- Bar Prep Wisdom from Succulents
- Canadian Lawyer Thought the UBE Was “10000x Harder.” She Still Scored a 331 on Her First Try.
- I spoke with Mary Basick & Tina Schindler at a UC Irvine bar prep panel. Here’s what they said.
- Common Traits of Bar Passers & Why Mental Fortitude Is Important for Bar Preparation
- She Failed the Oregon Bar Exam Twice. After Her Father Died, She Scored a 320 (from 250s).
- Your bar review course says you’re “on track,” but why does your score say otherwise?
- Should You Read the Call of the Question First on the MBE?
- MBE Tips and Tools (+ Best Supplements)
- From 40% on AdaptiBar to Passing the California Bar Exam (First Try)
- Stupid Simple IRAC
- How Waylon Finally Beat the Utah Bar Exam (UBE) After Years Away from Law
- Two Biggest Fears of a Bar Exam Taker
- “I was certain I was screwed.” Said the guy who scored a 300 on the UBE (with 3 perfect essays)
- You Need a Personalized Study Plan: How to Make Your Own Bar Prep Study Schedule
- Foreign Attorney Scores 302 on New York UBE Without a Bar Prep Course (First Try)
- Performance Tests: The Most Overlooked Way to Score on the Bar Exam
- How Adam Added 140 Points on the CA Bar Exam (But What Cost Him the Pass?)
- 4 Examples of California Bar Exam Score Reports (Feb 2026)
- Should You “Trust the Process”? You’re the Dean of Your Own Bar Exam Studies
- Bar Prep Is Overwhelming: How to Make Independent Choices for Yourself
- Passing the NY Bar After 4 Failures and a Forced Year Off
- Why You Feel Exhausted Studying for the Bar Exam
- Summary of Changes to the UBE: NextGen Bar Exam vs. Legacy UBE for 2026-2028
- Do I Really Need a $3,000 Bar Prep Course? Is Self-Study Enough to Pass the Bar Exam? What the Data Shows
- Early Bar Prep: Should You Study Early for the Bar Exam? (When and How)
- 5 Reframes to Power Up Your Mind and Emotions for the Bar Exam Right Now
- Tired of Bar Prep? Guarantee Motivation to Beat the Bar Exam with These 5 Reminders
- 40 Bar Prep Lessons for My 40th Birthday
- Scoring a 307 on the New York Bar Exam After 1 Week of Prep (Another Double Passer Alert with Doreen Benyamin)
- 6 Ways to Reclaim Your Time & Energy While Studying for the Bar Exam (Even If You’re Working Full Time)
- How a Foreign Attorney Passed New York (First Try) When MORE Practice Was Making Her Feel Worse
- The Uncomfortable Truth That Most Bar Exam Advice Ignores
- How Michelle Passed the California Bar Exam from Scratch (Years After Graduating)
- What Finally Helped a 64-Year-Old Retaker Pass the Minnesota UBE
- How an Australian Lawyer Passed the Illinois UBE (After Passing in California)
- Enjoying Bar Prep: 6 Ways to Make Studying for the Bar Exam More Fun and Effective (Visual Guide)
- Passing the CA Bar Exam (First Try) Without Completing a Bar Review Course
- Are you finally ready to listen yet? Here’s how to get unstuck in bar prep
- Holiday Motivation for Bar Exam: 3 Ways to Keep Going During Bar Prep
- 2025 Bar Prep in Review: Strategies That Will Work in 2026
- Predictions for the Bar Exam (What to Focus On for Efficient Study)
- Turkish Attorney Avoided Taking the CA Bar Exam for 8 Years. Then She Passed on Her First Attempt
- Passing the CA Bar Exam with 3 Weeks to Study, Working Full Time, 8 Months Pregnant (Gone Right)
- Scoring a 325 on the New York UBE as a 21-year-old Foreign Law Graduate
- Passing the Bar Exam with a Brain Aneurysm (No Excuses)
- Almost Failing Law School to Passing the CA Bar Exam in One Shot
- Passing the Kentucky Bar Exam (UBE) with AuDHD on Her Third Attempt
- UK Attorney Got a 316 on the NY UBE on Her First Try While Working Full Time
- Marilynn Winged Bar Prep and Failed. Then She Passed the Bar Exam Doing This
- Passing the CA Bar Exam in 3+ Tries: Don’t Define Your Progress by How Much You Torture Yourself
- Overcome Bar Exam Anxiety and Build Confidence Now
- Going from 246 to 309 on the Colorado Bar Exam (UBE)
- Most Bar Exam Takers Waste Time on Low-Yield Study Activities (Fix This Immediately)
- How to Create a Personalized Bar Exam Study Plan
- From Zero Motivation to Passing the California Bar Exam (Those Who Wander ARE Lost)
- How Amy Stayed Calm and Patient Through Bar Prep to Pass the Bar Exam
- From “Studying” 15+ Hours a Day (and Feeling Behind) to Actually Learning
- Singaporean Attorney Passes the CA Bar Exam (Starting from 40% AdaptiBar, 20 Years Out of Law School)
- How Richard Passed the UBE by Adding 28 Points to His Score (and Finding the Courage to Stray from The Plan)
- Lessons from Passing the UBE (Utah Bar Exam) with a 314
- What If You Failed the Bar Exam? Should You Retake a Bar Review Course?
- What does the email from the California State Bar mean (Feb 2025 scoring recommendation)?
- Manfred’s Classic Approach to Bar Prep (and Moving Past Plateaus)
- Repeating (and Passing) the Bar Exam by Choosing Resilience
- Pass the Bar by Being Aware of Your Strengths and Weaknesses
- Grandmother Passes the Uniform Bar Exam with a 270
- Passive Learning vs. Active Learning: DOING Is the Best Form of Thinking
- From Severe Anxiety to Trusting His Instincts to Pass the CA Bar Exam on His 1st Try
- Passing the New York Bar Exam After 20 Years (15 Attempts)
- Passive Learning = Anxiety
- I got a little sassy at a Redditor at 3:30 AM
- Pitfalls of Passive Learning in Bar Prep: What Will You Wish You Had Been Learning Today?
- Passing the DC Bar Exam (UBE) in Under 100 Hours of Bar Prep
- Should You Study for the Bar Exam or Take a Break During Holidays?
- Third-time Passer Reveals How to MASTER the Law
- Online Law School Graduate Passes CA Bar Exam on First Try (by Personalizing Prep)
- How a Full-time Working Father Passed the CA Bar Exam (by Streamlining Resources)
- Doing What “Works for You” in Bar Prep
- Cara Passes the California Bar Exam with Everything Riding on Her Third Attempt
- Passing the CA Bar Exam as an Older Candidate
- Passing the California Bar Exam 20 Years Out of Law School
- How to Study for the MPRE: What & When of Effective MPRE Prep
- What to Do After the Bar Exam to Live a Normal Life Again (21 Post-Bartum Ideas)
- Admire the Buttcrack (and 9 Other Last Minute Tips for the Bar Exam)
- Scoring 85% on AdaptiBar in the Last Two Weeks of Bar Prep
- Stop “Studying” and Start Learning: The Underrated Practice of Practice in Bar Prep
- Face Your Weaknesses to Pass the Bar Exam
- Failing the CA Bar Exam After “Following the Bar Prep Course to a T”
- Passing the DC Bar Exam on Second Try with a 269: “A Pass Is a Pass”
- Common Pitfalls of First-Time Bar Exam Takers
- Fundamental Strategies for Passing the UBE While Working Full Time
- 180+ Point Jump on the CA Bar Exam While Battling Health Issues
- Passing the Washington Bar Exam (UBE) by Enjoying the Process and Moving the Needle
- How to Get Motivation Studying for the Bar Exam
- Ditching Commercial Prep to Pass the NY Bar While Working Full Time
- Myths of Memorizing for the Bar Exam
- Non-Accredited Law Grad Passes CA Bar Exam on His 1st Try
- Passing the California Bar Exam with a “STEM Brain” on Her Second Try
- 24-year-old Foreign LLM Student Passes CA Bar Exam on Second Try
- Repeater Passes CA Bar Exam After She Ditched Barbri and Stopped “Trusting the Process”
- Turkish Attorney Passes California Bar Exam as a Retaker
- The Value of Redoing Practice Questions (You’ll See Them Again on the Bar Exam)
- Pass the Bar Exam Using the Right Tools and Approach for You
- Lessons Learned from Failing the Bar Exam (Live Workshop Replay)
- How a Busy Big Law Partner Passed the Bar Exam
- Redditor Goes from “Negative, Anxious, and Depressed” to Passing the Bar on 3rd Try
- How Abel Taught Himself to Pass the California Bar Exam
- Taking Ownership of Your Bar Prep to Pass the Bar Exam
- Dominating the Essays: Organize Issues and Prioritize Rules to Know on the Bar Exam
- Argentinian Attorney Passes CA Bar Exam from Scratch (10 Years Out of School)
- How an Australian Lawyer Got Excited to Take the CA Bar Exam While Working Full Time (and Passed)
- Salma Passes the NY Bar Exam on First Try as a Foreign Attorney
- How Mercedes Passed the Colorado Bar Exam (UBE) After Realizing a Simple Approach
- Minimum Competence Does Not Mean Bare Minimum
- When Do Bar Exam Results Come Out in Each State?
- Richard’s Minimalist Bar Prep Without Overwhelm
- How Corina “Broke the Rules” to Pass the Bar Exam Her Second Time
- LLM Passes California Bar Exam on Her FIRST Try by Being Strategically Independent
- UK Lawyer Passes CA Bar Exam on His Second Try (Finding Out Result in Maui)
- How a mother of two passed the California Bar Exam while working in biglaw (32.5% pass rate)
- The 3 Things You Need When Starting Bar Prep (Live Stream Replay)
- Struggling with the MBE? Don’t Gloss Over These Tips
- Using AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to Learn the Law for the Bar Exam
- How to Pass the California Bar Exam with a Focused Approach of Discipline and Consistency
- Constitutional Law Updates for 2023 and Beyond: What Are Kennedy and Dobbs and What to Do About Them?
- Classic Repeater Story of Passing the CA Bar Exam on Her Second Try
- Don’t obsess over the “best” bar exam supplement. Be the BEST STUDENT instead.
- How an Australian Lawyer Passed the California Bar Exam Despite the Sheer Overwhelm
- Why Bar Takers Can’t Remember What They Need To
- dreams of becoming an attorney
- This Formula Shows the Importance of Each 5-Point Increment on the California Bar Exam
- How Navi Passed the New York Bar Exam with a Score of 295 on Her First Try
- AdaptiBar vs. UWorld MBE QBank: Which one should you get?
- Ultimate Guide to Preparing for the California “Baby Bar” Exam (FYLSX)
- What to Do in the Final Month of Bar Prep (“I’ve fallen into the trap of relying on what Barbri tells me to do”)
- How They Passed the First Remote California Bar Exam: Keep Your Bar Prep SIMPLE!
- What to Do in the Weeks Leading up to the Bar Exam
- How to Study for the Bar Exam While Working Full Time
- How Doreen Passed One of the HARDEST California Bar Exams (33.9% Pass Rate)
- How to Study for the Bar Exam as a First Timer
- How do Magicsheets and Approsheets fit into your other bar exam study materials?
- What to Do for the July Bar Exam as a First Timer
- Planning a Bar Prep Study Schedule (Quick Overview)
- How Hard Is the Bar Exam? Why Is the Bar Exam So Hard?
- How To Start Studying EARLY For The Bar Exam
- Feeling Worried or Anxious Waiting for Bar Results?
- Should you forget about essays and just focus on the MBE (“auto-pass” with the MBE)?
- AdaptiBar Review: Is It Worth It (to Prep for the MBE in 2025)?
- What to Do in the Last Two Weeks of Bar Prep
- “I’m so unmotivated to study for the bar exam”
- Setting Up Clear Goals You Can Follow for the Bar Exam
- Which MBE Supplements Should You Get?
- MBE Frequency Charts of Highly Tested Topics (Biggest Areas to Focus On)
- Underutilized Strategies for Fixing a Poor MBE Score
- “I failed the bar exam. How can I possibly recover? What is left for me?”
- How to Overcome Failing the Bar Exam and Change Your Reality
- What’s the Best Way to Study for the Bar Exam WITH a Bar Prep Course?
- Write Essays as If You’re Preparing Your Essay Grader “Client”
- “What’s the BEST resource for preparing for the bar exam?”
- Good Essays Are the Easiest to Grade: How to Get the Big Points on Your Bar Exam Essays
- Not Passing Hurts MORE than Struggling Now! How Drew Used Pain to Efficiently Pass the CA Bar Exam (While Working Full Time)
- Easily Find Key Rules on the Performance Test
- 3 Strategies I Used as a Repeater to Study for the Bar Exam: Fight for Simplicity!
- How Stan Finally Passed the Bar Exam Using Proven Bar Preparation Strategies (Anyone Can Do This!)
- I Accidentally Convinced Someone to Never Take the Bar Exam Again
- Be a Producer, Not a Consumer
- My 5 Rules for Passing the MBE
- What do REAL bar takers think of the remote/online bar exam? And their advice on how to study for an online bar exam
- UWorld MBE QBank Review: Study with Visual Learning
- The Bar Exam Is Difficult, but the Approach Is Simple
- 8 Steps to Getting Better at the Bar Exam
- How to Handle Bar Prep Stress
- “We’re all in this together”?
- Bar Preparation Is Emotional Preparation: How to Turn Your Emotions into Something USEFUL
- How Do Grading and Scoring Work for the California Bar Exam?
- Remote/Online Bar Exam Logistics and Strategies
- Feeling Stuck and Burned Out with Bar Prep
- California Bar Exam passing score lowered to 1390 from 1440
- Easiest Bar Exam in 2026: Which State Bar Should You Take If You Just Want to Pass and Get It Over With?
- MBE Strategies: Q&A with Sean Silverman on How to Win the Game of MBE
- How should you really practice for the bar exam? “I keep practicing, but I’m not improving”
- How to Focus on Bar Studies While Stuck at Home in Quarantine
- Taking the Bar Exam Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive
- How to Get 20/20 FORESIGHT for the 2020 Bar Exam
- Getting on track if your bar exam is in September
- Should the bar exam be designed more like the real world?
- Bar Exam Success Rules that Buck Tradition: Keeping Yourself Mentally Sane During Bar Prep
- Should You Take the California Attorneys’ Exam or the General California Bar Exam?
- Giving what the essay graders want to see on the California Bar Exam: Q&A with BarEssays founder Gil Peles
- Coronavirus and Bar Exam Preparation (Do You Study Now or Later?)
- Passing the Bar Exam with the Tripod Approach (Just Triage These Areas)
- Quick and Simple Ways to Improve Your Bar Essays
- 3 Illusions You Might Be Trapped In When Preparing for the Bar Exam
- Preparing for the 2020 Bar Exam: Learn from Their Biggest Mistakes
- Tom goes from many-time repeater of the California Bar Exam to passing after changing the “how to” principles of bar preparation (while working full time)
- How a repeater with a 9% chance of passing crushed the California Bar Exam… while working full time
- This foreign attorney who struggled with essays passed the California Bar Exam with the lowest July pass rate (40%)
- Why Are Pass Rates Lower in February than in July? (Yours Doesn’t Have to Be)
- “Bar Exam Literacy”: How to Cure Uncertainty in Bar Preparation
- How Do You Even Know You’re Practicing Correctly for Bar Prep?
- Stop Trying to Pass the Bar Exam
- Regrets of Past Bar Exam Takers
- Memorizing for the Bar Exam: 5 Ways to Remember and Recite the Rules
- How to Craft Your Own Study Schedule with a “Macro-managed” Plan
- Preparing for the Bar Exam: What You Can Learn from Their Regrets
- How Samantha Passed the Georgia Bar Exam on Her First Attempt (Even Though Her Law School Had a 30% Pass Rate)
- How Joe passed the Uniform Bar Exam (Kansas UBE) by racking up more issues on essays
- 3 Things to Stop Telling Yourself Before the Bar Exam
- The Courage to Enjoy Your Mistakes Now
- Bar Study Motivation Podcast
- One Non-negotiable Study Strategy for the Bar Exam
- Passing Is Inevitable
- The Year of Extraordinary Results: 4 Ways to Pass the Bar This Year
- How Do I Get Motivated to Study?
- How to Systematically Identify All the Relevant Issues in a Bar Exam Essay Using “Issue Checking” (Stop “Issue Spotting”)
- Improve Your MBE Score: 3 Rules for Effective MBE Preparation
- The Barbri Regret: Is It Really Working for You?
- BarEssays Review: Practicing Essays Is Not Enough
- How Do You Become Confident in Your Bar Prep?
- Bar Exam Success Commandment 3: How to Exploit Scarcity (and Improve Your Bar Essays)
- Bar Exam Success Commandment 1: How to Gain a Superpower for the Bar Exam
- Changes to the California Bar Exam in 2017 July (Format, Grading, and How to Prep)
- Double Your Bar Essay Practice with Essay Cooking (Outlining)
- 4 Things to Remember for Performance Tests (You Won’t Believe #2!)
- Stuck on Where to Begin? 3 Myths to Discard and 3 Systems to Adopt to Improve Your Approach to Studying for the Bar Exam
- How to Be the Ultimate Sore Loser (to Pass the Bar Exam Next Time)
- Studying for the MBE, Whether to Delay the Bar to 2017, Working While Studying, and Scheduling with Tunnel Vision
- 3 Options If You Failed the Bar
- Answering the Call of Nature (Listening to Yourself When Studying for the Bar)
- Thinking about the next bar? When to study for the bar exam and how long
- What Should Your Final Preparation Look Like?
- “Be Arrogant”: Arrogance as a Bar Exam Mindset
- How to Gain 20/20 Foresight Studying for the Bar Exam
- The 20/10 Cycle: How I Hacked My Motivation to Study 12 Hours a Day
- I Messed Up
- Should You Get a Bar Tutor?
- What to Do If You Are Retaking the Bar
- How to Apply Rules with IRAC
- How Well Should You Be Doing to Feel Secure with Your Progress?
- Imagine Not Practicing Performance Tests
- 5 Things I Did Differently the Second Time to Pass the Bar as a Repeater
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