JD Advising Featured in Above the Law!
JD Advising Featured in Above the Law!
We were honored to be featured in the Above the Law article: Prep Like a Pro: How to Avoid the Bar Exam’s Greatest Pitfalls. Read more
Did you fail the bar exam? We have lots of free resources to help you regroup for your next attempt! Check out our guide on what to do if you failed the bar exam, as well as our guide on hiring a bar exam tutor! And be sure to register for our FREE Failed the Bar Exam Mastery Class (includes daily giveaways)!
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We were honored to be featured in the Above the Law article: Prep Like a Pro: How to Avoid the Bar Exam’s Greatest Pitfalls. Read more
We were thrilled to be named a top bar prep course by the National Jurist. The National Jurist compared several bar prep courses and listed ours here. Read more
In case you missed it, the bar exam is going to look a little different in the next few years. The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) recently announced that it would be administering a “new” bar exam beginning in 2024 or 2025. More information will be coming soon. Some preliminary information is as follows. Read more
Nowadays almost any piece of information is offered online. Whether it’s car prices, the latest news, or your favorite blog (hint hint), chances are you can find it online. The same is true of everything to do with your future law school. From the number of admitted students to the median 1L GPA, to even job placement information – It’s all online. Prospective students have a wealth of information at their fingertips! One common set of information you may have come across during your research are bar passage rates for each school. What do these percentages mean for you and your future law school?
If you are looking for a winning MPT strategy, then review these tips (as well as this video) for a strategy that will help you conquer the MPT. These were written by our tutor who scored in the 99th percentile on the written portion of the Uniform Bar Exam.
Remember that the MPT is a closed-universe exam–meaning, that the examiners’ provide you with all of the law and facts you need to answer the question posed. Thus, it is something that you can excel at pretty quickly if you use the right strategy.
In fact, the MPT can serve as an excellent point cushion to make sure you pass the bar exam! Read more
Nothing is worse than pouring your heart and soul into something and receiving negative feedback. Case and point? Law school final exams. You study for hours in the weeks preceding the exam, manage anxiety and stress, and pour over sample essays…only to find out that you performed poorly on final exams. We understand the disappointment. Law school is far from easy! Despite your less than stellar performance, there are some glimmers of hope for the next round of final exams. As the old saying goes, “you learn more from failure than from success.” Reviewing how you studied and prepared, approached subject material, and asked questions can actually help tremendously when finals next approach. So, while you may not have performed as expected this time around, these tips can help you learn and grow.
To pointedly answer this question, the answer is “no”. We strongly believe that you should use real MBE questions when preparing for the bar exam. Among many other benefits, real MBE questions allow you to get used to the format of the bar exam and accurately assess the difficulty. However, you should know that the vast majority of questions that many bar prep companies provide students are not actual, official licensed MBE questions written by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). This is the organization that writes the bar exam. Instead, they have interally drafted MBE questions that they provide to students to practice. In this post, we explore the pitfalls of drafted MBE questions.
You’ve lamented the bar prep process over the past few months but now you would do anything for extra time. You’re debating whether you should stop studying or study more than normal. You’ve told yourself that you would feel ready but here you are feeling anxious, excited, and underprepared. You’re wondering whether to start listening to “Brain Power: Alpha Waves Studying + Concentration” on YouTube over and over. Maybe you should try that all mango diet you heard about on an infomercial that’s supposed to make you smarter. Yes, we could only be talking about one period of time in a student’s life. The week before the Bar Exam.
Wondering when the February 2021 Michigan Bar Exam results will be released? We are too! The Michigan Board of Law Examiners states that Michigan Bar Exam results are released mid-May, but in reality, they usually are released earlier than that. Below, you can see the past release dates for the February Michigan Bar Exam results.
However, there could be delays in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. And, the February 2021 Michigan Bar Exam will be administered remotely. You can read more about the changes to the Michigan Bar Exam here.
Wondering when the February 2021 bar exam results will be released in your state? In this post, we tell you:
POPULAR POST ALERT: Failed the bar exam – then passed! Here are some tips from people who failed the bar exam!
If you failed the bar exam (or are worried you will!) please check out our free guide on what to do if you failed the bar exam, and our free guide on hiring a bar exam tutor.
Law school interviews are usually one of the last steps before a decision is made to accept or reject you. No big deal, right? (Wrong. Obviously, wrong. BIG deal!) Law school admittance interviews allow the admission officers around the country to put a face to your name. More importantly, the interview process allows admission departments to observe you under pressure and evaluate how you answer tough questions. Ideally, admission departments want to see an applicant who is poised, confident, and persuasive. That sounds hunky-dory, except there’s only one problem. Interviews are hard, let alone interviews that potentially determine the next three years of your life! We understand the pressure (because JD Advising is made up of awesome attorneys) and know exactly how you feel. We all were in your shoes at some point. That’s why we decided to gather the most common law school interview questions and combine them into one blog post. We’re sure that you’re likely to encounter at least one of these questions during a law school interview. Whether you have a law school interview coming up or are just curious, here are the most common interview questions.
Be sure to check out our other post on more interview tips here!
February 2021 Washington DC bar exam results are usually released around the beginning of May. (Our formal prediction is Friday, May 21, 2021. UPDATE: results were released by email to applicants on Thursday, May 13) Note that last administration, the DC Board stated ahead of time when results would be released. So stay tuned to their website as they may do the same thing this administration. This year, the exam is being administered ONLINE only. You can read more about D.C.’s bar exam changes here.
Note that Washington D.C. seems to like releasing results on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays for the most part. Read below for more information.
February 2021 New York Bar Exam results should be released around the end of April or the beginning of May. (Our formal prediction is Wednesday, April 21, 2021, but it really could be anytime at the end of April or beginning of May! Notice in the list below that results were released on April 24 from 2018 to 2020, but in 2021 April 24 is a Saturday so that is very unlikely to be the release date.) Update: results were released on April 21, as predicted!
In this video, we tell you how to structure your MEE answer. We show you exactly how to use IRAC (and how not to use it). If you are taking the bar exam, it is not enough to write the exact same kind of essay you wrote in law school. You don’t want to write a law school essay in response to a bar exam question! Read more
For many second- and third-year law students, their last years are filled with the normal stresses of law school. However, they also have to worry about passing the bar exam and finding a job. Many new graduates will land themselves positions in a law firm. But which is right for you? In this post, we’ll dissect the pros and cons of large firms and small firms!
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