Bar Study Resources: Bar Study - General

CONTENTS
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.
SUMMARY
Acing the Bar Exam provides candidates with a complete guide to the bar exam ₇ from pre-planning considerations through bar review and sitting for the exam. It features comprehensive coverage of the Uniform Bar Exam, including an explanation of each component and how to prepare for it. Every aspect of the process is explained in detail and by example. The bar exam is de-constructed, section by section, where candidates are led through the steps they need to follow to succeed. Approaches for learning the black letter law, setting study schedules, and answering essay and multiple-choice questions are combined to maximize the likelihood of success. Each of these tasks is then configured into checklist format to help candidates navigate each step. This approach puts the candidate in control of the bar exam and not the other way around.

CONTENTS
About the bar exam -- Bar exam basics -- Procedural matters -- The bar planner -- The bar review course -- Learning the black letter law -- Bar exam essays -- The multistate questions -- The Multistate Performance Test -- Legal forensics -- Taking the bar exam -- Advice for the re-taker.
SUMMARY
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."

SUMMARY
This brief, witty book gives examinees a real taste of what the bar exam experience feels like, from the first day of bar prep through the exam days themselves. Michael Stockman provides examples from his own experience taking the NY and MA bar exams in 2010 and 2011. The author shares strategies he devised to manage BarBri, the prep courses he took twice, explaining the strategies that worked for him, from how to get organized to specific advice about condensing notes. He offers study tips and practical advice about test days (such as what to bring) and how to manage stress and anxiety. In addition to a chapter for LLM students, there is a chapter for older test takers and those returning to the law.

CONTENTS
Familiarity with the bar exam -- Common mistakes bar taker make -- Qualities of successful exam takers -- Goals are everything: a schedule for bar exam success -- Techniques for success -- Critical reading techniques -- Critical thinking techniques -- Critical writing techniques -- The approach to game day -- The exam is now: strategies and tactics -- Post-mortem -- The workbook chapter: applying your knowledge.
SUMMARY
This book presents a method for teaching students to pass the bar that is easy to learn and implement.

CONTENTS: Mental toughness -- Bar exam tests your ability to think under pressure -- What is mental toughness? -- Biggest obstacle to mental toughness : unmanaged stress and worry -- Mental toughness requires physical, psychological, and intellectual endurance -- Strengthening physical endurance -- Body's key role in overall endurance -- Strengthening psychological endurance -- Identifying your thoughts -- Changing your thoughts -- Relating to your environment -- Strengthening intellectual endurance -- Plan your study period -- Improve your essay writing skills -- Improve your multiple-choice skills -- Improve your performance test skills

This book is designed to provide guidance to law students as they prepare to embark upon bar study. It covers topics such as how to make a study plan, strategies for successful bar study, tips for attacking each portion of the exam, taking care of your mental health, and preparing your loved ones for bar study. The book also provides weekly tips for use during the bar study period, and for exam day itself. The quick reference format allows students to easily access advice for whatever is most pressing to them at a particular moment.

This book provides a guide to bar exam preparation for all law students, but with a particular focus on those who aspire to be public interest or social justice attorneys, first-generation law students, those law students who do not come from families of lawyers, or who come from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the legal profession. While much of the advice is universal, this book focuses on those students who are about to enter bar study and will not see your communities -- or your future clients -- represented on the bar exam. You may have found that your law school colleagues have received advice about how to study and navigate law school, when no one was there to advise you. This book aims not just to level the playing field, but to give you an edge when it comes to studying for the bar exam.

CONTENTS: 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.

CONTENTS: Part I. Critical preview -- The time is now! : welcome to bar study! -- Before you start : preparing to study -- Engaging from the start : what to do about those lectures, commercial subject outlines, and other bar materials -- Part II. Organizing activities -- Creating a bar exam study schedule : bar study is not "Gone with the wind" and you are not Scarlett O'Hara! -- The MPT : a winner of a test -- The MEE : your write!, therefore you are ... The MBE : the multiple choice portion of the bar exam -- Final study days : a macro organizing exercise -- Part III. Reaching your goal -- Believe you will pass the bar exam.

CONTENTS: About the bar exam -- Bar exam basics -- Procedural matters -- The bar planner -- The bar review course -- Learning the black letter law -- Bar exam essays -- The multistate questions -- The Multistate Performance Test -- Legal forensics -- Taking the bar exam -- Advice for the re-taker.

CONTENTS
Part I. First-time bar passage : one and done -- Set Your Goal and Commit to Success -- Develop a Plan for Success : Your GPS to Bar Passage -- The Transition from Student to Professional -- Get Ready for Success : Reduce Distractions, Increase Your Focus, and Manage Your Time -- Get and Use Quality Expert Help : Reliable Bar Review Courses, Academic Support Faculty, and Trusted Mentors -- Enlist Your Troops and Lose the Naysayers : It Takes a Village of Positive People -- Write and Post Your Schedule, Then Adapt It to Maximize Productivity -- Practice Tests : The Heavy Lifting -- The Home Stretch : Eliminate Distractions and Embrace Success -- Celebrate Your Achievement and Acknowledge and Thank Those Who Helped You (Then Set Your Next Goal!) -- Part II. Repeating the bar exam : this will be the last time -- Why Didn't I Pass the Bar Exam? -- I Feel Like I Was Kicked in the Teeth -- Rethink "Failure" and Use Your Previous Experience as Preparation for Success.

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Putting the pieces together -- Understanding memory and mind maps -- Developing your game plan -- Building essay-writing skills -- Building multistate performance test skills -- Building multistate bar examination skills -- Building confidence with strategies -- Not the first time -- Mapping MBE topics: civil procedure -- Mapping MBE topics: constitutional law -- Mapping MBE topics: contracts -- Mapping MBE topics: criminal law and procedure -- Mapping MBE topics: evidence -- Mapping MBE topics: real property -- Mapping MBE topics: torts -- Mapping business topics -- Mapping trusts and estates -- Mapping family law -- Mapping secured transactions -- Mapping conflict of laws.

CONTENTS: Familiarity with the bar exam -- Common mistakes bar taker make -- Qualities of successful exam takers -- Goals are everything: a schedule for bar exam success -- Techniques for success -- Critical reading techniques -- Critical thinking techniques -- Critical writing techniques -- The approach to game day -- The exam is now: strategies and tactics -- Post-mortem -- The workbook chapter: applying your knowledge.

CONTENTS: Mental toughness -- Bar exam tests your ability to think under pressure -- What is mental toughness? -- Biggest obstacle to mental toughness : unmanaged stress and worry -- Mental toughness requires physical, psychological, and intellectual endurance -- Strengthening physical endurance -- Body's key role in overall endurance -- Strengthening psychological endurance -- Identifying your thoughts -- Changing your thoughts -- Relating to your environment -- Strengthening intellectual endurance -- Plan your study period -- Improve your essay writing skills -- Improve your multiple-choice skills -- Improve your performance test skills.

CONTENTS: What are "bar exams" and why are they so hard? -- Action plan checklists -- Staying positive : increasing your likelihood of passing your bar exam by managing your mood, attitude, and stress -- Preparing your significant others for the bar exam -- Bar exam components -- Carefully selecting your bar exam state -- Obtaining licensing information for your state -- Bar review courses -- Bar exam statistics and individual risk factors for not passing the bar -- Your winning game plan -- The knowledge and skills you bring to your bar study -- Your study strategies should change over time -- Expert study strategies for substantive law -- Doing practice exam questions for your multistate bar exam -- Doing practice exam questions for your essay exam -- Doing practice exam questions for your performance exam -- Putting it all together : your individualized study plan -- "What-ifs" : dealing with an unexpected crisis during your preparation period -- Taking your bar exam -- Getting licensed in more than one state -- Repeating a bar exam -- Final words.

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Preparing for the journey -- Knowing your true self -- Your presence is requested -- Noreuil's top ten tips for essay writing -- Studying for the multi-state bar exam -- Noreuil's top ten tips for the MBE -- Handling negativity and bumps along the path -- Knowing your universe -- After the exam.

Made up of several volumes from several different years including Multistate, Practice questions, Drills and Released Questions, etc.
CONTENTS: Constitutional law -- Contracts -- Sales--Criminal law--Criminal procedure--Evidence -- Real property -- Torts.

CONTENTS: Corporations -- Criminal procedure -- Evidence -- Family law -- Wills.