Welcome back! Today we have one of our most experienced bar tutors, Ariel Salzer with us to talk about the essay portion of the bar exam. Many students dread (and even put off) practicing for the essays. We dig into why this is and give helpful tips on how to tackle those essays and find bar exam success.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why are the bar exam essays so challenging?
- The favorite strategy for preparing for the bar exam essay
- Why is practice so important?
- Why students refuse to practice
- Is re-writing worth your time?
- Why you need to do what makes you uncomfortable
- Preparing yourself mentally and emotionally
- Ariel and Lee share their bar exam essay experiences
- The importance of self-evaluation
- How to study the law to make your essays easier to write
- What the graders are really looking for
- How and why to take your timed practice tests
- How to make the bar exam graders’ job easy and get maximum points
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Thanks for this. I’ve written a few articles before, and I definitely agree with everything you said in your post. I have friends who are having trouble with their writing. I feel bad not being able to help them out. It’s much easier to write than to have to explain to them how it all works. It’s a good thing I found this blog fo yours. I’ll be sharing this post with them. I’m sure they’ll love it.