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How many hours do you think you studied for the bar?
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Date: July 30th, 2010 10:51 AM Author: bisexual iridescent partner theatre I did about 600. If I end up failing the bar I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't really think I could study again. I'd be absolutely defeated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652531) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:17 AM Author: aggressive boiling water piazza Too many. I honestly walked out of the MBE thinking I could have taken it cold after 1L and done just the same.
BarBri is an insane racket. |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:23 AM Author: bisexual iridescent partner theatre I don't think it adequately prepared me for the mbe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652690) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:27 AM Author: aggressive boiling water piazza fuck barbri. i want my goddamned money back.
edit: schecter was great |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 1:51 PM Author: Seedy Stirring Electric Furnace Heaven old PMBR questions are the way to go, since they're stolen bar questions. that's why they got the shit sued out of them and had to change all their materials. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662306) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:23 AM Author: vigorous multi-billionaire public bath had i taken it after 1L, would have been total fail. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652691) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:24 AM Author: galvanic whorehouse antidepressant drug Nah. It helped. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652698) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:39 AM Author: Charcoal Low-t Useless Brakes i probably did somewhere between 400-500. what i do know now is the lectures are a complete fucking waste of time and they should give us the damn lecture handouts book already filled in. making you sit around and listen to someone who doesn't want to be there anymore than you do cover 5 pages an hour is complete horseshit. and the videos aren't any better, even with the 1.5x trick.
the only thing barbri has going for it, at least in my state, is they did have a pretty good idea of what was going to be on the essay exams and did a pretty good job of covering what we did and didn't need to know from those topics of law. but again, i could've learned that by fucking reading it. i don't need someone to hold my fucking hand and repeat something three times slowly while i fill in my blanks like a diligent little bar student. |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 12:01 PM Author: learning disabled hospital Barbri has a great racket going, because by the time you realize what an overpriced waste of time it is, you don't give a fuck enough to tell 3Ls not to blow their money on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652848) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:19 PM Author: Sexy Hideous Pit re the lectures being a waste of time, this was my intuition all along and it definitely bore out in reality. i studied exclusively from the CMR and i think i was just as prepared for this particular bar exam as someone who spent 2x the time on the lectures and doing tons of MBEs. i picked up on dozens and dozens of obscure details from the CMR that weren't in the lecture notes and were tested on both days of the exam. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662917) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:20 PM Author: territorial fragrant school agreed 180% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662922) |
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Date: August 1st, 2010 8:41 PM Author: Charcoal Low-t Useless Brakes a friend of mine kept telling me this, and i wish i had listened. he said he did nothing but read the CMR over and over and over. but my dumbass thought i was doing something wrong or would miss something if i didn't keep up with all of the lectures. dammit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15674337) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 1:50 PM Author: Seedy Stirring Electric Furnace Heaven you def don't want to be studying for this shit again while working. i did that for a second jurisdiction and was beyond miserable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662299) |
Date: July 30th, 2010 10:57 AM Author: vigorous multi-billionaire public bath NO idea. listened to the lectures and took notes from them (so all the time needed to listen to them), and maybe 4 practice MBEs. I spent the last two weeks studying maybe 8 hours a day (during weekdays).
enough, apparently. |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:18 AM Author: Ruddy Indirect Expression Stage Probably around 200 to 250. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652661) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:22 AM Author: Violent stubborn office Between 100-150 for the first license. About 50 hours for my second and third licenses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652681) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:26 AM Author: carnelian marvelous theater Counting the lectures? 300-350 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652705) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:44 AM Author: learning disabled hospital I probably averaged about 6 hours a day for a little less than 3 weeks, so around 120 hours. I went to 2 lectures and watched maybe 3 others, so that's pretty much straight CMR reading, outlining, and practice MBE/essays. |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:46 AM Author: supple hilarious mexican 150-ish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652776) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:47 AM Author: Arousing factory reset button About 150 for exam #1, 75 for exam #2. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652783) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 11:48 AM Author: purple impressive hissy fit 150? maybe more? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15652788) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 12:37 PM Author: Lake Plaza <75h with ~20-30 of that within the week prior to the exam (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15653083) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 12:40 PM Author: Poppy cumskin digit ratio about 500
I knew I was over-preparing, but it's better than the alternative and now I'm not stressed until results come out. |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 1:51 PM Author: Vibrant Deranged Site Jap Honestly? If you count posting in bar threads on xoxo and lecture, probably around 40-50. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15653498) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 2:37 PM Author: doobsian provocative psychic I dunno, probably 150-160 hours. Graduated in December a few years ago, bought previous July's BarBri materials off Craigslist for $150, spend two months in Mexico surfing and studying. Came back tan and relaxed and confidently passed the bar. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15653916) |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 8:44 PM Author: territorial fragrant school in May and June, probably averaged about 4-5 hours a day (did not tend to watch lectures, this was straight up reading the large outlines and doing practice MBEs). So that's 45 days times 4.5, about 200 hours.
In July I kicked it up a notch. About 7-10 hours a day. Let's just call it 8. 28 times 8 = 224.
So yeah, probably about 400-450 hours. |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 1:40 AM Author: cruel-hearted mad cow disease trailer park I have a hard time understanding how anyone could (1) actually study 8 hours a day for the entirety of July and (2) need to study that much to pass.
I went to Barbri lectures until I figured out the 1.5X speed shit, and then I just watched them at home. I never did any extra studying on those days except maybe some practice MBE questions. After July 4th, I watched baseball, drank beer, and actually "studied" about 2-4 hours a day on average.
About a week before the exam I "ramped up" to about 4-5 hours a day and cut out the beer (still watched baseball). That was enough. I would have burned out if I did more.
Edit: That adds up to ---> 3 hours a day in June (3 * 22 = 66) + 3 hours average after July 4 (3 * 15 = 45) + 5 hours a day at the end (5 * 7 = 35) = 146 hours. That seems about right. 150 is credited. |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:21 AM Author: territorial fragrant school Well, good for you. Hope you pass. I figured that I would do myself a disservice if I didn't treat this summer as my job to learn the law and pass the exam the first time. Most full time jobs are 8-10 hours a day. Most lawyers spend more than that working. I didn't have anything else to do.
I do not have the luxury of drinking beer and watching baseball and chillin' with the boys back in Texas, hoping that some casual video watching and reading will carry me through.
I'm not the smartest person ever, but I am pretty smart. And I figure, if I am going to be a lawyer, I might as well be more than just minimally competent. But hey, you do your thing man. |
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Date: July 30th, 2010 9:10 PM Author: Amber newt fortuitous meteor 400-500 hours of actual studying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15657599) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:22 AM Author: Walnut metal business firm international law enforcement agency NOT ENOUGH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15660582) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 12:07 PM Author: pontificating incel 350 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15661729) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 2:14 PM Author: cocky sanctuary giraffe started on the 7th of July seriously, but had done maybe 10-12 hours reading stuff in June.
worked on it all day every day for about 21 days straight. i'd say some days i did 6 hours a day, some days 10. avg. 8. turned off my phone, didn't correspond with anyone.
@ 170 hrs total
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Date: July 31st, 2010 2:16 PM Author: Henna Temple 400-500 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662499) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:14 PM Author: cowardly irate point cuck Between 120 and 150. A lot of those days in July didn't really start until 2, and then there was posting on XOXO during it.
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:15 PM Author: Sexy Hideous Pit about 200, including lots of small breaks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662900) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:24 PM Author: cowardly irate point cuck I thought my breaks were small, too, but one day I looked at my internet history and I was surprised to find that I had studied for 30 minutes (doing an essay), and would then go on the internet for 30 minutes, over a period of 8 hours. Very disturbing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662942) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:28 PM Author: Sexy Hideous Pit frankly i stopped keeping track of my time spent studying because it got very depressing and stressful. i decided to just make a good faith effort to study as much as possible and leave the rest up to fate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1382328&forum_id=2#15662967) |
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Date: July 31st, 2010 3:41 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle adulterous institution i watched most of the lectures in june but didn't do any of the homework. started studying more diligently after july 5th by catching up on most of the lectures i missed, made my own outlines for around half of the subjects, and used other ppl's outlines for the other half. spent most of my time in july trying to remember the important stuff for each subject. only did like 100ish MBE Qs and read thru 20 or so official released essay answers the day before the exam.
on the actual exam, i probably did okay on the essays, though i doubt i got every issue correct. felt like the MBE was kind of a shitshow.
probably passed but there's definitely no guarantee. |