A candid, no-BS look at bar exam preparation
If you read anything here, read at least ONE of these.
I was interviewed in an episode of the Bar Study Motivation Podcast.
Give it a listen as you wind down for the day. I think you’ll find at least one good nugget you can use for your bar preparation. Some convenient timestamps:
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Remember our discussion a few weeks ago about the one non-negotiable study strategy?
Welp, everybody pack up and go home because that practice-and-feedback framework is probably the closest to a “secret” to studying there is (there isn’t one).
It’s a nicely boiled-down pearl of a learning approach, after draining and dusting off all the tips and tricks and various tactics that get stuck around it like barnacles. Of course bar takers get lost when there are so many different ways to go about preparing.
But I also love it because it identifies those who are perpetually looking to be “ready”—
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Oh, it’s you again.
Last week, we discussed 5 counterintuitive truths about the MBE over email (not published on the blog—sign up for my emails to get the link).
At the end, I gave you a pop quiz with some essay excerpts and had you guess which one did better. I got back varying answers:
Before I reveal the winner, can I just say how this shows how subjective essay grading is?
Graders are people. They have biases like we do. They get tired. They’re not consistent. (Yeah, they’re actually not reptilian robots 😲)
The winner is…