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Behind on Bar Exam Bar/bri Paced Schedule?

Are you behind on your bar/bri paced schedule for your bar exam prep? Welcome to the club!  Give bar exam students a few weeks, and there won’t be a single person who is completely on track.  It’s as close to possible as scoring a perfect answer.

The good news? You don’t have to be completely on pace.  Bar/bri sets the bar high, both in their scoring and homework assignments.  If you can complete all their assignments on time, you are rocking it and probably should be teaching people how to pass the bar exam, rather than taking it.

This doesn’t mean you can fall too far behind.  My first few weeks, I mostly stayed on schedule, missing conviser readings and not doing the amount of essays and MBE’s suggested.

In the second phase, I really started to slip and was almost doing things at my own pace, skipping around to what I felt was most important, while trying to keep on track with barbri.

The last few weeks and third phase of bar prep, I didn’t give a hoot what the barbri homework was.  I was studying only what I felt I needed to work on and was doing lots of practice exams.

By the end of my bar exam prep, I hadn’t even looked at the second MBE book and not got past MBE exam #5 for each topic.  On my essays, I was lucky to have looked at five or six essays per topic.  I completed about four or five performance tests.

So, if you’re behind don’t worry.  Just keep moving.  Focus on improving your weak spots.  Everyone else is behind too.

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Read Conviser or the Full Outline?



For those of you taking the Bar/bri course or if you just ordered the Bar/bri books for your bar exam prep, you will find two sets of outlines. One set is the Conviser Mini-review book, containing all the rules you’ll ever need come bar exam day. The second set are two books, which contain more extended versions of each rule.

Do yourself a favor. Take the two larger books, and hide them or give them away so you never see them again. Not only will you save on space, but you’ll also save on time.

In the beginning of my bar prep, I decided I would be extra prepared by reading these extended outlines in the bigger books. I soon realized that not only was I having a hard time remembering the rules, I found myself running out of time to do all my other assignments, such as multiple choice and essay questions.

Later, I realized how useless it is to merely read the rules anyway, whether it was Conviser or not.  It’s more effective to learn and memorize the rules in a situation where I was applying what I was reading to a specific exam fact pattern or actually making an attempt to memorize the rules I didn’t know, as opposed to just reading through them.

After receiving recommendations from the Bar/bri people themselves that I didn’t need the larger books, I stopped reading them and have never looked at them since. The rules provided for in the Conviser are more than enough detail of what you’ll need. Besides, it’s the way you use the rules and your analysis, not your rule statements that will win the day for you.

Best of luck with your bar exam prep.

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