got wrong I would read the concise rule and move on. I passed without a big bar prep course. They didn’t work for me for the LSAT and the structure didn’t make sense for me for the bar.
– Magic Sheets + Appro Sheets $197
– Adaptibar $350 (with discount code)
– Emmanuel’s Bar Strategies & Tactics $80
– Past Exams FREE
I spent a total of $627
If you’re getting ready to jump back into studying and feel like you need to change your approach, I highly encourage you to check out his website, this post is a great place to start. And if you just graduated law school and are getting ready to take the exam and any of this resonated with you, congratulations on graduating, and good luck on the bar exam.
So, in 2020 I technically took the October bar, but I did 0 studying, I had 0 interest. I took the Tennessee UBE because I was trying to find an easier path and they had a high pass rate. However, writing like 1-2 pages per essay with bullet points and then just clicking random on half the multiple choice because I just gave up on it. So I don’t really count that experience as an “attempt.”
I had about the same GPA as you, I lost my partial scholarship after 1L year. Then I signed up for July 2022 Bar CA bar but, once again I didn’t study, and I withdrew a month or two before the exam.
A buddy of mine told me basically that he passed the exam by re-typing, word for word, every single model answer, and then just doing adaptibar. He said once he got to the essay part of the test he just regurgitated every single rule he could think of, and he is a really fast typer, so he had like 12 pages per essay. I on the other hand am not a fast typer, and I could only do like 6 pages at best. I knew the quantity approach wouldn’t work for me so I had to learn how to make those 6 pages as quality as possible. So I did start out with his method. Just retyping essays. This is where magic sheets started coming in. I would retype the essays word for word, so I could just burn into my brain what the structure and form of the ideal answer was. Then for every rule I would come across I would just reference the magic sheets. I did like 5 subjects this way and I was just going too slow and when I would try to issue spot an essay I would just freeze.
So no it’s January, and I come across your tripod approach. I abandoned the essays completely. I felt like the better I got at MBE, the better I got at the essays. Adaptibar + MBE strategies and tactics. 25-50 questions a day. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but I made sure I understood every word in the question. Why was this answer right? why were these 3 answers wrong? How could I change the fact pattern to make these other answers to be correct? I would find the rule in magic sheets, and if it didn’t make sense I would google or chat gpt it for some context.
I picked up the MPT in the last 4 weeks. I watched 3/4 BarMD MPT breakdowns a week, and just outlined them for practice before the video (like 20-30 minutes).
I worked in issue spotting essays for the last 2-3 weeks. 5 essays a day, just issue spotting, nothing else. Would take me a couple hours.
I didn’t write one full essay during my entire prep.
Oh, and the only like “memorizing” I did, was print out the PR magic sheets, and just literally carried it with me everywhere, I think I probably had it memorized.
Let me know if you want me to explain anything any further!
Thanks again! I’m so stoked it’s over lol. I’m planning to take a February UBE.
Max
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June 12, 2025
I’m stoked to be the subject of one and thank you again and again, I’m so grateful to be spending my time learning how to practice and not splitting my time with studying! 2 months into working full time for a plaintiff’s attorney.
There’s some context I left out as to my personal life that made passing even more rewarding for me, and I would love to share it once I am fully licensed. But I can’t emphasize enough how having the most efficient study plan was crucial for my success.
