A candid, no-BS look at bar exam preparation
If you read anything here, read at least ONE of these.
A big complaint about essays: “Essays are so freaking subjective!”
Good, let’s use the subjectivity to your advantage. We’re going to take advantage of the impatience of a human who has thousands of shitty essays to read.
The only thing I remember from law school is my negotiations professor saying this in class randomly: “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
It’s so true. Is bar preparation worth doing? Then it’s worth doing right.
By now, you’re filled with determination to study and get this thing over with… but how? Where do you even begin?
You may be lost and not sure where to start heading from here. Like you just ran into a dead end in an unfamiliar part of town and your phone’s about to die (which is why I finally got a car charger after months of denial about how good my phone’s battery actually is).
We talked about how, whether or not you use a “big box” course, this is still a self-learning endeavor. We also talked about how you’re the dean of your own studies. You’re ultimately responsible for learning and internalizing the material as well as the skills to apply the material.
Continue reading “How to Craft Your Own Study Schedule with a “Macro-managed” Plan”
Here’s something that people who pass the bar never say:
“I listened to all those bar course lectures. They were so helpful!”
Sometimes we think “doing whatever it takes” to pass the bar means throwing thousands of dollars into a black hole.
Or following some unsustainable cookie-cutter schedule (which doesn’t care if you have other responsibilities like work or family). Good luck if you fall behind by one day.
Or letting a perfectly fine morning slip through by religiously sitting through 4 hours of droning lectures. Or worse, pausing lectures to fill in all the notes. Then not even remembering 99% of it.
I remember those days. Those are all things I didn’t do my second time. Here’s what I would do instead:
Continue reading “You’re the Dean of Your Own Bar Exam Studies”