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study time for the bar?
Barbri recommends 8-10 hrs a day, 7 days a week. I am so far behind, it is not funny (studied only 42 hrs last week). How much time is everyone putting in per week?
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Not even close to that.memo2partner wrote:Barbri recommends 8-10 hrs a day, 7 days a week. I am so far behind, it is not funny (studied only 42 hrs last week). How much time is everyone putting in per week?
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LOL wtf? It's June bro. Graze the material, if that. You'll forget it anyway. June is just to learn shit you don't already know. You don't get HARDCORE until July 4th.
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Well, maybe July 5th? July 4th is for BBQ.Bronx Bum wrote:LOL wtf? It's June bro. Graze the material, if that. You'll forget it anyway. June is just to learn shit you don't already know. You don't get HARDCORE until July 4th.
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All depends on which state you are taking it for. Generally, CA and NY require more prep than others.
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I dunno man, my TX friends seem to have more work than I do. They even have weekend lectures.DwightSchruteFarms wrote:All depends on which state you are taking it for. Generally, CA and NY require more prep than others.
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Ugh, that's brutaltfer2222 wrote:They even have weekend lectures.
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+1. All the real learning happens in panic mode between 7/4 and the bar.Bronx Bum wrote:LOL wtf? It's June bro. Graze the material, if that. You'll forget it anyway. June is just to learn shit you don't already know. You don't get HARDCORE until July 4th.
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That Oil & Gas and Coomunity Propert and MPT shit.tfer2222 wrote:I dunno man, my TX friends seem to have more work than I do. They even have weekend lectures.DwightSchruteFarms wrote:All depends on which state you are taking it for. Generally, CA and NY require more prep than others.
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What's it like in other states? In TX, there's the MBE + 12 unique essay topics (no overlap with MBE) + MPT + TX Civ Pro/Evid + TX Crim Pro/Evidtfer2222 wrote:I dunno man, my TX friends seem to have more work than I do. They even have weekend lectures.DwightSchruteFarms wrote:All depends on which state you are taking it for. Generally, CA and NY require more prep than others.
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CA is MBE + Biz Associations, CA/Fed Civ Pro, Community Property, CA/ABA Pro Resp, Remedies, CA Wills & Trusts, CA Evidencef0bolous wrote:What's it like in other states? In TX, there's the MBE + 12 unique essay topics (no overlap with MBE) + MPT + TX Civ Pro/Evid + TX Crim Pro/Evidtfer2222 wrote:I dunno man, my TX friends seem to have more work than I do. They even have weekend lectures.DwightSchruteFarms wrote:All depends on which state you are taking it for. Generally, CA and NY require more prep than others.
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I'm really annoyed that 50+ is tied for first place. Gunners.
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I'll start reporting my Paced progress to help other people feel better. 11% today. Looks like I'm supposed to be around 45-50%.
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NY is MBE + MPT + 5 Essays + 50 NY MCf0bolous wrote:What's it like in other states? In TX, there's the MBE + 12 unique essay topics (no overlap with MBE) + MPT + TX Civ Pro/Evid + TX Crim Pro/Evidtfer2222 wrote:I dunno man, my TX friends seem to have more work than I do. They even have weekend lectures.DwightSchruteFarms wrote:All depends on which state you are taking it for. Generally, CA and NY require more prep than others.
The essays can technically cover 21 topics, but most are really small snippets of law, and according to Barbri, only about 10 are really substantially tested (a few of which overlap with MBE)
any other NY takers can correct me on this.
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I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
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BarBRI is a massive, massive flame.amk110 wrote:I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
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+1Mthesealocust wrote:BarBRI is a massive, massive flame.amk110 wrote:I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
The lectures are crap, the pre-lecture practice questions are crap. The outlines and MBE ?s are the only useful material. I think they design the course to scare/confuse you then rescue you. Downloading outlines and MBE ?s from the interwebs would be 99% as effective as the whole of Barbri. Im surprised firms pay for this shit.
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thesealocust wrote:BarBRI is a massive, massive flame.amk110 wrote:I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
Can you please elaborate and/or share what you did then? Because I'm feeling burned out and it's only the second week.
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Can't speak for him, but I don't think he was saying you shouldn't do Barbri, just that you shouldn't fall prey to their scaremongering or feel like you have to do everything they prescribe.neimanmarxist wrote:thesealocust wrote:BarBRI is a massive, massive flame.amk110 wrote:I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
Can you please elaborate and/or share what you did then? Because I'm feeling burned out and it's only the second week.
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Agreed! I'm doing online only and the program is filled with more crap than substance. Also, the lectures at the beginning of each topic start with a forty minute sales pitch for MORE crappy addons.Bronte wrote:Can't speak for him, but I don't think he was saying you shouldn't do Barbri, just that you shouldn't fall prey to their scaremongering or feel like you have to do everything they prescribe.neimanmarxist wrote:thesealocust wrote:BarBRI is a massive, massive flame.amk110 wrote:I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
Can you please elaborate and/or share what you did then? Because I'm feeling burned out and it's only the second week.
I've trimmed it to reading the outlines, doing mbe questions, then rinse/repeat.
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LOL 50+. 20, at most.
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This is exactly what I've been doing. Killing the MBE questions. Struggling a tad on the real property essaysswc65 wrote:
Agreed! I'm doing online only and the program is filled with more crap than substance. Also, the lectures at the beginning of each topic start with a forty minute sales pitch for MORE crappy addons.
I've trimmed it to reading the outlines, doing mbe questions, then rinse/repeat.
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Bronte wrote:Can't speak for him, but I don't think he was saying you shouldn't do Barbri, just that you shouldn't fall prey to their scaremongering or feel like you have to do everything they prescribe.neimanmarxist wrote:thesealocust wrote:BarBRI is a massive, massive flame.amk110 wrote:I can't believe BARBRI wants us doing 8-10 hours per day, 7 days per week. Even the Lord needed a day to rest.
Can you please elaborate and/or share what you did then? Because I'm feeling burned out and it's only the second week.
I know. I want to know which parts of BarBri other people ignored and still passed the bar. Because currently BarBri is subsidizing my paranoia rather heavily.
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10 per week if I'm lucky. I was probably in the 30-40 crowd when I studied the first time around (different state), and I think I had completed about 65% of the interactive paced program by the end. I passed by a lot. Hoping the extent to which I overstudied the first time and what little I remember now will account for the fact that I'm putting about a third as much time into it this time around, because I think it's pretty much impossible to study 40 hours a week and work in biglaw at the same time.
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I didn't take BarBRI, I studied using materials available on my bar's website and a condensed $99 course from baroutlines.com. It was about a month of hard studying and I spent a lot of time focused on the things most likely to be tested instead of taking a shotgun approached. Passed comfortably.
All summer people taking BarBRI bitched about the quality and consistency of the product. In particular, I felt like prepping for the essays via freely available material put me in better shape than the people who let BarBRI take care of them.
All summer people taking BarBRI bitched about the quality and consistency of the product. In particular, I felt like prepping for the essays via freely available material put me in better shape than the people who let BarBRI take care of them.
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