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Studying for the bar exam is about more than memorizing the law.

Studying for the bar exam is about more than memorizing the law. It is about learning how to apply that law to essays and multiple choice questions. All bar review courses provide you all or nearly all the laws and rules that will be tested on the exam.   If that was all students needed to pass, then the pass rates should be significantly higher, since most students spend two months doing nothing else than memorizing these rules. But this is not the case. Bar passage rates are falling and this is not because students are not studying enough of the rules tested on the exam.   This is because students are struggling with how to apply these rules to score the points they need to pass.

If you did not pass the exam, do not blame yourself. Chances are you worked hard and you do know the law. You just need to learn how to use it, a skill that is unfortunately not taught in the major bar review courses. The bar exam is as much about skill and strategy as it is about knowledge of the law. Those who pass do so not because they knew more than those who did not – in fact, it is possible they knew less! What they did know however was how to answer questions strategically even if they were not sure what the correct law is and how to apply what they did know to maximize their score.

Consider your options carefully when you decide on a bar review course, whether you are a first time exam taker or a retaker. Does the bar review course teach you skills and strategies for scoring high on the exam or does it merely give you hundreds of pages of law without any guidance? Does the bar review course provide you in-depth explanations and tutorials of the answers to practice essays and MBE questions or does it merely provide thousands of questions with minimal explanation as to why an answer is wrong or correct? Does the bar review course tell you to create your own condensed notes of those subjects that you think are likely to appear on the exam or does it provide you with summaries of the rules and laws most likely to appear based on its expertise and experience in the industry (how can you be expected to know what might appear, after all)?

Marino Bar Review does not merely throw the law at you.   It includes in-depth skills workshops on essay writing and multiple choice questions, as well as comprehensive explanations of assigned practice essays and MBEs. It also provides you Memory Boosters™ – condensed documents of 20-30 pages with the rules and law most likely to appear on the exam, based on Professor Marino’s decades of experience studying the Bar Exam and providing bar preparation. You will do more than memorize the law; you will learn how to score points with it.  Marino Bar Review does more than teach you the law on the bar exam. It trains you to pass.

Marino Bar Review offers the only bar review course designed specifically for students retaking the New York and New Jersey bar exams. To learn more, click here.

If you were unsuccessful on the February 2015 Bar Exam, send your score report to info@marinolegal.com and we will be happy to review your scores free of charge.

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