As the exam approaches, a lot of students get increasingly nervous about the MEE. Why? You have to recall a bunch of rules and you feel like you couldn’t possibly know them all. Students fear that moment when they read an essay and they draw a blank and don’t know the rules it is testing. …
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The MEE can be frustrating, especially in the first half of bar preparation, because you are learning a lot of law and are moving at a fast pace, all while trying to memorize to feel comfortable writing essays. However, as I’ve said before, even if you feel like you don’t have anything memorized and like …
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Practicing essays closed books is likely one of the scarier things you could be thinking about right now. Our outlines and our books are like security blankets when we are practicing essays. “I’ll just look up this one thing” is a common thought that runs through our heads. But – this is a critical week …
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Let’s talk about essay writing. You’re in week two of bar prep, and the essay practice has not been intense at all yet – but it will be soon. So, this blog workshop is focused on issue spotting in essay writing. HANDLING MAJOR ISSUES On bar exam essays, there’s a difference between a major and …
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