Bar Exam Preparation Materials

This ground-breaking book for the law student is not just about passing a test: it is about changing identity, moving from student to professional, and assuming your role as an ethical leader in a complex legal world. You'll find priceless information on: Reducing Distractions, Increasing Focus, and Managing Time Getting and Using Quality Help Practice MBEs, Essays, and Performance tests The Transition from Student to Professional This must-read resource is your helpful mentor, offering concrete advice on how to face and handle today s challenges and achieve. despite them. In addition, the book includes worksheets, questionnaires, goal setting sessions, and other tools to help you stay organized and focused."

Preliminary matters -- Bar exam basics -- Procedural matters -- The bar planner -- The bar review course -- Learning the black letter law -- Practicing essay questions for the bar exam -- Practicing questions for the multistate bar exam ("MBE") -- Practicing questions for the multistate perfomance test ("MPT") -- Taking the bar exam -- When it's over -- Advice for the re-taker -- A bar exam make-over.

This edition walks you through the entire bar preparation process from getting a head start during your last year of law school to taking the exam. It features comprehensive coverage of the Uniform Bar Exam, including an explanation of each component and how to prepare for it, to the larger question of what "portability" really means for the bar candidate. This edition also provides guidelines for selecting a bar review course, bar planner checklists, advice on how to manage the material you cover in bar review courses, and advice on how to learn the law so you can remember it and use it to answer exam questions. It identifies the basic skills the exam tests and the precise manner in which these skills are tested, showing you how to target your study efforts to maximize results. An Appendix provides practice materials for the MPT and essays, including the MEEs, with "answer de-constructions" to explain why bar examiners chose those answers as "better than average."

This book presents a method for teaching students to pass the bar that is easy to learn and implement. Topics covered include learning to study actively rather than passively; choosing study partners who will help, not hinder, your studying; learning to think, read, and write critically; dissecting multistate exam questions; coping with pressure; making the most of the weeks before the bar exam; and preparing for the day of the exam.

Taking the Bar Exam? · Have you ever finished reading a test question only to find that you have no idea what you just read? · Have you ever been so worried about finishing a test in time that you wrote gibberish? · Have you ever put off studying for exams until the last minute? · Have you ever been unable to answer a question and had it dog you for the rest of the test, interfering with your concentration? · Have you ever marked an unintended multiple-choice response or written an exam answer in the wrong booklet? If you answered YES to some or all of these questions, then stress and worry have affected your academic performance in the past and will likely affect your performance on the bar exam. This book can prevent that from happening. It includes 73 ways to keep stress and worry from affecting your performance on the Bar Exam. About the Author Rosemary La Puma is the founder and owner of Rosemary's Review A Comprehensive Bar Tutorial. She has been leading bar tutorials and helping students pass the California bar exam for 14 years. Professor La Puma has taught hundreds of students her simple but effective techniques. Professor La Puma's interest in the effects of stress and worry on academic performance started with her own California bar experience. This book is a compilation of the techniques she has used to help her and her students master their stress and worry. An adjunct professor at Golden Gate University Law School, Professor La Puma teaches legal writing courses. In addition, she served as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at the University of Southern California School of Law during the 2007-2008 school year.

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