When You Enroll in Personal Bar Prep, Your Program of Study Will Involve:

Our program is based on a philosophy of learning-by-doing.  This philosophy gives rise to a personalized approach to preparing our students for the bar exam. Practice + Feedback + Focused Knowledge + Encouragement = Success.  Here's how it all breaks down:
 

Small Group Meetings

• These small group meetings will form the heart of your bar Review program

• Groups will be no larger than ten students

• Your group will be led by Jay Chavkin, a bar tutor and lecturer with many years of experience working with law students preparing for the California bar exam

• Twice a week, you will review assigned practice essays, discussing them in tremendous detail, as well as meticulously dissecting multiple choice questions together

• All of your questions about the law will be answered during these small group sessions—something that can’t be said for large-scale bar review programs

• Any questions that may arise during the week can be addressed in emails to Jay and will be answered promptly

 Private Tutoring

• Some students may benefit from the additional personal  attention of private tutoring, either exclusively or as a supplement to the Personal Bar Prep program. If you have an interest in these services, click here.

Learning By Doing

• Writing practice essays, dissecting and discussing them are the core of the program—by doing this throughout the course of the program, you will have an understanding of the patterns of exam questions utilized by the bar and be ready for them come exam time

• Full-group writing workshops will teach you how to prepare essays, step by step, that will satisfy Bar graders

• Three full-group essay exams will be given under true bar exam conditions—and afterwards, you’ll participate in a discussion of the answers and gain instruction in how exam graders would have assessed those answers

• Full-group performance test workshops that will teach you the ins and outs of preparing effectively for this portion of the bar exam

• You’ll take exams including performance tests that allow you to experience the conditions, assess your readiness and give you the practice you need to fully prepare you for the bar

Substantive Lectures and Materials

• You will attend fourteen substantive lectures in seven sessions

• All lectures will be live and will also be available real-time by interactive video stream online

• Each lecture handles all the law you need to know on each subject for the bar exam—and nothing more

• You won’t find any large lecture halls where you sit anonymously—the full group for the session is relatively small

• Questions are welcomed if you need further clarification during the lecture

• All necessary outline books, practice essay exam question books, a performance exam workbook, and a small group workbook with all essay and MBE question homework assignments are included in the course.

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