Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
How can you give yourself a boost heading into the bar exam? For some bar candidates, Wednesday (the MBE day) is the first day of the exam, followed by state law on Thursday. Others have a state exam on Tuesday. And some have state exam days both on Tuesday and on Thursday. Read over these suggestions, so you can make your plans for those last few days well ahead of time.
In all likelihood, you have been studying like a crazy person and maximizing the last few weeks of studying for the bar exam.
Now that you are ready to rock, here are some tips to help reduce stress on exam day and put you in prime position to pass the bar exam.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
I asked my bar-prep students for their suggestions for reducing stress and maximizing study results in the last two weeks before the bar exam. Here are their eleven best suggestions:
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
The people who pass the bar exam are not necessarily smarter than the people who fail. But they do use different study strategies. Good study strategies are active, not passive. They help you get the rules into your mental inventory. Then you can whip them out when you need them for a fast analysis of a fact pattern on the bar exam.
Here are ten study strategies: five bad ones and five good ones.
Whether you’ve been studying like a maniac or taking it easy, the bar exam is happening in less than a month.
These last few weeks can make the difference between passing the bar exam and . . . well . . . just follow these tips and don’t worry about the other outcome.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
Success on the performance test part of the bar exam requires keeping control of your time and following the instructions to the letter. Too many people just launch into the work product on the performance test without looking at the clock, hoping they will “cover” the material. That’s like jumping into the Atlantic Ocean and starting to swim, hoping you will get to Europe. It is impossible to finish on time.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
People fail the bar exam because they don’t finish the essays. They spend so much time on an early essay that they can’t write the later essays. Or they work on all of the essays, but without finishing some or all of them. Either way, these bar candidates are writing too slowly, and it costs them their ticket to a law license. Finishing is key.
The good news is that writing slowly is not inborn, or the result of slow genes. On the contrary, slow writers and fast writers do different things when they write, they don’t just do the same things at different speeds. Change what you do, and you can finish the essays and your tasks on the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) or the California Performance Test (PT), perhaps even with time to spare.
If you can use Twitter, you can finish the bar exam essays in plenty of time.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
Studying for the bar exam is stressful. But it is also your chance to take control and bring together the scattered threads of law that you learned in law school. To succeed, you must plan your life, as the old saying goes, and live your plan. You want to walk into the bar exam knowing that you have done what you set out to do. The results are in the hands of the gods. I assume you’ve read Five Tips for Early Bar Exam Prep. So you’re ready. Let’s go.
It’s officially spring. The flowers are blooming, they’re predicting snow for Pittsburgh, and third year law students are graduating. Most graduates will have a week or two before they begin preparing for the bar exam. But before you begin your studying, take a look at the bar exam articles here at Lawyerist.
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“Does anyone know of a blog or chat for significant others of people prepping for the [bar] exam?”
by Lawyerist on May 31, 2012 in Law School
From a comment on Open Letter to a Law School Wife:
Anyone have a link? Please reply to the comment if you do.