{"id":41015,"date":"2017-01-04T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=41015"},"modified":"2017-01-04T22:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T03:30:24","slug":"studying-for-the-bar-exam-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/01\/04\/studying-for-the-bar-exam-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying for the Bar Exam?  Workshops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Bar Exam Essay Structure Workshop<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Friday, January 6, PM &#8211; Essay Structure Workshop \u2013 Central Hower High Room 312<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bar graders spend an average of 2-3 minutes reading each of your essays.\u00a0 Those 2-3 minutes will determine whether you will earn a license to practice law.\u00a0\u00a0 Make those minutes count!\u00a0 Learn to make your essays grader-friendly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food &amp; informal Q&amp;A starts at 5:30; the workshop starts at 6:00 PM and will last until ~7:30 PM.<\/li>\n<li>Please bring your computer (if you expect to take the exam using a computer), any essay you have written, OR 2 paper copies of your essay and multiple highlighters of different colors)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_80sRz4NC7jPmkyp\">Sign up here<\/a> so I make sure to bring enough food!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the first of five workshops offered in preparation for the February bar exam. \u00a0(They will be repeated, beginning in June, for the July bar exam. \u00a0Feel free to attend now, even if you are taking the July bar exam, and get a head start on preparing for the bar exam, especially if you are not taking ALA this semester.)<\/p>\n<h3>The rest of the workshop schedule:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, January 12 &#8211; \u00a0 MPT Outlining Strategies<\/strong>:\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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday, January 16 &#8211; MBE Strategies and Tactics<\/strong>:\u00a0 How to approach an MBE question, and a compilation of strategies from\u00a0 multiple sources for avoiding NCBE sneaky tricks, eliminating wrong answers, and choosing between the last two once you\u2019ve eliminated the others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, January 26 \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0 Making up the Rules<\/strong>: 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday, February 3 &#8211; \u00a0MPT Exam Simulation<\/strong>:\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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saturday, February 11, 12:00 \u2013 5:00 PM:\u00a0 Half-day Hangout<\/strong>:\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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact Nancy Reeves for additional information. \u00a0NLR22@uakron.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bar Exam Essay Structure Workshop Friday, January 6, PM &#8211; Essay Structure Workshop \u2013 Central Hower High Room 312 Bar graders spend an average of 2-3 minutes reading each of your essays.\u00a0 Those 2-3 minutes will determine whether you will earn a license to practice law.\u00a0\u00a0 Make those minutes count!\u00a0 Learn to make your essays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/01\/04\/studying-for-the-bar-exam-workshops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Studying for the Bar Exam?  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