How To Pass The Bar Exam
You can pass the Bar exam. Trust me you can. The secret to passing the Bar, believe it or not, is nothing more than FOCUS! If you focus on passing the bar exam, you will do it! The power of focus is THE secret weapon that allows many "average" students to pass the Bar exam with flying colors.
How do you develop this power of focus? It's simple. You develop the power of focus with a simple 4-step formula:
1) Decide what your most important task is
2) Cut out all distractions
3) Do the task to completion
4) Repeat steps one through three
You can use this formula immediately. Let's say that you are having trouble with Property, one of every applicant's favorite bar exam subjects. You know you should do it, but you keep putting it off. Here's what to do:
1) Decide to take a Property practice test
2) Cut out all distractions
3) Do the Property practice test
4) Decide what your next most important task is and repeat steps one through three
This may be difficult at first, but I promise it's worth it. Once you are able to this (all it takes is some practice), you'll be on your way to a passing the bar exam. This is the exact same strategy I used to pass the California bar exam the first time I took it. I also taught this strategy to a friend that recently passed the Florida Bar Exam.
Regardless of what bar prep course you take, be it Barbri, PMBR, BarPassers or another course, the principle remains the same: you will pass the bar exam if you clearly identify the tasks at hand and DO those tasks with focused effort.
Studying this way has a very important side benefit: not only will it make you more prepared for the exam than you imagined, it will also condition your mind such that you will be able to maintain incredible focus when you are actually taking the exam. Three hours of intense focus on the Bar exam is a walk in the park when you have been spending the past three months studying with focused concentration for hours on end.
Now you have a basic idea on what is required to pass the bar exam. just focus on your goals, and it will happen for you.