{"id":43991,"date":"2017-04-06T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=43991"},"modified":"2017-04-06T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:12:10","slug":"early-start-bar-study-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/04\/06\/early-start-bar-study-group-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Start Bar Study Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Early Start Bar Study Group &#8211; Central Hower 307<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fridays @ 2 PM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Saturday 1 PM*<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">This week: \u00a0A contracts essay (Statute of Frauds and\/or Parol Evidence)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Next week: \u00a0Interactive multiple choice strategies for the MBE (multiple choice) portion of the bar exam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The study group is open to anyone who has a bar exam in their future who is interested in getting a head start. \u00a0(It is primarily designed for people preparing for the July 2017 bar exam, but at least one participant is preparing for the July 2018 exam!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Four out of four of the alumni panelists Tuesday night ALA class\u00a0indicated the most important thing they did to prepare for the bar exam was to write lots of essays &#8211; so that by the time the bar exam rolled around the actual bar exam was just 12 more essays. \u00a0In contrast, the most frequent barrier to writing essays early is, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know enough to write essays yet.&#8221; This often leads to delaying essay writing until the last 2 weeks before the bar exam. \u00a0The study group is a risk-free way to get past\u00a0that emotional hurdle and get started!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">* There&#8217;s been a request to move the Saturday group to Saturday morning or Sunday evening. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve been attending (or are interested in attending the weekend group, let me know if either of those new times works for you)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For information (or to be added to the Springboard support site), contact Nancy Reeves, Assistant Dean for Academic Success &#8211; nlr22@uakron.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Start Bar Study Group &#8211; Central Hower 307 Fridays @ 2 PM Saturday 1 PM* This week: \u00a0A contracts essay (Statute of Frauds and\/or Parol Evidence) Next week: \u00a0Interactive multiple choice strategies for the MBE (multiple choice) portion of the bar exam The study group is open to anyone who has a bar exam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/04\/06\/early-start-bar-study-group-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Start Bar Study Group&#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":[157,1],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-43991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-examination-information","category-uncategorized","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\/43991","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=43991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991\/revisions\/44971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}