Happy New Year February 2014 bar exam takers! The Christmas decorations are starting to come down, New Year’s Eve hangovers are mostly gone, and the holidays are officially behind us now. What does all this mean? Time to get on a regular study schedule. Barbri has officially started and so have I, which means that every day there is some amount of studying going on, even if it’s only an hour or two. Try to have a positive outlook right now even if you did not study as much as you would have liked to (or at all) during the holidays. We’ve got about 50 days until the bar exam which doesn’t sound like much, but it is in fact a decent amount. Put your study schedule together, make a plan and start to follow it. It takes dedication and discipline to pass the bar exam, but being organized and smart about things helps. Don’t just randomly study from a gigantic pile of bar review materials each day. Instead, create a plan to help prevent yourself from getting overwhelmed by studying from a smaller, more manageable set of materials. And of course, if you have any general questions about the bar exam, feel free to drop me a line or post a comment here.
4 replies on “Happy New Year, time to start studying”
Do you have a study schedule template for the va bar exam?
No, I do not use templates.
Do you have any recommendations for someone just taking the essay portion of the DC bar exam? I have barbri materials from the VA bar exam and am going to get the NCBE materials online. I am just wondering what the best MEE or MPT books are since I am unfamiliar with what those essays require.
For taking just the Essay Day your barbri materials from VA will only be useful for the MBE subjects (as they are tested on the MEE). You will want to get MPT materials (I recommend the Rigos book as well as materials directly from the NCBE) and same for the MEE (Rigos book and NCBE past exams). The DC exam is purely multistate so the Rigos UBE series MEE and MPT books work great.