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An Effective Performance Test Method

Survey courses don't give you effective Performance Test method
People fail the California Bar Exam because of their performance tests. Of the people who make it into re-read (an initial total scaled score of 1390 to 1465), three-fourths of them fail when their exams are re-read. And of those who fail, most fail because of their performance tests.

The biggest complaint about survey courses I hear from those who failed is about the performance test part of the course. Basically, the complaint is that it was worthless. It did not help students to know how to tackle or write a PT. Here is an illustration. Virtually every PT gives instructions on how to format the answer, sometimes even giving examples of the format. The bar examiners are emphatically not testing on legal drafting know-how; that’s why they provide the format!

Despite that obvious signal from the bar examiners, most courses emphasize how to format particular types of legal documents—precisely the thing the bar examiners indicates is not important!

When your course knows so little about the performance test that the only thing it trains you for is the part of the exam that needs no training, you’ve got to worry that the “method” is merely misdirection and won’t help you to pass the PT’s at all.

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
Performance tests are evaluated on legal reasoning. Legal reasoning means applying facts to a test and weighing whether the facts meet the test. This means that a PT course should teach you how to find the issues, how to find the rules, and how to organize the rules under the issues. And it has to teach you how to do this efficiently, in three hours.

The other side of every problem is an opportunity. If your competitors on the bar don’t know how to do PT’s and you do you have a big advantage and greatly increase your chances of passing.

When I was a grader, I used to take performance tests under exam conditions for the State Bar when the test was under development. I later graded some of the same PT’s that I took as exams. I have taken every single performance test that has ever been on the bar. I understand what the examiners are looking for and I teach you a simple approach that works on every PT. BarBoost contains the performance tests for four bar exams and my explanation, analysis and answer for each. I also grade four PTs in BarBoost.

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