For your essays, you must have a one page
progression list for every subject your bar exam covers.
As you know, the pressure to perform well on the
essays can be sometimes overwhelming. Some students have told me that on game
day, when they open the exam booklet, they sometimes had a brain freeze and
nothing would come out of their minds until they calmed down and began the
writing process. Having a progression sheet of the major issues of each subject
will enable you to recall what you must write out in a certain essay.
For example, let’s take contracts. You know that,
regardless of the issue, if the essay is a contracts question, you start with
determining if it’s a UCC or common law question. Then you must talk formation:
offer, acceptance, consideration. Then you discuss defenses, i.e. statute of
frauds, incapacity, etc.
Go through these major issues in every topic. Write
out a one page outline or progression list and memorize them. Then, on essay
day, you can recall your progression list and start writing, knowing that you
will not forget any major issues.
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experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
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Along with your belief that you will pass and
remaining positive, you must stay motivated. Studying for the bar exam is
drudgery at its finest. Day-in and day-out, every day, minutes and hours pass
by as you struggle to learn, review and to practice. Sometimes you wonder why
you are putting yourself through this misery.
That is why you must stay motivated. What is your
incentive to continue studying and to pass the bar exam? You went through 4
years of colleges and the last 3 years going to law school to come to this
juncture in your life. Among a desire to do good for others and the love of the
law, you went to law school mainly to provide a good living for yourself and/or
for your family.
Don’t forget those reasons for why you went to law
school, for why you are studying for the bar exam and why you need to pass and
become the lawyer you have always wanted to be.
My advice is to not look at it from a longer time
perspective – as in, its 5 weeks to the bar exam. Take one day at a time,
following your study schedule and be satisfied with the gains you make from day
to day. Motivate yourself to get through the material today, not tomorrow. Be
happy about the progress you make today only. Then start afresh the next day.
You’ll worry about tomorrow, when it comes. Motivation comes in small bites
when you are studying for the bar exam.
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knows that taking the bar exam as a repeat taker can be an isolating
experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
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the MBE, contact the MBE Testing Institute at pass@mbetestinginstitute.com for
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There are 5 weeks until the February 2016 bar exam.
Every day you must chip away at the large amount of
material, taking manageable bites until you have mastered that bite and go onto
the next one. As someone has once said, how do you eat an elephant – with one
bite at a time. In other words, take smaller sections of the vast material,
learn it and then take another section of the bar exam and learn that section,
until, before you know it, you have learned the law, practiced your questions
and are ready to sit for the bar exam.
Always stay in the moment of that day, because if
you look too far ahead, you will waste precious time worrying about the large
amount of material you must learn or how fast the time is ticking before the
bar exam.
I tell my students that taking the bar exam is not a
sprint. You cannot do everything in one day. Do not drive yourself to
exhaustion thinking that you must skip meals, skip the gym, skip sleeping in
order to prepare yourself for the bar exam. You cannot run down your body or
your mind. Take regular breaks so that you can come back refreshed and ready to
learn.
Remember, it was the tortoise that won the race, and
not the hare. And to quote the tortoise, “slowly does it every time”.
Make this your best 5 weeks ever and know that you
have put everything on the table to become a lawyer.
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knows that taking the bar exam as a repeat taker can be an isolating
experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
If you need help passing
the MBE, contact the MBE Testing Institute at pass@mbetestinginstitute.com for
more information.
Solutions for Success!
I am of the firm belief that you must stay positive
as you prepare for the exam bar. I have dealt with many people who have failed
the bar exam, many who have taken it multiple times, and those students, who
think that this is only a small bump in the road and attack their exam with
confidence and positivity, will end up being successful on the bar exam. I have
counseled many students who don’t truly, absolutely think they will pass the
bar exam and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. A depressed attitude will
drag you down like nothing else will – even if you know the material.
I tell my students this story. I was working with a
student who did not particularly do well in law school – he was always on the
bubble. When I began working with him, I remember losing my patience with him
over how he wrote his essays. I told him his essays were junk and he needed to
change his whole approach to writing and studying or he would fail. He looked
at me and told me he was going to pass the exam but he knew he needed help to
do so. He took my criticism to heart and came to my office almost every day as
we worked towards his goal. He was coachable and he was positive. I used to
tell him that he took to studying the bar exam like a duck to water.
The night after the essay portion of the bar exam,
he sent me this wild email about how well he did on the essays and that he knew
he passed the exam (not just the essays, but the entire exam). He went into the
MBE with a positive outlook and with confidence and he ended up passing both
portions of the bar exam with scores that were higher than we ever thought
possible. When he came to my office, to celebrate, other professors were
shocked that he passed the bar exam. It was his positive outlook on the bar
exam that made him a lawyer.
You can either be someone who passes the bar exam or
someone who doesn’t. It’s your choice to make. Tell yourself every day that you
will pass the bar exam and believe it.
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The MBE Testing Institute
knows that taking the bar exam as a repeat taker can be an isolating
experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
If you need help passing
the MBE, contact the MBE Testing Institute at pass@mbetestinginstitute.com for
more information.
Solutions for Success!
Today is the last day for you to sign-up for your
tutorial for the February 2016 bar exam for the MBE, UBE, Florida, California
and the New York Bar Exams. Please go to our website and fill out the contact
sheet and we will help you pass the bar exam. We specialize in MBE tutorials.
Get help now and pass in February.
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now.
The MBE Testing Institute
knows that taking the bar exam as a repeat taker can be an isolating
experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
If you need help passing
the MBE, contact the MBE Testing Institute at pass@mbetestinginstitute.com for
more information.
Solutions for Success!
Many bar exam essays have specific issues in the
call of the question that sets out what the bar examiners want you to
answer. For example, in a torts
question, the bar examiners want to know what the causes of actions are for a)
Tom, b) Dick and c) Harry.
Each bar exam grader has a rubic that she follows
when she grades her batch of essays. The
rubic starts with a, then b, then c.
Don’t make the bar exam grader’s job harder when she has to hunt for the
answer because you started with Harry, then Tom, then Dick.
Your goal is to make it easy for the bar examiner to
grade your essay and for you to get the maximum point total as you can
get. If the bar examiner can’t find what
she is looking for because you have mixed up the order of the call of the
question, you may be cheating yourself out of hard-earned points because she
can’t find it.
Follow and answer the call of the question exactly
as written.
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The MBE Testing Institute
knows that taking the bar exam as a repeat taker can be an isolating
experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
If you need help passing
the MBE, contact the MBE Testing Institute at pass@mbetestinginstitute.com for
more information.
Solutions for Success!
February 2016 will be the last New York bar exam
ever given. Effective July 2016, New
York will administer the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE).
The New York section consists of five essay
questions and 50 multiple choice questions prepared by the New York Board, and
one Multistate Performance Test question, developed by the National Conference
of Bar Examiners. Students take the MBE on the following day.
The UBE consists of
the MBE Exam, two MPTs, and six 30 minute essays.
To those students – take the step to get an MBE
Testing Institute tutor so that you will pass in February and not have to face
the nightmare of having to alter your studies and take a whole new bar exam that
you are not familiar with.
We will be conducting UBE seminars in New York after
February 2016. Watch for our schedule.
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The MBE Testing Institute
knows that taking the bar exam as a repeat taker can be an isolating
experience. The MBE Testing Institute helps the student keep motivated and
confident through interaction with an MBE Testing Institute’s bar tutor.
If you need help passing
the MBE, contact the MBE Testing Institute at pass@mbetestinginstitute.com for
more information.
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