Barbri paced program question? Forum

[nygrrrl]

Has anyone figured out a way to download the Barbri videos in advance so you can watch them when you don't have Internet? I looked around and it seemed as if we couldn't.

You can use their mobile app to download them to your phone, which works pretty well. I haven't found a way to do it on a computer, though.

Ya, I've done it through the app for my phone/iPad, can't do it on my laptop.

[duskfall]

should I be worried that about 50% of the time on the stupid sets I'm 1-3 questions short of the goal score?? Studying is such a mind fuck

I'm wondering this too, but I am always ± 2 of the target score. Thoughts?

Where can you find the target scores at? I haven't seen these

first few pages of the practice question book.

[alphagamma]

Has anyone figured out a way to download the Barbri videos in advance so you can watch them when you don't have Internet? I looked around and it seemed as if we couldn't.

You can use their mobile app to download them to your phone, which works pretty well. I haven't found a way to do it on a computer, though.

Ya, I've done it through the app for my phone/iPad, can't do it on my laptop.

To download Barbri videos on my laptop, I use the Video Downloader Professional extension for Chrome. It's worked perfectly so far.

[nygrrrl]

To download Barbri videos on my laptop, I use the Video Downloader Professional extension for Chrome. It's worked perfectly so far.

Thanks. Using Chrome with the site seems to be the way to go (it also makes it easy to speed up the videos.)

[belowthelaw57]

Has anyone noticed the lack of comprehensive information for state distinctions? It's only available in the Conviser for MBE subjects.

Also, at least for NY, the NY Multiple choice cover things that we didn't learn in lecture and that are not in the barebones New York Distinctions section they provide.

[Borg]

To be honest, I thought the Barbri course in general was organized really poorly and had a ton of stuff that was not worthwhile. I watched the lectures and filled out the notes which I found to be minimally useful. I started outlining on my own but then just started reading my friends' old ones who had taken it before me after like two days of that. I studied them intensely, along with the Conviser book (READ THAT THING!) and that was pretty much it.

I used Adaptibar for the MBE practice which I found tremendously useful. Between heavy sessions of outline review, Conviser, and Adaptibar I was more than prepared and killed it easily.

[5ky]

Has anyone noticed the lack of comprehensive information for state distinctions? It's only available in the Conviser for MBE subjects.

Also, at least for NY, the NY Multiple choice cover things that we didn't learn in lecture and that are not in the barebones New York Distinctions section they provide.

NY MC is stupid and you shouldn't worry about it. Also, for MBE subjects, there's shockingly little in the way of actual distinctions that actually matter. I would suggest just focusing on the MBE for those six subjects and deal with NY distinctions later. They are pretty easy to learn. I essentially just went through lecture handouts and make separate cheat sheets of NY distinctions for each applicable subject. They were pretty short, 1-4 pages.

Unlike Borg I thought the CMR was pretty useless, and think you can easily pass the bar simply by memorizing the lecture handouts. But that's because there's no one right way to study for the bar and what's most important is to do what's easiest for you.

[johnB86]

Has anyone figured out a way to download the Barbri videos in advance so you can watch them when you don't have Internet? I looked around and it seemed as if we couldn't.

You can use their mobile app to download them to your phone, which works pretty well. I haven't found a way to do it on a computer, though.

Ya, I've done it through the app for my phone/iPad, can't do it on my laptop.

From a post on how to speed up videos (I used method 1 last year and it was great):

Two methods I've heard of, one free but a little more complicated (and requires a smartphone), one around 30 bucks but otherwise easier:

Method 1 (iPhone-specific, since that's what I did):

1. Download iFunbox (http://www.i-funbox.com/) onto your computer
2. Download Barbri app onto your phone
3. Download lectures in the Barbri app onto your phone
4. Use iFunbox to transfer the lectures from your phone to your computer
5. Watch at faster speed in VLC Player

Method 2 (I haven't actually done this, so no guarantees, but I've seen it a few places):

1. Download FLV Grabber (http://www.flvgrabber.com/)
2. Use FLV Grabber to rip the videos from the Internet to your computer
3. Watch at faster speed in VLC Player

I poked around for a while to see if I could find a Firefox extension that did the same thing as FLV Grabber, but I couldn't find anything that worked with the Barbri site.

[lmr]

To be honest, I thought the Barbri course in general was organized really poorly and had a ton of stuff that was not worthwhile. I watched the lectures and filled out the notes which I found to be minimally useful. I started outlining on my own but then just started reading my friends' old ones who had taken it before me after like two days of that. I studied them intensely, along with the Conviser book (READ THAT THING!) and that was pretty much it.

I used Adaptibar for the MBE practice which I found tremendously useful. Between heavy sessions of outline review, Conviser, and Adaptibar I was more than prepared and killed it easily.

Do you recall what you did for Ks? The lecture material insufficient for so many MBE questions-did you actually create your own outline w the cmr material and the lecture material or did your friend do that [based on the outline you used]? Or do you just go back to the cmr the entire time and memorize from that?

[nygrrrl]

From a post on how to speed up videos (I used method 1 last year and it was great):

Two methods I've heard of, one free but a little more complicated (and requires a smartphone), one around 30 bucks but otherwise easier:

Method 1 (iPhone-specific, since that's what I did):

1. Download iFunbox (http://www.i-funbox.com/) onto your computer
2. Download Barbri app onto your phone
3. Download lectures in the Barbri app onto your phone
4. Use iFunbox to transfer the lectures from your phone to your computer
5. Watch at faster speed in VLC Player

Method 2 (I haven't actually done this, so no guarantees, but I've seen it a few places):

1. Download FLV Grabber (http://www.flvgrabber.com/)
2. Use FLV Grabber to rip the videos from the Internet to your computer
3. Watch at faster speed in VLC Player

I poked around for a while to see if I could find a Firefox extension that did the same thing as FLV Grabber, but I couldn't find anything that worked with the Barbri site.

TY!!!!

[Borg]

To be honest, I thought the Barbri course in general was organized really poorly and had a ton of stuff that was not worthwhile. I watched the lectures and filled out the notes which I found to be minimally useful. I started outlining on my own but then just started reading my friends' old ones who had taken it before me after like two days of that. I studied them intensely, along with the Conviser book (READ THAT THING!) and that was pretty much it.

I used Adaptibar for the MBE practice which I found tremendously useful. Between heavy sessions of outline review, Conviser, and Adaptibar I was more than prepared and killed it easily.

Do you recall what you did for Ks? The lecture material insufficient for so many MBE questions-did you actually create your own outline w the cmr material and the lecture material or did your friend do that [based on the outline you used]? Or do you just go back to the cmr the entire time and memorize from that?

Yeah contracts I remember being the slipperiest subject, which is weird because it was my best in law school and I'm a banker now and I read contracts all the time. I read my friend's lecture outline really closely many many times, and I also read the shit out of Conviser on it and also did a ton of practice questions through Adaptibar. I really liked Adaptibar because it compares you directly to all other users and let's you chart your progress by how you're doing in each subject rather than simple completion progress, and all the questions are actual MBE questions. Was worth it to me just for the peace of mind. Also, I don't think there's any particular advantage to doing your own outline, but I never have thought that. I always used random outlines in law school and rarely if ever made anything myself, so that was a style that worked for me. If you didn't need to make your own before, you don't need to start now. Don't let the Barbri scare tactics fuck you over.

[5ky]

I also thought contracts was the hardest subject. I think it requires more theory/understanding than just rote memorization like most of the others.

[adonai]

I also thought contracts was the hardest subject. I think it requires more theory/understanding than just rote memorization like most of the others.

Yeah, it is one of those subjects where you have to know how it applies rather than just simple relation of facts to law like the others.

[greenjuice]

this is for purposes of downloading to your hard drive to watch without a wifi connection, right? (i don't want to point out the obvious, but in case anyone was wondering, there's a speed up function on the bottom right if you watch them on the barbri website)

From a post on how to speed up videos (I used method 1 last year and it was great):

Two methods I've heard of, one free but a little more complicated (and requires a smartphone), one around 30 bucks but otherwise easier:

Method 1 (iPhone-specific, since that's what I did):

1. Download iFunbox (http://www.i-funbox.com/) onto your computer
2. Download Barbri app onto your phone
3. Download lectures in the Barbri app onto your phone
4. Use iFunbox to transfer the lectures from your phone to your computer
5. Watch at faster speed in VLC Player

Method 2 (I haven't actually done this, so no guarantees, but I've seen it a few places):

1. Download FLV Grabber (http://www.flvgrabber.com/)
2. Use FLV Grabber to rip the videos from the Internet to your computer
3. Watch at faster speed in VLC Player

I poked around for a while to see if I could find a Firefox extension that did the same thing as FLV Grabber, but I couldn't find anything that worked with the Barbri site.

TY!!!!

[nygrrrl]

this is for purposes of downloading to your hard drive to watch without a wifi connection, right? (i don't want to point out the obvious, but in case anyone was wondering, there's a speed up function on the bottom right if you watch them on the barbri website)

Dude. I cannot find any thing like this (the speed up function I have on my PC) on my macbook when going through the website. Not with Firefox, anyway. I have a couple of friends who've made it work on their macbooks by using Chrome, but the only thing I've had success with so far is DLing to my iPhone or iPad. (If you know a workaround for the macbook in Firefox, sure would love to know it - thx!)

[greenjuice]

this is for purposes of downloading to your hard drive to watch without a wifi connection, right? (i don't want to point out the obvious, but in case anyone was wondering, there's a speed up function on the bottom right if you watch them on the barbri website)

Dude. I cannot find any thing like this (the speed up function I have on my PC) on my macbook when going through the website. Not with Firefox, anyway. I have a couple of friends who've made it work on their macbooks by using Chrome, but the only thing I've had success with so far is DLing to my iPhone or iPad. (If you know a workaround for the macbook in Firefox, sure would love to know it - thx!)

I'm a noob and don't know how to post pictures... I found the buttons for adding vine/youtube but not an image? Lulz. Here's a screenshot instead: http://tinypic.com/r/21nk5ya/8. Bottom right, if you hover over the speedometer looking thing you can set the playback rate between 0.75 and 2.0.

Hopefully this is what you were talking about and I'm not just telling people what they already know It works for me on chrome/safari on my macbook (I don't have firefox on this one), hopefully it works on firefox too. I think it's part of their video-playing software.

[nygrrrl]

I'm a noob and don't know how to post pictures... I found the buttons for adding vine/youtube but not an image? Lulz. Here's a screenshot instead: http://tinypic.com/r/21nk5ya/8. Bottom right, if you hover over the speedometer looking thing you can set the playback rate between 0.75 and 2.0.

Hopefully this is what you were talking about and I'm not just telling people what they already know It works for me on chrome/safari on my macbook (I don't have firefox on this one), hopefully it works on firefox too. I think it's part of their video-playing software.

Thanks Green! (We should make that screen shot part of a "how to Barbri" post for future takers, lol.) Ya, when you load the Barbri site through Firefox... no speedometer thing. Crazy, right? Anyway, at least it works in Safari and Chrome.

[MoneyMay]

Is anyone using BarMax or any other resource for more MBE questions? I want to do as many as I can get my hands on but don't know where to buy them from. Any suggestions?

[rawrab]

Is anyone using BarMax or any other resource for more MBE questions? I want to do as many as I can get my hands on but don't know where to buy them from. Any suggestions?

I'm using adaptibar, seems pretty good so far

[jarofsoup]

Are there additional MBE questions that we can work on that do not overlap with the MPQ and other paced program assignments??

[MoneyMay]

Are there additional MBE questions that we can work on that do not overlap with the MPQ and other paced program assignments??

Not sure... Idk if everything they have is eventually assigned or what.

[adonai]

Are there additional MBE questions that we can work on that do not overlap with the MPQ and other paced program assignments??

Check the website on the sidebar. They have actual MBEs.

[northwood]

Is anyone using BarMax or any other resource for more MBE questions? I want to do as many as I can get my hands on but don't know where to buy them from. Any suggestions?

I'm using barmax . It seems pretty good thus far but some questions don't have an explanation...

[Stringer6]

What percent is everyone at? 26 here

[LSATNightmares]

What percent is everyone at? 26 here

I think that might needlessly stress people out. It's about quality rather than quantity.