How Will I Feel After The Bar Exam? Most people walk into the bar exam hoping that they will feel “good” after the bar exam. They want to enjoy their post-bar exam vacations, or celebrations or time off. Or they just want to go back to work feeling confident they will not have to take the bar exam again.
Unfortunately, this is not how most people feel!
Many students define success in law school by grade point average or class ranking. However, one of the best ways to create opportunities for yourself is networking. Networking is not, in and of itself, likely to land you a prestigious job in a position straight out of law school that otherwise requires a high class rank. But, it is a way to increase opportunities for yourself both during and after law school. Read more
Almost every jurisdiction requires bar applicants to pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) as a prerequisite to becoming licensed to practice law. In this post, we explain what the exam is and why you have to take it!
The Multistate Performance Test (MPT) is a unique component of the bar exam. Unlike the MEE and MBE, it is a “closed universe” exam that does not require you to apply black letter law that you’ve committed to memory. Even so, the MPT is no cakewalk, and some exam takers find themselves facing an unfamiliar MPT question that throws them for a loop. Naturally, these students ask: Can I pass the bar exam if I miss an MPT question? The answer is an emphatic yes. In this post, we’ll explain why.
Congratulations on being done with the essay portion of the exam! If you are like most students, you may have struggled with some of the questions and timing. Just remember you do not have to write a perfect essay exam to pass! Here, we provide our recap of the February 2020 Michigan bar exam. Read more
JD Advising offers a suite of resources and products for first-time bar exam takers. Below are some of our most popular products and services. We also have several products and services for law students including a free five-star MPRE course and law school tutoring. Read more
In this post, we cover some very common first-time bar exam taker questions. Read further to see if we answer any questions you may have about the bar exam! We have explanations as well as short videos to answer several of these common first-time bar exam taker questions!
Preparing for the bar exam can be grueling and difficult. In this post, we provide some bar exam motivational tips to keep you going strong during your prep!
Below are answers to some common questions we get from first-year law students. Read more
To say that the bar exam requires a lot of memorizing is an understatement. Memorizing rules for the bar exam is different than studying for law school finals. While you had one week to study for two to four finals in law school, you now have three months to study for the bar. So you might be wondering, how am I going to memorize 17+ subjects (depending on your jurisdiction) in 3 months? In this post, we give practical steps to memorize black letter law.
Taking the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) in March? Looking for some guidance on how to approach studying? We recommend signing up for our free MPRE webinar taking place on March 6, 2020, at 2 p.m. EST. The webinar is scheduled to last 45 minutes.
It is imperative to read cases and properly prepare for class. Ideally, you would be able to read every word of every case closely and analytically. But sometimes you will not have time. Life, and other law school activities get in the way. And you will still want to effectively prepare for class (rather than not reading at all!).
In this guide, we discuss how to succeed in law school. We define “success” in law school primarily as academic success (i.e., getting high grades!). The reason we do this is that academic success is the most straightforward path to success in your career. It opens the most doors in terms of activities you can join (e.g., law review, moot court), clerkships and internships that are available to you, and employment in and after law school. It maximizes the opportunities at your disposal. If you want a big firm job right after law school, academic success is a must!
However, we also encourage being a well-rounded law student, including focusing on networking and making sure to stay physically and mentally healthy. All of these things are equally important and closely tied with succeeding in law school as well as professionally and personally.
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In this post, a guest bar exam taker explains what her South Carolina bar exam experience was like! Read further to see the details of her experience!
Many students struggle with balancing their study time between memorizing black letter law and working through practice questions. In fact, some students mistakenly believe that they will memorize black letter law most effectively by passively reading through highly-detailed outlines and doing hundreds or thousands of practice questions. The large commercial bar preparation companies do little to dispel this belief, with some going so far as to actively discourage students from spending time memorizing the law.