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BarWrite® Blog: Finish the MPT and Bar Exam Essays on Time

THE ESSAYS AND MPT DIFFER. The bar exam essays are different from the Multistate Performance Test (MPT)--or the California Performance Test--because the essays require knowing a lot of law, which the MPT does not. On the other hand, there are key similarities between the essays and the MPT. First, both the essays and the MPT require a bar candidate to stay in control of time. Second, both the essays and the MPT require a bar candidate to read

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® Blog: Persistence for the bar exam

Bar candidates should keep in mind what Calvin Coolidge said about persistence: "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

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And now a key hint for how to study effectively, from Bar Write Blog's sponsor:

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).

BarWrite® Blog: Selected Top Picks for Bar Study

NEW! Owing to popular demand, our FREE BarWrite® teleseminar on "How to Plan Your Bar Exam Study Schedule" will be repeated next week. Tell your friends they can sign up at http://www.BarWrite.com

The time is 7pm Eastern Time on Friday, May 29, but participants should plan to come on the line five minutes early. Sign up FREE at http://www.BarWrite.com

OTHER SELECTED TOP PICKS FOR STUDY FOR BAR STUDY.

If you are preparing for the California bar exam, take advantage of all the resources Travis Wise offers, starting with his California Bar Exam Primer. http://www.twise.com/barexam/index.htm, and the CaliforniaBarExamPrimer@yahoogroups.com.

Our supplemental BarWrite® courses, both the New York courses and our ALL-STATES courses for the essays and the MPT, are the most demanding and rigorous courses in the entire bar-prep field, using state bar materials and our own proprietary systems. For more information visit http://www.BarWrite.com

HELP PREPARING FOR THE ESSAYS

Mary Campbell Gallagher, Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays (Third edition), New York: BarWrite Press, 2006 (Book and CDs) Available at http://www.BarWrite.com

HELP PREPARING FOR THE MBE

Steve Emmanuel and Kimm Alayne Walton, Strategies and Tactics for the MBE, New York: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2005.

Steve Emmanuel, Law in a Flash Cards: Contracts. New York, Aspen Publishers, 2004

Steven Finz, Strategies and Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method (Second Edition), New York, Aspen Publishers, 2004

Adaptibar. http://www.Adaptibar.com

National Conference of Bar Examiners, http://www.ncbex.org

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Wishing you all the greatest success on the bar exam,

MCG

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And now a key hint for how to begin studying and study effectively, from Bar Write Blog's sponsor:

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).

To Prepare for the Bar Exam, Get Exercise Every Day

To keep your mental machinery running smoothly for the
bar exam, exercise for one hour every day. That's right.
One hour. Every day. Strenuous exercise, not just

New BarWrite® Boot Camp for All States' Bar Exam Essays

BarWrite® and BarWrite Press president Dr. Mary Campbell Gallagher will teach bar candidates how to overcome common essay hurdles and boost their bar exam essay scores in an intensive live One-Day All-States

Justice Clarence Thomas Analyzes the Bar Examination

Jake Lybberty reports Justice Clarence Thomas's saying in My Grandfather's Son that "like every other black law student, I was uncomfortably aware that blacks failed to pass the bar exams at a much higher rate than whites . . . ." At first Justice Thomas assumed that racial discrimination must be to

New York Bar Examiners Get New Software, Liability Waiver

According to a story from the New York Law Journal on today's Law.com, the New York Board of Law Examiners has chosen a new software provider for bar candidates who use a laptop to take the February 2008 bar exam. The BOLE will also require bar candidates to sign a waiver of liability. Neither move is surprising in

New York Bar Examiners Will Entertain Appeals Over Laptop Problems

This just in. According to Eric Turkewitz's blog, New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog, the New York bar

Chocolate Beats Bar Exam

Susan Tuveson, then a family and divorce attorney, had a revelation while she was looking through her chocolate cookbooks right before the Maine bar exam. She decided not to take the