{"id":32331,"date":"2016-02-01T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=32331"},"modified":"2016-02-01T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:06:32","slug":"bar-exam-multiple-choice-strategies-workshop-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/02\/01\/bar-exam-multiple-choice-strategies-workshop-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Exam Multiple Choice Strategies Workshop &#8211; Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<b>Thursday, February 4, 5:30 \u2013 8:00:\u00a0 MBE Strategies and Tactics &#8211; Buckingham 101<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">An interactive workshop on multiple choice strategies. \u00a0Practice with questions released by the NCBE to help\u00a0you eliminate wrong answers, avoid being misled by\u00a0sneaky tricks, \u00a0and choose between the two remaining choices. \u00a0Beyond the interactive practice,\u00a0you will receive a compilation of strategies compiled from\u00a0 multiple sources. \u00a0[This workshop is similar to the Fall 2015 ALA MBE strategies lecture\u00a0&#8211; but significantly different from earlier ALA classes.] \u00a0 These\u00a0Academic Success\u00a0Workshops are designed for\u00a0students and alumni preparing for the February bar exam, but are also open to students and alumni preparing for the July bar exam, space permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Food and casual conversation from 5:30 &#8211; 6:00. \u00a0The formal workshop will run approximately an hour and a half, beginning at 6:00. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_bEgjbl8CTAJ7v4p\">Please sign up here<\/a> so I know how much food to order!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">Remaining workshops in the series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Tuesday, February 9,\u00a0 6:00 \u2013 8:00<\/b><b>:\u00a0 MPT Outlining Strategies<\/b>:\u00a0 The concept of an MPT is easy \u2013 you don\u2019t need to know anything other than how to write like a lawyer.\u00a0 The execution \u2013 not so easy.\u00a0 The outlining technique taught in this workshop allows you to organize and write your essay in the 90 minute time frame.\u00a0 [Similar to any ALA class, updated to include less formal outline techniques]<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>Thursday, February 11, 5:30 \u2013 7:30\u00a0 Making up the Rules<\/b>: How to prepare for, and survive, your mind blanking out at the most inopportune time.\u00a0 The rule-making techniques will help you survive the ultimate failure, as well as improving your rule stack for the majority of the time when you remember the rules.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>Tuesday, February 16, 5:30 \u2013 7:30 MPT Exam Simulation<\/b>:\u00a0 Every year, a few foolhardy souls never get around to writing any MPT essays until the morning of the first day of the bar exam.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t usually end well.\u00a0 Take advantage of the opportunity to write an MPT essay under exam conditions.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>Saturday, February 13, 12:00 \u2013 5:00 PM:\u00a0 Half-day Hangout<\/b>:\u00a0 More food, an informal repeat of any workshops you missed, a chance to ask whatever you haven\u2019t gotten around to asking, I\u2019ll time essays, MPTs, or MBE sets.\u00a0 Whatever (within reason) will help you make it through this final stretch.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><u><\/u>\u00a0(The series of 5 workshops + the Half-day Hangout will be repeated twice leading up to the July exam)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Questions: \u00a0Nancy Reeves, Assistant Director of Academic Success Programs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">nlr22@uakron.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Thursday, February 4, 5:30 \u2013 8:00:\u00a0 MBE Strategies and Tactics &#8211; Buckingham 101 An interactive workshop on multiple choice strategies. \u00a0Practice with questions released by the NCBE to help\u00a0you eliminate wrong answers, avoid being misled by\u00a0sneaky tricks, \u00a0and choose between the two remaining choices. \u00a0Beyond the interactive practice,\u00a0you will receive a compilation of strategies compiled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/02\/01\/bar-exam-multiple-choice-strategies-workshop-thursday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bar Exam Multiple Choice Strategies Workshop &#8211; Thursday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-32331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-examination-information","tag-academic-success-programs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32331\/revisions\/32347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}