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Detailed exam feedback

Survey courses don't give you detailed exam feedback
First time takers don’t do enough practice exams, because their survey course misleads them into believing that learning the law is all that they need to pass. When first-timers get little or no feedback, they don’t place a value on doing more practice exams.

Learning the law is not all that is needed to pass in California, because the exam questions are subtle and don’t hand you the issues. The one-hour essay exams are very tightly timed, making practice essential. Studying the law without practicing exams is like going on a diet and never getting on the scale. How do you know if you understand the law well enough to reason about it? BarBoost balances the study plan by giving meaningful, generous feedback. See: Daily tips for bar study

Courses with 150 students can’t possibly give you the feedback you need. You get too few exams graded; the comments are sparse and they don’t give you specific direction. The grading is anonymous, so you can’t ask questions. Every exam is graded by a different person, so there is no consistency. The anonymous grader may or may not have had any experience actually grading the California bar exam. The biggest complaint people who have failed the bar is that the survey course didn’t alert them to a problem in their exam writing or didn’t tell them how to correct it.

Some courses come with old essay exams and “model” answers. A lot of these answers are wrong, or at least they contain wrong issues or are missing important issues. These answers are often just slight rewrites of the State Bar’s published answers. The Bar doesn’t represent the answers it publishes as “models.” The answers are answers that passed the exam, but they may contain wrong issues, wrong law, or be missing significant issues. For a first-timer to study from these answers is crazy making—like looking in a funhouse mirror to see what your figure looks like.

Are you at risk?
• Is English your second language?
• Did you attend law school in another country?
• Have you had trouble finishing essay exams on time in law school or college?
• Were you in the bottom half of your law school class?
• Do you have trouble beginning to write an exam answer?
• Is organization a big challenge?
• Have professors told you your writing needs improvement?
• Does your mind wander after short periods of reading or listening to lectures?
• Do you have or has anyone ever told you that you might have ADHD or dyslexia?
• Did you attend an unaccredited or California accredited law school?

BarBoost fills the void
The BarBoost course book teaches how to analyze and organize essay answers in every subject.

The BarBoost book gives you model answers all written by Vivian Dempsey, a former California bar exam essay and Performance Test grader. You can learn from these answers because you can rely on their accuracy.

Vivian Dempsey personally grades and critiques 11 essay exams and 4 Performance Tests. Her feedback tells you exactly what you are doing wrong and what you need to correct. It actually tells you what legal concepts you need more work on, as well.

For more info: info@BarBoost.com or phone (800) 949-PASS

Also see these related sites:
The Writing Edge and California Bar Exam Questions and Answers