The bar exam is not just another test, and this book is not just another set of instructions. This book is your personal success guide. Whether taking a UBE or a state-specific bar, students need to not only master the material but to train and prepare for one of the toughest high-stakes exam experiences around. This book will more than prepare you to pass the bar exam; the author's words will motivate you to do what it takes to succeed in law school, on the bar exam, and in the legal profession. Particular chapters will help you to:
Reduce Distractions, Increase Focus, and Manage and Protect Your Time
Employ Powerfully Effective Learning Strategies
Develop and Stick to Your Schedule
Practice and Hone Skills for Success on MBEs, Essays, and MPTs
Cope with Stress and Pressure, and Help Your Friends and Family to Help You Succeed
Enhance your Positive Growth Mindset, Personal Wellness, and Sense of Belonging
Transition with Confidence from Law Student to Professional
This book is written from the perspective of a bar mentor, your "trainer at the academic gym," with concrete advice on how to handle the many challenges facing today's law students. There are dozens of self-assessments, tools to help you face very real challenges on every level, and to organize and prepare to pass the bar exam. The book includes trustworthy advice and powerful personal examples from the author's decades of helping students pass bar exams nationwide. The book is uplifting and positive, while harnessing cutting-edge, scientific learning theories.
The time spent studying for the bar exam that so many people dread and think of as a hazing ritual can be an empowering stage, if you approach it with the right attitude, get yourself equipped for success, and then work really hard. The author calls legal education "a power tool for social change." Passing the bar and becoming licensed will allow you to wield that tool and find opportunities throughout your professional life to do well and to do good.
Whether you are first in your law school class or last, this book will help you achieve your goals and set you on a lifelong cycle of success.
