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April 15, 2008
practice on multiple choice questions
For $26, you may practice actual old multiple choice questions and get annotated comments on your choices. go to www.ncbex.org and look for annotated preview of MBE. We strongly recommend this for everyone who did not take PMBR.
Posted by sschmitz at 04:38 PM
April 14, 2008
John Rekowski on the bar exam
Listen to Mr. John Rekowski, one of the Illinois bar examiners, speak to 3Ls on 2/15/2006 about the bar exam. Duration of audio: ~ 50 minutes.
Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar.
Posted by dmurley at 09:20 AM
April 13, 2008
can't get started studying for the bar? Keep putting off study?
If you just cannot get started or find every reason to put off studying or diong practice questions or writing an essay, listen to this 16-minute podcast on Avoiding Procrastination: http://davidmaister.com/podcasts/5/62/
Download it right now to your I-pod or other equipment. Listen while you take a break.
Or visit this blog entry: http://davidmaister.com/blog/18/.
Posted by sschmitz at 11:49 AM
April 12, 2008
Interview with Howard Oestry, class of 2006
Watch an interview with Howard Oestry, 06 grad, re studying for the bar exam. If you have a high-speed connection, you can click on the link and view it directly. Or you can right click on the link and select "Save target as" or "Save link as" from the menu that pops up to download it to your computer.
Posted by dmurley at 09:58 AM
Interview with Wylie Blair, class of 2005
Watch interview with Wylie Blair, 05 grad, re studying for the bar exam. If you have a high-speed connection, you can click on the link and view it directly. Or you can right click on the link and select "Save target as" or "Save link as" from the menu that pops up to download it to your computer.
Posted by dmurley at 06:01 AM
April 11, 2008
what are all those BarBri books?
BarBri gives you many books that are described in the Pacer program, p. 1 and in the BarBri handout from day one. They also give you access to the software as explained in the handout. If you are still confused, here is my take on the materials:
There are three books of outlines: (1) the Conviser mini-review, known as the short outline that contains only 60% of the material in the other book.
(2) the long outlines, so called because it is 8x14 and contains more material, are in two volumes: one labeled Illinois that covers the material for the essays subjects and one labeled multistate material for the multiple choice materials.
There is a lecture handout book to bring to the lectures - note it is usually perforated for easy tearing out if you wish.
There are several test books:
(1) Ill essays contains old bar exam questions and model answers for the Ill questions and for the afternoon MEE questions. This book will be a good friend to you.
(2) Practice questions: multistate testing. This is a book of sample MBE or multiple choice questions, arranged by category and arranged by introductory, intermediate and hard questions.
(3) MPT workbook: this contains a guide to how to attack the MPT problem and includes about 20 sample MPTs and sample answers.
(4) drills -- more multiple choice questions.
Posted by sschmitz at 02:48 PM