Taking the bar exam in about 4 weeks. Anyone on the board have any last minute advice or tips on how to pass this thing? I signed up with Barbri like most people so I've just been watching videos and trying to do as many practice MBE and Essay questions as possible. Figured that would help me prepare the best.
Kaplan MBE flash cards. Memorize every sentence on them and you'll smoke the MBE without even having to do many practice questions.
you have a set I can buy from you or know where I can pick them up locally in Houston? If not I guess I can just order them online and get them shipped next day.
I did nothing but flash cards (that I made) for the last two weeks. I made up a schedule and stuck to it religiously. The thing I was woefully unprepared for was Oil and Gas law. I had an Oil and Gas question and I threw in every Oil and Gas phrase I remembered...there is no way it was anywhere close to a right answer (luckily I still passed). Also, during your lunch breaks - get away from everyone else. Other testers will study at the breaks, but they will make you second guess everything you just did before the break. I went to my car at the breaks and ate and studied on my own. The day before the test - try not to study. Just take a break and relax because the next 3 days will be the most stressful days in your life.
My girlfriend is studying for the Bar right now too. Besides the basics that you've already mentioned (Barbri course, Kaplan flash cards, etc) from what I've seen her do it's like SpiffyRifi said; get a schedule and stick to it religiously. The biggest thing she has gone through is listening to her classmates and making her second guess what she's doing, so Spiffy is right on that account too. I think her and her friends' motto re: studying is; If you think now is a great time for the world to end, then you know your doing it right. Sounds like you have everything you need from the perspective of a layman. Wish I could help more. Good luck and prayers sent your way! Lol
Barbri is good...the materials are good. I left lectures early when I could tell they were just going to be regurgitations of the written materials. Treat it like a job if you can, assuming you aren't working right now. I was lucky enough to have a wife paying the bills, so I'd wake up when she did to go to work...and I'd study...and i'd eat lunch...and I'd study more....and then she'd get home and I'd put the books away for the most part.
true. I haven't been too distracted so far. Starting to hit the wall but I only have a few weeks to go so I need to step it up.
If you are taking an attorney test, hang out with folks taking the law school test. If you are taking the law school test, just shovel those horse shiats. No way around. Sticj w/ Barbri routine everyday. You are most likely to pass. Oh, start learning how to make up laws and fake analysis. I would take at least a few mock essays with topics that I absolutely knew nothing about and fake the law like all lawyer do.
