Pass the Bar! [Paperback]

Denise Riebe (Author), Michael Hunter Schwartz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1594601658 | ISBN-13: 978-1594601651

Pass the Bar! provides a comprehensive overview of the pre-bar review, bar review, and bar exam process. The authors demystify the bar exam process and take readers through the steps they need to follow to succeed.

Readers are given specific information about what to do during the year before their bar exams; checklists, exercises, and reflection questions; tips for studying and completing practice questions; and sample exam questions and answers to maximize their likelihood of bar exam success.

The book has been designed with several uses in mind:

As the text for a for-credit law school bar preparation course; As a supplemental text for an upper-level doctrinal course, allowing professors to build studentsÂ’ bar study skills in the context of learning a bar-tested subject; As a text for non-credit bar preparation workshops; or For studentsÂ’ independent study.

The authorsÂ’ recommendations are grounded in educational and psychological research as well as their personal experiences in designing programs and preparing thousands of students to pass their bar exams. Readers will find the text user-friendly and its recommendations straightforward and practical.

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"Once in awhile the perfect book comes along at the perfect time. Pass the Bar! is just such a book." --Professor Ruth Ann McKinney, Director of the Writing and Learning Resources Center, The University of North Carolina School of Law

About the Author

Denise Riebe teaches at Duke University School of Law and is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She has served as the Director of a national bar review company, and is the founder and owner of Pass the Bar!, a bar exam coaching and consulting company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press (December 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594601658
• ISBN-13: 978-1594601651
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great addition to a commercial study course and home study plan., December 14, 2009

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T. Bently Durant (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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I am a bar exam preparation teaching assistant at a law school. I passed the bar with plenty of room to spare on my first attempt, but teaching others to do the same has strained my abilities. I found this book in the law library, and it gives great advice.

People think of the bar exam as a test of memorization. But this is only part of it. The examiners want to test the examinees ability to reason just as much as their knowledge. This book has a lot of great content to help them improve their test taking and reasoning skills. When paired with a good commercial study course and a strong home study plan, a book such as this one can ensure that the student passes on the first attempt.

This book also offers good guidance for those who fail a bar exam. The best of the advice given includes seeking therapeutic help in overcoming the psychological obstacles that failing the exam creates.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not much...unless you are a REALLY lame organizer..., June 2, 2010

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sg "home fitness addict" (florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pass the Bar! (Paperback)

I bought this book as required reading for a class. IT was EXPENSIVE. And frankly a waste for me. If you really want help passing the bar focus, focus, focus. Just accept the fact if you want to pass the bar exam (this is my second)that you will need to spend a LOT of time studying, memorizing writing and doing MBE's. And I don't mean to just push yourself to your limit. I mean you push your self BEYOND YOUR current limit of S-T-u-d-y-i-n-g; not drinking. Get on eor two peeps that are committed like you SHOULD be and review together. And study A LOT more than you did in law school. If you want a good book buy 'Strategies & Tactics for the MBE' (Multistate Bar Exam) (Paperback) by Emmanuel instead. Start it 2 weeks before your bar prep class and study every. single. page. Oh yeah, get lots of sleep the month before the exam b/c you'll be getting less sleep the closer you get to D-day. But get 7 hours every chance you get.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy book for the bar exam., July 10, 2011

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This review is from: Pass the Bar! (Paperback)

It is a good book for the exam approach in general (I read it last week), but there is nothing new or useful to me.
It might be better for first or second time examinees. My next attempt is 2.12.