The One Thing You Should Do To Guarantee You’re Ready To Pass The Bar Exam This July

If you want to give yourself the edge when preparing to take the bar exam, consider adding a Maximizer to your regular bar review course. It’s a fact: the tricks you learn will get you extra points on the test.

By Marino Legal Academy

onMarch 17, 2015 at 2:51 PMMarch 17, 2015 at 3:39 PM

Students pass the bar exam in GPA order at graduation; that means those at the top of their class almost all succeed. However, the pass rate drops as the GPA drops and those students at the bottom are likely to fail. This happens because most students prepare for the bar exam in the same exact way: they take one of the big bar review courses. When everyone is studying in the same manner, no one has the advantage. Reviewing the individual subjects being tested on the exam and practicing lots of questions is sufficient to ensure that a student in the top 10% of the class is ready for the bar. But it is not enough to ensure that students who have not excelled during law school can beat their class rank.

So, what’s the answer for the student who is not at the top of the class?

To stand out from the crowd, the key is extra preparation to get additional points on each section of the test. These “tricks” include showing students how to get points on an essay question even if they are not sure what law is being tested. For the MBE section, it includes training to get to all of the questions without rushing, as well as how to pick which multiple choice alternative is correct when two of them appear to be right. No big bar review course will show you how to do this because no big bar review course knows how. Big bar review courses are put together to review the law. Your favorite law school professor may be teaching you torts, but there are no bar exam experts on staff to teach you how to get points when you do not know the law.

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From Pilot and Above The Law

I have been training students to pass the bar exam for over 40 years and was coined the “go to guy for students that need to pass the bar” by the New York Law Journal. My Marino Maximizers are a great example of the type of program that will teach you the “tricks” you need to pass the exam. I offer Maximizers specifically for the MBE, administered in all 50 states, plus Maximizers for the local state section for the New York, New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania Bar Exams.

It may seem like I am saying something radical, but in reality, the majority of law students for decades would take extra programs like this in addition to their regular bar review course. In the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, most students took what were then termed “supplemental” programs that gave them skills and tricks to raise their score. In the early 2000’s, these programs became less popular due to the extreme expense of bar review courses as they tripled in price from the decade before. But as you may have already heard, supplemental programs are becoming very popular again, especially with the bar pass rates falling in most states.

If you want to give yourself the edge when preparing to take the bar exam, consider adding a Maximizer to your regular bar review course. It’s a fact: the tricks you learn will get you extra points on the test. This is what will make a student who is not at the top of their law school class perform like one on the day of the bar exam.