Why do so many students pay so much money for bar exams courses and many of them still fail? This is very true for the real bar exams given by New York and California. Pass rates are very low. Almost all the students take a bar review course and still fail.
The number 1 problem law students have in their first year of law school is to learn how to write an exam. Funny thing is, they never learn the skill of exam writing. That is why only 15% of law students get an A in any course they take. That is due in part to all the lies and idiots who advise them on how to write an exam. I will give you two examples as it is not constructive to dwell on the negative issues but to present valid solutions.
- A well-known publisher got a professor to write a how-to book on exam writing for law school. In the first part of the book the professor admits that he doesn’t like exams at all and would rather not be grading them or even teaching students about how to write them. They paraded this fool around the country giving exam writing seminars. Only the village idiot would follow any of the trite advice this “genius” professor professed.
- A well-known author bragged about his exam writing skills by not finishing an exam and still getting a B. He knows practically nothing about exam writing and yet he has written exam writing study guides and to put it bluntly he has no clue.
I could go on for days and add about 100 or more pages about all the dimwits who claim to know something about law school or bar exam writing.
It was by pure luck that I met the #1 guy in the world who understood exam writing for law school and bar exams. His name was Herschel Walker. It came naturally to him. I purposefully took courses with Hershel and even did some work for him as an intern to just pick his brain.
The end result is the MP3 Exam WritingTM 2020 Lecture. It has evolved from what Hershel knew by actual implementation over a 20-plus year period with 100,000’s of students and actual results.
Use Common Sense for Law School and Bar Exams.
- If you don’t memorize the law you will not be able to ask all the questions and will easily miss issues on any exam. If you do memorize the law you will easily spot issues on the exam that even the prof missed and you will have 1/2 of any exam ever written before you walk into the exam room.
- If you write IRAC format you will waste 30% of your allotted time to take the exam. If you write a modified IRAC format that is in narrative you will save all that time and present a visually perfect result that is easy to read just like you are talking to the prof or the grader. Think about it. If you speak your answer out loud and it is bad it will read just as bad.
- If you are not disciplined and have trained to take an exam you will screw it up royally. Usually, you are given 1 hour or 1/2 an hour to answer each question. If you are not disciplined you will take a large amount of time to write one answer and then you are screwed for all the ones that are left. We see it so many times on bar exams where the model answer for a 1-hour question is 2700 words or more. It is impossible to write that much in 1 hour.
- And on and on the lists goes…. This is just a taste of what is required. There is a lot more.
Law School and Bar Exam Writing is a Skill
If you think you can attend a bar review a month or two before the exam or a lecture on exam writing weeks before an exam and do well you are the village Idiot. At any such event, you only adsorb at most 10-15%. I gave you just three examples above about what you need to do and none of them can be learned or mastered in a few weeks. It takes months and months of dedicated work and constant re-exposure to the core principles and requirements in order to acquire the skill.
The plus side of spending all that time is it takes no more time and effort than you are currently spending and you will actually learn the law, get good grades, easily pass any bar exam in the country, and be a really good attorney.
What is important is you realize we put the resources in place to save you a ton of time so you can spend it all on what is important. We have case briefs so you don’t waste time, outlines to memorize, flashcards to help in the memorization process, banks of exams, and using Dean’s Law Dictionary for learning idiomatic law and for self-grading.
We show you how to put all the pieces together in our MP3 Exam WritingTM 2020 lecture.
We will teach you how to increase your learning efficiency by 2x-3x and with all the ancillary products put in place to save you time and effort learning the skill of law school and bar exam writing is very doable.
The rewards are endless.
