Every morning for two and a half months, I woke up, turned to my trusty Bar Bri calendar, and did what they told me to do. Having just finished law school, I had no desire to ever have to sit through another lecture again, but recognized that I had to do something to pass the bar. I'd focused on IP law, something untested on either NY or CT's bars, so I had to get some help.

Enter Bar Bri.

Bar Bri is a two and a half month program that teaches you everything you will need to know about how to pass the bar, _if_ you devote the time and energy to it. Every substantive area that your state tests is addressed. Test taking skills are addressed. They plot your course out down to what you should eat for dinner the night before the bar exam.

If you think that you can wing it on your own, good luck. You're probably wrong. It's virtually impossible, even with the materials, to absorb all 30+ subjects in the allotted time span. The best way to do it is to read the outlines that Bar Bri provides before your lectures, go to your lectures, take notes in the lecture, go out at lunchtime and gripe to your friends about how much your hands hurt, and then compare salaries.

There's nothing that escapes their attention - from methods of taking the multistate, providing a practice multistate, to methods of writing the essays that you might have skipped in law school, but which are crucial for bar passage. If you avoid the method that they teach you, your score drops. If you don't do issue spotting the way they teach you, good luck getting any points on the essays.

There's also one feature of Bar Bri which makes them stand out head and shoulders above the rest - they have trained staff members on call by telephone at almost all times, so that if you have a question about something you can't get, or, more likely, you just need to talk to someone because your brain is full of legal material and all of your friends have abandoned you, you can just call them and they will help you. They were helpful, friendly and useful every time I had a problem.

And, no matter what else you do, do the practice essays and multiple choice questions. Memorization is only %30 of the test, if that. Knowing how to properly answer to get those extra half points on the essays makes all the difference. To not take advantage of the essay grading services is to waste your time.

I wholeheartedly support Bar Bri, and if you're wavering between which one to pick, remember that it's an investment in your future earning potential.



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