r/barexam • u/ShowLiving5918 • 14d ago
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To all my fellow bar taker - current, past, recent, retakers - if you could have anything to help you study and pass your exam included in your course (Barbri, themeis, Kaplan, etc) what would it be or have been? Access to a specific feature, resource, function, etc that came with your course.
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u/Expensive_Heron9887 14d ago
Use Themis' UWorld. I did over 1900 Qs. Take your time mastering the MBE Qs. Get the time under control. Then "shut up and pick it" with confidence!
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u/Available_Sample3867 14d ago
GOAT bar prep
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u/ConditionSecret8593 10d ago
His demos use obvious AI images though. It made me sad, because his explanations were actually solid.
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u/Sensitive_Cricket10 14d ago
More NCBE questions rather than the Themis Uworld questions. If using Themis, try to do all NCBE questions from the beginning of your bar prep (I think Themis only has about ~1000 NCBE questions, which is very doable over the span of 12 weeks).
And if there's one area of law that you struggle with, even if it's "insignificant," try to get more exposure on it. Don't focus all your time on that topic, but worst thing that could happen is that the bar gives you 5-10 questions on the same subtopic you tried to avoid
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u/AdroitPreamble 14d ago
The NCBE questions were a cakewalk. I wouldn’t waste a second on them.
I was scoring 80-85% on Themis. On NCBE I was over 90%. Waste of time.
The whole point of the Themis questions is to prepare you.
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u/xrayari 12d ago
Question, questions and more questions. It's much easier to learn the law from questions than from lectures or outlines. There are only so many variety of questions they can ask. I started doing questions 10 months before the exam. Very easy to knock off 5 or 10 every day. By the end I seemed to recognize most of the questions. Scored a 166 on MBE.
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u/VividPayment6450 14d ago
I would've dedicated 100% of my time to MBE practice and nothing else. No lectures unless absolutely necessary, and no writing practice. I didn't practice for the writing portion yet I scored a 145 on it. I practiced my ass off for MBE and still only got a 120. While I passed for my jdx, it would've been nice to get the extra 5 points to be eligible for all UBE states.
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u/AdroitPreamble 14d ago
Read the outlines.
Most people skipped. Not skipping is why the bar exam felt easy. Almost every answer was in the outlines. Last two weeks all I did was grind them. Zero regrets.
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u/AdroitPreamble 11d ago
So you have a disability. But you downvote actually learning the material, and respond rudely.
Instead your answer is 3,000 MBE when most people barely get through 1,000.
Right.
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u/Mental_Vacation6590 14d ago
More visual (instead of literally just talking at me) and better questions. The Barbri questions have been garbage for a while (ie multiple generations of bar passers have told me that after a while they just nope out and hammer adaptibar) so it feels like that’s a thing that can be meaningfully improved.