Pass the Bar Exam
If you want to pass the bar exam, study the passers who got it done and moved on with their lives. Build belief from seeing others win. Learn what worked for them.
Rather than give you platitudes about how “you’ve got this,” I want to show you indisputable PROOF that you can do it too, whether you’re a multiple-time repeater, a foreign-trained attorney, juggling full-time work, or a left-handed Capricorn.
Passed the 2020 February California Bar Exam (26.8% pass rate, the lowest on record)
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.
UK lawyer who passed the February 2023 California Bar Exam on his second try
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.
Argentinian attorney who passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam on her first try while working full time, ten years out of law school
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.
Passed the 2023 July California Bar Exam while working full-time as a senior lawyer
By the time the exam came around, I was very excited. I was so proud of myself for getting to a position where I could actually answer questions.
Passed the 2022 July New York Bar Exam with a score of 295 after completing 30% of Themis
Consistency over intensity.
I love myself and my life too much to have to do this again. One and done. For me, love was the greatest motivator. Love for myself.
Passed the 2024 February New York Bar Exam after a “seven year feeling of defeat”
Don’t be afraid to ditch or avoid altogether commercial bar prep courses if they don’t work for you, because it’s not you – it’s them.
Scored 307 on the New York UBE on her first New York attempt after one week of preparation
Don’t get caught up in the perfectionism of it all.
“Partner/Mom/Grandma/Kindergarten teacher” who passed the 2022 Oklahoma Bar Exam (UBE) with a score of 270
Your weekly emails reminded me how much I love learning and helped me reframe my past bar exam experiences.
Working mother who passed the July 2018 Georgia Bar Exam on her first try without a big-box prep course, despite her law school’s 30% pass rate
I don’t learn by watching lectures all day. I didn’t learn like that in law school, at any point in my life did I learn like that. So why would I do that for the most important test in my life?
Irish barrister who targeted his MBE weakness and passed the February 2015 Texas Bar Exam on his third attempt
A pass is a pass is a pass.