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Lessons learned from studying for two bar exams can help students study.
Two bar exams. Ten weeks of study for ten hours a day. Twenty-seven subjects. Twenty-four hours of testing. One long summer.
My brain would shut down at the nine hour mark, my eyes scanning the same set of words in the same sentence, the same set of words in the same sentence, the same set of wo…until I put the books away and went home. It broke in week eight; I spent two days outside throwing a tennis ball at the library wall, chatting with anyone who walked by.
Tuesday was New York; five essays divided into twenty, a legal analysis exercise, and fifty multiple choice questions. Wednesday was a 200-question multiple choice test that counted toward both states. Thursday was New Jersey; six essays.
The bar is pass/fail. Some students add pressure to their studies, mistakenly assuming some arbitrary portion of students must fail. Having been evaluated on a curve for years, it’s hard to believe the bar is different, even when the people running the test tell you so. I listened.
For the first time in my life, I was rooting for a D.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-cross-examined-life/202103/how-beat-any-test