i failed the bar exam.. 

I didn’t even notice this 😂😂😂

Hi Grace, since you are not on Instagram right now, can I send you an email about this?

It's real and honest and kind of tame. I think I would have made a sailor blush in the same circumstances.

Hey Grace read “ the zen of passing the bar exam “ really good book to Hep You out . Don’t be so hard on yourself . The bar is really hard to pass . Study and take it again and you will pass 💕

I’m so sorry! I know how you feel. I didn’t go to school for law, but I graduated nursing school in November and I took my boards (state exam) and I found out 2 days later that I failed and I was so devastated and felt so embarrassed and like an idiot because I worked so hard and did so good in school and I study so much especially for that test. What made it worse was seeing my friends from my class post on FB that they passed and it would make me cry all over again cause I felt it should have been me posting I passed; I’m happy for them but it sucks too. They make you wait 45 days before you can test again and it sucks having to wait, but I study a little bit at a time everyday and hopefully in January I will pass🙏🏻.I know you can pass it this next time girl!

Passing the LSAT is when you study hard,if you can't study or you don't have time for your studies I'd advise you get yourself help like Mr Thomas

Talking of help with LSAT exams Thomas is a genius. I never believed it was possible to see my exam questions with the answer,his awesome🎉

I have a cousin who never studied much,we studied together but she gives most of her time to her phone than studies after writing the LSAT test last month she passed and I failed😣, I asked her how she did it, just found out she got her help from Mr Thomas ..

Sometimes hard work doesn’t pay you have to back it up with smartness🤓, I think your cousin understood that perfectly

Please does anyone know who this Mr Thomas is? I really need to speak with him I’m frustrated

A judge? Oh my!

Do you have any recommendations on prep courses? Ive come across quimbee. Any recommendations would be much appreciated

@@nicki35able000 use adaptibar (since their questions are actually written by bar examiners) and then practice your essays, do research on the actual Bar exam, I firmly believe I passed because of the stuff I didnt do and not the stuff I did. By the time you take the Bar you should know your strengths and weaknesses. By now you also know how you study to get results. Do not change your entire routine just because a program says too. I personally bought outlines from a tutor, studied those and used adaptibar, and then practiced essays, I didnt waste time on video lectures or what the program said (because I knew what worked for me) and I certainly didn't study for 8 hours a day. I made sure to do something Bar related everyday, sometimes that was only an hour, other times 4-5 hours but again that was me. Barbri had great practice essays and books. Hope this helps 🍻

I needed this.

I so needed this comment today

Thank you. Just failed, needed to read this.

Came here to say this!!!

@@daisy-wt9pd hater coment.....

@Joel Reese I disagree but at least she’s known unlike you

​@Polly Gato That's immediately who I thought of when I wrote my response! I had just started my freshman year of college 1.0 when that hit the news. Some of the news media was horrible about it, but lawyers everywhere came out of the woodwork to say that the NY Bar is extremely difficult and that most lawyers need to take it 2 and 3 times. That stuck with me.

@Joel Reese what a dumb comment. michelle obama also went to harvard law school...

FACTS!!!!! 👏🏾

SO MUCH THIS!! I know brilliant people who are horrible test takers, can't write essays worth crap but can explain things so everyone understand them (because they do). My GRE had an essay that was tailor made for me. I got a 4.5, when it definitely was a 5 or 5.5 out of 6. I could have paid for them to individually review/rescore my exam, but it wasn't necessary. I got into my doctoral program. 1. You're taking it in such an unknown situation. What you have in your favor right now: 2. You're working in the field, and that will help make some of the information more relatable. 3. If you have to take it online again, you're studying where you will be taking it - which helps retrieval. 4. You don't have the distractors of job searching, moving, or a wedding competing for your attention. 5. You also have coworkers who are probably telling you that they didn't pass the first time AND probably extremely helpful in how to deal with taking the test a second time. We know you're amazing at what you do and the test isn't going to change that. Adding that you have the right idea. Focus your attention to the areas that you aren't comfortable with in this second round. I went through the Kaplan GRE book once, then decided that I needed a refresher on math, since it'd been over 20 years since I'd taken a math class. $200 well spent. All my energies went into studying math, and I'm shocked that I scored within 10 points of my writing score. (I write professionally as part of my job). Then in the last two weeks, take the multiple choice practice exams to refresh your memory on the other topics. It will be enough. If you want more coaching on studying, I build online courses for colleges, universities and now the federal government, happy to give you some pointers.

YES to this!!

Came here to say the same thing! I know you're sad now, but just remember that you WILL triumph! We're all here for you.

I despise standardized tests

Absolutely agree with you on everything!

All of this ^

hi Ari! thank you for sharing your experience! I'm currently studying for the CA bar. How many essays do you feel like you practiced for each subject? I've done about 6 essays / subject open book, hoping to do more closed book next. But not sure how many really is enough haha. Congrats to both you and your husband!

@@DeepaK-bz3ss I was a repeater and passed the October exam. I was a few points from passing under the previous score so I knew what it would take to pass for the newer, lower score. You want to transition to closed book essays. Try and find essays that have different issues. I had essay days and mbe essays. I tried to mimic the exam format as much as possible. So on essay days, I would study/memorize one hour in the morning. Then I would do 3 essays, closed book. Take a lunch break. Then I would compare my essays to bar website or a bar essay bank. You really need to compare them critically. See the differences in organization, rule statements, and most importantly the analysis section. After doing that, I would then get 2 essays, issue spot, organize and maybe include the rule statements to further test my memory. Then I would look at the essay analysis of each one of the issue spotted essays. That way I hit 5 essays which is the max I would do on the exam. On MBE days, I would similarly study for one hour reviewing material or memorizing. I tended to memorize both in the morning and evening before I finished for the day. But I said I mimicked the bar. I did 100 mbes, broke them down into 50 question sections like the bar. It sucked. Especially at the beginning when i was doing one subject at a time. Later when you were mixing up the subjects, it was much more tolerable. But you really need to build the stamina by doing MBEs, in California, it's 50% of your score. The higher the score the more wiggle room you have on the writing requirement which is so subjective. Once I finished the MBEs, I would grab lunch then I would go through each question, not just the ones you got wrong. And I would review each question to make sure I got the right issue, right rule and analysis. If I missed any of those, I would make a flashcard. I would make the flashcard as specific as possible. The mbes have very narrow issues. Analysis can have multiple parts so you need to do that efficiently. I ended up doing 2,500 MBEs, like i said it's half the exam. One a week or so, I would do a PT on the MBE day. There are videos on youtube on how to do an online PT that were extremely helpful. Check them out. I find that people really don't spend enough time on the PT. That plus the MBE is close to 63% of your entire score. So why not spend time understand how to excel on the MBE and PT. For essays, I did 5 essays per subject. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but I spent hours reviewing them. By the time you get to final review, you can issue spot more to get more exposure. But I find for essays, you really need spend more quality time with them. Really understand how to separate major, minor and nonissues.. Being able to lengthen your arguments for major issues is where you will get a ton of your points. For Memorizing- do what works best for you. But on the essays, look to see where issues will require longer rule statements. Sometimes they look like rule paragraphs. That's why I tended to memorize rules in rule blocks. Only apply what was needed, but if you had longer rules it was much easier to write better analysis since you will be discussing the various parts of your rule. In a week, I would do 3 essay days, 15 essays total. 3 MBE days, 300 mbes and 1 PT. I found PTs to be very doable, no memorizing rules, once you understand how to read the case and file quickly and how to organize them, they are actually quite fun. I know its weird but its the only part of the bar exam that actually feels like legal work. It was 6 days of studying with one day off. That day off was badly needed since you will be running on fumes and possibly burn out which I did the previous bar cycle. Hope this helps, I wanted to add this in case anyone is looking through this and wants a different type of schedule. Lastly, I didn't watch videos, they are a waste of time. But you must have some kind of substantive material that is a go to resource for clarification. Outlines are great but often times you will need a more in depth resource to help you understand. But the best way to learn to apply the law both and critically assess your work. If you can, see if you can get someone else to review your progress. That can help a lot. I wish everyone luck taking the bar exam, it's definitely doable. But its quality not quantity. Take time off to decompress so you can try and be fresh before the exam. You can do it!

@@efrennava9743 Wow! This is SO helpful thank you SO much! When you said you did 5 essays, did you do all of those closed book? I've done full 6 essays for ALL the subjects open book so far. I was going to shift to 2 essays/subject closed book next week and then spend the last week just doing some issue spotting on a few more essays. Is that a good plan? And when you spent 1-3 hours memorizing before an essay, did you look in advance of the essay to figure out which general issues to memorize before you tackled the essay? Or did you just memorize like all of civil procedure before an essay? Lastly, what score were you scoring at by the end for the MBEs before you took the test? I'm currently at 68-72%, hoping to get to 75% before the exam. I've been doing what you said in terms of reviewing the ones I do in depth etc. Hoping to do longer sets of 100 MBEs to build stamina. Really appreciate your advice kind stranger!

thank you so much!!

I was going to say this!! There was SO much going on this year. Plus NY going back and forth with them doing the exam or not.

Good luck

Thank you so much!!💛💛💛

What program did you use! I’m taking in WA the 3rd time and I’d love any advice

Agree with this! Mindset is HUGE in succeeding after failing the first time.

Preach! Except for appealing scores, doesn’t automatically mean they’ll award more! A girl in my class appealed hers after missing by 2 points, and they DEDUCTED MORE the second score.

@@daisy-wt9pd unnecessary

@@daisy-wt9pd . . . they are impeccably successful women no matter if you qualify them as classy

@@daisy-wt9pd Michelle Obama is an INCREDIBLE woman and was an amazingly educated and brilliant First Lady. Don’t come for her!

I didn't know that! They're so incredible, I love them. ♥️

@Joel Reese It's funny bc I know their names but I don't know who Joel Reese is....

Can you please share what to study harder?)

@@t.j.7908 I just reviewed my score report and focused on my lowest point topics.

Good luck girl, I believe in you!

I took the LSAT three times. Finally got the score I needed on the third try. Just finished my 1L semester. You can do it!!

Taking my LSAT for the third time in Jan as well! You got this :)

Good luck! Take more practice tests under timed conditions, and it'll be a cakewalk.

This will also be my third time in January and I feel this pain on a whole other level!

Literally crying with you. Sending you so so much love, Grace. 💗

how is studying going?

Did you pass?

Is your dad hiring 👀 (serious inquiry)

@@xoxovicky101 lol

I agree, I would want to retake in July in better hopes of it not being online...but I can understand not wanting that weight all those months. Plus once your employed and maybe there is more of a time crunch.

Why not take it in Feb? And then if you don't pass, do July, too?

@@Vibez-o5k If you take in Feb, are you going to wait until the next result cycle? If you do, it doesn't leave enough time to really study for July if need be. Go for July and write essay after essay until then.

Top lawyers in the country? Wow congrats!

Good luck!