Bar Exam Success Stories
If you want to pass the bar exam, study the passers. Build belief from seeing others win.
There’s no need to be discouraged. These are stories of transformation from REAL bar exam passers who have nothing to hide anymore.
Rather than give you platitudes, I want to show you indisputable proof that you can do it too. Get un-stuck and un-frustrated by the bar exam with these inspirational stories. Audit your limiting beliefs.
They were in the same position as you. Some were first timers or multiple repeaters. Some had jobs. Some had families. All of them decided to do what it took to MOVE ON with their lives.
Are you next?
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Jinnyi
Passed the 2020 February California Bar Exam (26.8% pass rate, the lowest on record)
- Attempts: California Bar Exam 2 times
- Weakness: Essays ("I did not even know how to START any essays")
- Unique challenge: Mental and emotional insecurities, panic, doubts. Drained by big bar course
“I honestly felt like Kaplan was making me dumber and I was just wasting my time. . . . I was able to find a more effective plan that ultimately DID indeed work for me.”
Sam
Passed the 2023 February California Bar Exam
- Attempts: California Bar Exam 2 times
- Weakness: MBE
- Unique challenge: UK lawyer reacquainting with the process of studying for an unfamiliar exam
“Statistically I shouldn’t have passed this exam (a repeater, taking the February exam, who didn’t attend a US law school), but I did. I did because I took control and did what worked for me.”
Juliana
Passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam while working full-time as a foreign attorney
- Attempts: California Bar Exam 1 time
- Weakness: No bar exam experience or even a concept of one
- Unique challenge: Foreign-trained attorney (Argentinian), balancing full-time work and study
“Seek advice on how to study but lastly decide based on your OWN needs and experience. Be prepared to incorporate new study techniques, but check in on yourself constantly to see what is working and what is not, and change whatever is not working, FAST.”
Laura
Passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam while working full-time as a senior lawyer