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BarWrite® Blog: Part II of Memorizing for the Bar Exam

This is Part II of our series on Memorizing for Higher Bar Exam Scores. Read on for information on how to raise your scores

Memorizing is so helpful that it surprises me how often students ask me to teach them how to memorize.  I am also surprised how often they have wrong ideas about what memorizing is and how to do it.  People who don't know how to memorize are losing a lot of time in their study process. Memorizing makes all studying quicker and easier. Every grade school teaches students to memorize the times tables.  Every school should teach students how to memorize.

The first wrong idea is that memorizing a rule means the same thing as getting the general idea of a legal principle.  Not so.  Memorizing means committing the words on the page to memory, so that when

BarWrite® Blog: Why Memorize for the Bar Exam? Part I

Can memorizing help raise your scores on the bar exam?  Yes, and memorizing will also help you practice law.  That's how the brain works and grows.  Read on for Part I of our series about Memorizing for Higher Bar Exam Scores and see below for information about BarWrite® bar classes for New York or for All States.

Surprised that memorizing is so good?  We all use our memories intensively every day.  We remember our telephone numbers and our loved one's names, and we remember what we are supposed to buy at the grocery store and what happened last year and ten years ago.  Without memory, we would be lost in the hell of amnesia.  Not only can we remember much of what happens, and the things we hear about, but we also know how to put things into our memories systematically, by practicing new skills.  And for

BarWrite® Free and Fee Study Aids for the February Bar Exam

The bar exam is only a few months away, and chances are you are preparing for the bar exam or you know people who are preparing for the bar exam. Here is a list-- please share it with your friends--of the FREE and other programs BarWrite® will be offering for the February 2010 bar exam, either for ALL States, or for the New York bar exam. The Earliest Enrollment discounts end October 1, but if you miss those discounts, stay tuned for other offers. ALL For-Fee courses include the opportunity to enroll for the online MBE tool Adaptibar at a discount. For further information about all BarWrite® programs, whether FREE or Fee, visit http://www.BarWrite.com.

* NEW! FREE for ALL STATES. Tuesday, October 6, 2010, 7pm Eastern Time. FREE BarWrite® Teleseminar on "HOW TO PLAN YOUR BAR EXAM STUDY SCHEDULE."Here's your chance to get ready for our BarWrite® bar-prep courses and get really ready for the bar exam. Hand-outs with suggested schedules included.

* NEW! FREE for ALL STATES. Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 7pm Eastern Time. FREE BarWrite® Teleseminar on "WHAT TO EXPECT ON THE BAR EXAM." Get ready for the bar exam. Hand-outs with ways to analyze your bar-readiness(TM) included.

* FREE FOR ALL STATES. SCORING HIGH ON BAR EXAM ESSAYS. FREE BOOKLET with two Chapters from Dr. Mary Campbell Gallagher's highly-acclaimed book Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays. This book "may be the best money you can spend on bar exam preparation." -- The St. John's Law School Forum. The whole book and the companion CDs are also available at BarWrite.com. See announcement at bottom of this message.

* January 25, 2010, or February 15, 20010. BarWrite® 1-DAY MPT BOOT CAMP FOR ALL STATES. Normally $137.00, now $87.00. Can you research and write a good brief or legal memorandum? In 90 minutes? This intensive all-day boot camp, our most popular course, teaches you how to boost your score on that most-overlooked source of competitive advantage, the Multistate Performance Test (MPT).

* Wednesday, January 13, 2010. BarWrite® 1-DAY ESSAY BOOT CAMP FOR ALL STATES. Early Enrollment Discount tuition is $97.00. *One full day of essay organization, analysis, and performance, using Dr. Gallagher's highly-acclaimed book Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays, PLUS essay materials from your own state. Good for ALL STATES. http://www.barwrite.com/1day- essay-bootcamp.html. [Caveat. New York has so many legal distinctions and it tests on so many subjects that we strongly urge students taking the New York bar exam to enroll in the 3-day New York boot camp, instead.]

* January 26-28 -29, 2010 or February 16-18-19, 2010. BarWrite® 3-DAY NEW YORK ESSAY BOOT CAMP. Strenuous training to boost your New York essay scores. "Dr. Gallagher takes the mass of information studied and teaches her students how to apply it effectively in essays," says Christina Valentine, Australian solicitor (Member, New York Bar). Spend a few days in New York City raising your scores on the New York bar essays! Early Enrollment Discount is $367.00, to October 1, 2009.

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* STARTS JANUARY 3, 2010. BarWrite® 10-DAY NEW YORK ESSAY-INTENSIVE/RETAKER GROUP COACHING SCHOOL. MBE-NY ESSAYS-MPT. Helps you pole-vault the bar. "My MBE went from a 126 to a 149!" Gemma Waananen Kenney (Member, New York and New Jersey Bars). For retakers, foreign-trained attorneys and first-time takers. Dr. Gallagher highly recommends that foreign-trained attorneys supplement BarBri or Pieper with BarWrite's TEN-DAY ESSAY-INTENSIVE GROUP COACHING SCHOOL. Early Enrollment Discount for new students is $1147 to October 1. BarWrite ALUMNI qualify for additional discounts. Visit

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BarWrite® 10-DAY PREMIUM PACKAGE INCLUDES

* 10-Day BarWrite New York Essay-Intensive/Retaker Group Coaching School

* Private Consulting Program on Study Schedules

* Private Coaching Program on BarWrite MBE Study System(TM) with Dr. Gallagher.

* $3,250 and up. Call for eligibility (212) 327-2817.

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BarWrite® PRIVATE COACHING

MBE, ALL-STATES ESSAYS, ALL-STATES MPT

* 10-Hour Packages

* At mutual convenience

* In combination with classes or boot camps

* $1,500 and up in addition to tuition for class or boot camp. Call for eligibility (212) 327-2817.

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Our advice is, Enroll today! Visit

"I sat through one course of BARBRI, two courses of PMBR, one Marino Retaker course, and two BARBRI Marino essay courses. Finally, I took the 10-day BarWrite course, and it was the only one that made me feel prepared for the New York bar exam. The only course that I now recommend to other people is the BarWrite course, which I loved."

-- Stefanie Weiss, Brooklyn Law School (Member, New York bar)

For more information visit http://www.BarWrite.com

Wishing you the greatest success on the bar exam,

MCG

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SCORING HIGH ON BAR EXAM ESSAYS . This book "may be the best money you can spend on bar exam preparation." -- The St. John's Law School Forum. The BARWRITE® ALL-STATES MPT BOOT CAMP boosts your score on an often-overlooked source of competitive advantage, the Multistate Performance Test (MPT).  THE BARWRITE® TEN-DAY GROUP COACHING SCHOOL helps you pole-vault the bar. "My MBE went from a 126 to a 149!" Gemma Waananen Kenney (Member, New York and New Jersey Bars). Dr. Gallagher recommends that foreign-trained attorneys supplement BarBri or Pieper with BarWrite's TEN-DAY ESSAY-INTENSIVE GROUP COACHING SCHOOL.  THE BARWRITE® THREE-DAY NEW YORK ESSAY BOOT CAMP boosts essay scores. "Dr. Gallagher takes the mass of information studied and teaches her students how to apply it effectively in essays," says Christina Valentine, Australian solicitor (Member, New York Bar).