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Bar Exam Study Resources: Guide
Introduction
The Boley Law Library is here to support you in your bar exam preparation. Below are some of the services geared for bar exam studying.
- Bar prep guides, available online now and in print when we reopen
- Practice questions online
- Quiet study spaces (as soon as we may reopen); in the meantime, check out our virtual study rooms
- Flashcards (also once we reopen)
Need anything? Just ask via chat, email, phone, or Zoom.
From all of us at Boley, best of luck. You've got this!
Study Aids: Online
West Academic Online Study Aids
Our West Academic Online Study Aids collection has a number of specific bar exam success titles:
- Acing the Bar Exam
- The Bar Exam in a Nutshell
- Bar Exam Success: A Comprehensive Guide
- The Essential Rules for Bar Exam Success
- Exam Pro Bar Prep Workbook Revised
- Mastering Multiple Choice for Federal Civil Procedure MBE Bar Prep and 1L Exam Prep
- A Short & Happy Guide to the Bar Exam's Multistate Essay Examination (MEE)
You can download these to your computer or device if you have your own West Academic login, or just access them in your browser from anywhere. Don't have a login? Create your account here.
Questions? Here are links and much more information about our West Academic Online subscription.
Practice Questions
Your law school Quimbee login gains you access to 80 free MBE practice questions, 24 simulated MPRE practice questions, and 7,836 flashcards.
Login using the Quimbee login, likely created back when you were a 1L. Your Quimbee account will remain active through the bar study period. Trouble logging in? Please contact the library at lawlib@lclark.edu or 503-768-6708.
MBE Practice Questions
- Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Property
- Torts
Simulated MPRE
- 24 MPRE Practice Questions
- See also the MPRE Rigos-Appitur App:
60 Free multiple choice exam style questions with full answer rationales covering all four alternatives
Extra Practice
- Want some extra practice with multiple choice questions, though not specifically MBE questions? Dive into Quimbee's Multiple Choice Questions collection: 16 subjects, 97 topics, 4,308 MCQs.
- Quimbee Flashcards were designed for bar study. Covering every topic tested on the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), Multistate Essay Exam (MEE), and Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), each card is keyed directly to the National Conference of Bar Examiners' subject-matter outline.
- Plus, these flashcards now incorporate Spaced Repetition, a method of learning information at gradually increasing intervals shown to optimize recall and understanding of large amounts of information.
Space to Study
As soon as we may reopen safely for our students, faculty, and staff, you will find a wide variety of quiet study spaces available for bar exam studying. Please visit our Coronavirus Response Site for the latest updates on our building status, hours, and how we may support you.
Tables
Our quiet reading room has a mix of open tables overlooking Tryon State Park, more private carrels, and some casual seating. In the library atrium we have tables and comfortable chairs, complete with ambient library noise. And there's yet more open tables with beautiful views of nature in the Wood Hall reading room.
Individual Carrels
The Boley quiet reading room has dozens of carrels of various types. All are mixed in among the bookshelves, providing privacy and quiet. Some have windows views, others are guaranteed distraction free. No reservations necessary.
Study Rooms
Wood Hall has nine group study rooms. Groups of two or more may sign up for 4-hour slots. Hoping to find an empty room for yourself? Individuals are welcome to use any empty study room until groups of two or more arrive and ask to use the space.
Study Amenities
In addition to a variety of places to study, we provide a selection of items to help you get through the day. Check them out from the library front desk.
- Power supplies and cables for most every Apple and Android phone
- Power supplies for Apple and many Windows-based laptops
- Headphones
- Stand-up desks
- Happy lights (lamps that emulate natural daylight)
Study Aids: Print
As soon as we may reopen safely for our students, faculty, and staff, you will find these print materials available for bar exam studying. Please visit our Coronavirus Response Site for the latest updates on our building status, hours, and how we may support you.
We have all sorts of bar preparation resources in print, from survival guides to "how-tos" to bar admissions guides. Most of our bar preparation guides are located on reserve for three-hour checkout. Just ask for them at the library front desk.
In addition to the highlighted titles, below, the following practice aids have arrived and are now available in our bar exam prep collection:
- Critical Pass MBE Flashcards
- Critical Pass MEE Essay Flashcards
- Emanuel Law in a Flash for Multistate Bar Exam (2-part set), Second Edition (Mary Basick)
- Strategies & Tactics for the MBE, Seventh Edition (Steven L. Emanuel)
- Strategies & Tactics for the FINZ Multistate Method, Fourth Edition (Steven Finz and Alex Ruskell)
Available now for checkout:
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Acing the Bar Exam by Acing the Bar Exam provides candidates with a complete guide to the bar exam -- from pre-planning considerations through bar review and sitting for the exam. It features comprehensive coverage of the Uniform Bar Exam, including an explanation of each component and how to prepare for it. Every aspect of the process is explained in detail and by example. The bar exam is de-constructed, section by section, where candidates are led through the steps they need to follow to succeed. Approaches for learning the black letter law, setting study schedules, and answering essay and multiple-choice questions are combined to maximize the likelihood of success. Each of these tasks is then configured into checklist format to help candidates navigate each step. This approach puts the candidate in control of the bar exam and not the other way around.Call Number: Reserve KF303 .D369 2016ISBN: 9781634608060Publication Date: 2016-06-03 -
Bar Exam Preparation and Experiential Learning for Law Students: Interactive Performance Test Training by Reading Bar Exam MPT Preparation & Experiential Learning For Law Students: Interactive Performance Test Training will help you master the performance test portion of the bar exam during law school. Working through the PT questions and sample answers, you will: - Give yourself a down payment for success on the bar exam - Gain critical exposure to practical lawyering skills that will help you transition effectively to law practice - Find that law school comes alive, especially if you have thus far seen it as "just" reading and briefing cases - Begin to see yourself not just as a student, but as a practicing attorney Law students used to postpone even thinking about the bar exam until after graduation. They then did nothing but study for two months. Today's law students have more pressure, more riding on outcomes, and much more student loan debt than prior generations. To ensure bar exam success, you must start bar prep early--during law school--and master strategies to pass every part of the exam. This book will help you do just that--pass the performance test portion of your bar exam. In the role-play simulations in this title's online performance tests, you will "represent" almost a dozen clients in criminal and civil litigation, and in transactional matters. You will practice drafting memos, briefs, discovery plans, affidavits, closing arguments, cross examinations, and more.Call Number: Reserve KF303 .B448 2017ISBN: 9781634258456Publication Date: 2018-05-01 -
Clearing the Last Hurdle by Chart a course for success with Clearing the Last Hurdle, Second Edition, a comprehensive text that includes substantive outlines on all Multistate Bar Exam and Multistate Essay Exam topics. With measurably positive results, author Wanda Temm guides students through the process of bar preparation with clear and organized instruction, innovative strategies, and practice questions in all formats (for the MBE and MEE). Features: How to formulate a game plan for preparing to take the bar Practice questions in multiple choice, essay, and performance test formats Score sheets with which students can assess their own progress How to use mind maps to improve memory and organize conceptual relationships Starter mind maps for all MBE and MEE topics Exam-taking tips throughout Visual illustrations of key concepts Techniques for decreasing anxiety and stress and for building confidenceCall Number: Reserve KF303 .T46 2018ISBN: 9781454892250Publication Date: 2017-08-02 -
Pass the Bar by This ground-breaking book for the law student is not just about passing a test: it is about changing identity, moving from student to professional, and assuming your role as an ethical leader in a complex legal world. You'll find priceless information on: Reducing Distractions, Increasing Focus, and Managing Time Getting and Using Quality Help Practice MBEs, Essays, and Performance tests The Transition from Student to Professional This must-read resource is your helpful mentor, offering concrete advice on how to face and handle today s challenges and achieve. despite them. In addition, the book includes worksheets, questionnaires, goal setting sessions, and other tools to help you stay organized and focused."Call Number: KF303 .B45 2013ISBN: 9781627222389Publication Date: 2014-06-10 -
Perform Your Best on the Bar Exam Performance Test by Provides templates and detailed instructions for writing the formats on the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) part of the bar exam. Contains twelve (12) actual MPT tasks, as released by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) and used here with permission, in a variety of formats and a range of difficulty. Full sample answers for the MPT tasks and notes on analyzing all 12 tasks. Systems and checklists for managing time. Special tips for California bar candidates and for foreign-trained lawyers.Call Number: Reserve KF303 .G345 2011ISBN: 9780970608833Publication Date: 2010-08-01 -
Strategies and Tactics for the MBE by A popular and long-standing resource for individuals studying for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), Strategies & Tactics for the MBE has been thoroughly revised and updated to include new questions and reflect recent changes made by the NCBE to the Multistate Bar Exam. This text is highlighted by more than 550 questions, complete with thorough explanations of right and wrong answers. Detailed advice on how to handle MBE questions on each subject, and a focus on the most popular and trickiest MBE topics helps users to focus their studies. Strategies, such as how to "reword" questions to make them easier to analyze, are included, and explanations are in simple, easy-to-understand language.Call Number: Reserve KF303 .W345 2013ISBN: 9781454809920Publication Date: 2012-10-11 -
Strategies and Tactics for the MBE 2 by A comprehensive resource created in the successful style of Strategies and Tactics for the MBE, Strategies and Tactics for the MBE 2 provides 300 additional questions to help you prepare for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE)! Success on the MBE can often influence whether you pass or fail the Bar Exam. It is important to understand the issues of law tested on the exam and to learn how the exam questions are written to test your understanding of the law. With its comprehensive explanations of why one answer choice is the best answer and why the other choices are not, Strategies andamp; Tactics for the MBE 2 helps you gain the ability to select the best answer choice with certainty. The 300 questions in Strategies andamp; Tactics for the MBE 2 are organized by subject area (Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Torts, and Real Property). Within each subject area, questions are broken down by subtopic, allowing you to locate and practice questions in your trouble areas. The answer explanations are clear and concise -- as you have come to expect from the Strategies andamp; Tactics series. Strategies andamp; Tactics for the MBE features: 300 additional questions to those featured in Strategies andamp; Tactics for the MBE Questions organized by subject matter subtopics, so you can easily locate questions on the topics on which you need to focus Comprehensive, step-by-step explanations for each of the four answer choices in each question Answer explanations written by Steven Emanuel, Editor-in-Chief of Emanuel Bar Review and author of Emanuel Law Outlines in the MBE-subject areas -- the Outlines that got you through law school. Student-tested content from the Emanuel Bar Review series, which resulted in pass rates 10% higher than average in major markets. * Based on passage rates of students who used Emanuel Bar Review materials in California and New York for Bar Exams in 2008 and 2009.Call Number: Reserve KF303 .E46 2013ISBN: 9781454809937Publication Date: 2012-12-28
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