{"id":45799,"date":"2017-06-18T23:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=45799"},"modified":"2017-06-18T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:48:51","slug":"bar-exam-making-up-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/06\/18\/bar-exam-making-up-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Exam:  Making up the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Making up the Rules<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tuesday, June 20 &#8211; L-325<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">1:00 PM &amp; 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Food and casual conversation starting 30 minutes ahead of the workshop)<\/p>\n<p>By now the reality of just how many rules there are to memorize is probably hitting you.\u00a0 It is is unlikely you will be able to perfectly remember every single rule on the bar exam.\u00a0 (Don\u2019t worry too much \u2013 no one remembers them all perfectly \u2013 why do you think the \u201cbetter\u201d released answers are so bad?)<\/p>\n<p>This interactive workshop focuses on how to use your general legal knowledge and the facts in the prompt to help you salvage your essay\u00a0when your mind blanks out at the most inopportune time.\u00a0 The techniques are not only good for when your mind blanks, but for fine tuning\u00a0and customizing the unwieldy rules your bar vendor often supplies and for spotting issues you may have missed.\u00a0 [This is similar to Spring 2017 ALA, but with entirely new rule snippets.\u00a0 This is different from earlier ALA classes.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3aatqhZMjBQ26G1\">Sign up here<\/a> so I make sure to bring enough food!<\/p>\n<p>Remaining workshops in the series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, June 29 \u00a0&#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.\u00a0 [Similar to the ALA course \u2013 with a different set of questions]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monday, July 10 &#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.\u00a0 (I will select an essay that is not used by any vendor this year, and was not used in ALA in 2016-17.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, July 15, 12:00 \u2013 5:00 PM:\u00a0 Half-day Hangout<\/strong>:\u00a0 Homemade food (sloppy joes or a summer soup, multiple varieties of hummus, veggies), 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making up the Rules Tuesday, June 20 &#8211; L-325 1:00 PM &amp; 6:00 PM (Food and casual conversation starting 30 minutes ahead of the workshop) By now the reality of just how many rules there are to memorize is probably hitting you.\u00a0 It is is unlikely you will be able to perfectly remember every single &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/06\/18\/bar-exam-making-up-the-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bar Exam:  Making up the Rules&#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-45799","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\/45799","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=45799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799\/revisions\/45807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}