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The Three Bar Exam Books You Need to Pass the Bar Exam

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The Three Bar Exam Books You Need to Pass the Bar Exam

The Three Bar Exam Books You Need to Pass the Bar Exam: Based on our experience with the bar exam, we’ve compiled a list of bar exam books we think are extremely helpful in bar preparation.  These books are meant to be used as supplements to your bar exam course materials.

The Three Bar Exam Books You Need to Pass the Bar Exam

1.  Strategies and Tactics for the MBE by Emanuel Bar Review

The first bar exam book that you need to pass the bar exam is the Strategies and Tactics for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) by Emanuel Bar Review.  We highly recommend this book to students taking the bar exam.   While most commercial courses use their own generated MBE questions, this book allows students to practice with NCBE-released questions. These are real MBE questions!  This helps students become familiar with actual MBE questions and best prepares them for the bar exam. This book provides students with NCBE-released questions. It also contains tips and strategies on how to approach an MBE question. In addition, it also provides comprehensive and detailed explanations for each answer as well as the additional options. (Another alternative to Strategies and Tactics is signing up for Adaptibar — which is not a book; rather, it is an online program with 1100 questions!)

Wondering why you need real MBE questions? Or are you wondering about all the sources for them? Read this post for more information.

2. MEE One-Sheets (for the Uniform Bar Exam) or How to Pass the Michigan Bar Exam by JD Advising

For those taking the Uniform Bar Exam (“UBE”) or any bar exam that has a MEE component, we recommend our Multistate Essay Exam (“MEE”) One-Sheets.  Our MEE One-Sheets provide a last-minute review of the highly-tested material on the MEE.  The One-Sheets contain the highly-tested areas of law for each subject since 1995 to the present date (including the July 2016 UBE).  Students find the One-Sheets helpful because they provide a detailed, focused and concise review of the tested subjects. They also help students discern trends in each subject, helping them predict some of the issues on the MEE.

Alternatively, if you are in Michigan, we also recommend picking up a copy of our How to Pass the Michigan Bar Exam book.  The book, which is available for purchase online here, is a great resource for those taking the Michigan bar exam.  It provides tips and strategies for studying smart, a step-by-step guide for writing high-scoring bar exam essays, and a time-tested method to improve your multiple choice (MBE) score. Additionally, the book also includes twenty-four one-sheets. These one-sheets condense the most highly-tested areas of law for each of the potential Michigan bar exam essay subjects into one sheet, each.   They are especially helpful as students get closer to the bar exam and don’t have time to review full outlines. Students review these one-sheets prior to the bar to make sure their recall of high-tested law is fresh.

3. A book to help you stay sane during bar prep.

Some of our students like the book Bar Exam Mind by Matt Racine.  Others like Daily Reflections when studying for the bar exam. Or perhaps you have books that contain meditative or stress-reducing practices that are unrelated to bar prep!

While this recommendation differs from the ones above, it is equally as important.  Understandably, students studying for the bar exam experience a lot of stress, anxiety and fear.  We believe that taking care of your mental health is just as important in preparing for the bar exam.  Many smart and well-prepared students fail the bar exam because they let stress, anxiety and fear get in the way.  Books focused on mental health and wellness provide students with strategies on how to approach the bar exam. They also gives tips on how to alleviate the stress and anxiety that comes with taking the bar exam.

We believe that if you read the bar exam books mentioned above, in combination with your bar exam course materials, you will be well prepared for the bar exam!

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