Baby Bar Preparation Daily 'Jump Page'
Success on the California First-Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSX) requires long hours of preparation. Without a doubt, diligent time management and unbreakable resolve to pass the examination are required to make it happen. Staying positive and studying cleverly over an extended period of time is the key.
It is certainly good to take a comprehensive Baby Bar Review course as part of your preparation for the FYLSX. However, whether you take a Baby Bar Review course or not, the school strongly recommends that you ACTIVELY do all of the following to prepare well for the examination:
One: Learn the tested nuances in substantive ‘Black Letter Law’ by reading and answering hundreds and hundreds of practice multiple-choice questions.
Practice questions in multiple-choice format are available in books and on the AdpatiBar online simulator.(Click here: AdaptiBar)
After signing up for use of the AdaptiBar simulator for $295.00, you can login to it during your AdaptiBar subscription from this NWCU jump page by clicking the below link:
The multiple-choice part of the examination should receive a large amount, perhaps the greatest amount, of your attention as you prepare for the FYLSX. Mastery of the multiple-choice part of the exam rewards you with great point-earning potential. Each correct answer raises your overall score on the FYLSX and does so without any uncertainty related to the subjective assessments of graders. Moreover, the nuances in the law that you learn as you practice for the multiple-choice questions are the very nuances that you need to know for the handling of many essay questions. So, you get valuable knowledge for both the multiple-choice and the essay parts of the examination by reading and answering hundreds and hundreds of practice multiple-choice questions.
Detailed explanations are provided for the answers to each question on the AdaptiBar simulator. The answer explanations will provide you with law that you need to know and give you an awareness of areas in the law that are difficult for you so that you can focus on them. You will learn by knowing which questions you missed and why you missed them so that you can avoid making the same mistakes again when you take the real exam.
Answering hundreds and hundreds of the practice multiple-choice questions is the way to go. Don’t stop when you get to a point at which you are getting more than 70, 80 or 90 percent of your answers correct. What is important is that you move on to dissect each multiple-choice practice question and answer and, in the process, master the correct concepts that are the subject of each. Your goal should be focused entirely on learning nuances in the law by reading, thinking about and then answering the questions.
Two: Read and analyze a large number of past FYLSX essay test questions and answers.
Examination essay questions and selected answers that achieved good scores on past administrations of the FYLSX are available to you for free. They can be easily accessed by clicking the below links.
Three: Outline and write many essay answers to essay test questions.
Select questions from those that are accessible by clicking the above-referenced links. Then, in self-timed sessions, write answers to the questions and later compare your answers to the corresponding answers that are provided.
Four: Learn to answer all essay questions with analysis and argument.
Learn to answer all essay questions with analysis and argument because that will get you much higher scores than answers that provide nothing more than good definitions of key law terms and only simple, non-analytical references to, or quotations from, the facts of the questions. Good analysis and argument will get you many more points than good definitions. While knowing the definitions is crucial to being able to identify issues on the examination, it is analysis and argument that will drive up the points earned on the essay portion of it.
Five: Study harder and longer than you ever have for anything else.
Study compulsively with constant focus on the prize. Avoid distractions and stay determined over the entire period of time by studying many long hours, day in and day out. Remember that success on the Baby Bar comes only with intense preparation. The time you spend preparing for the Baby Bar exam should be one of the most unforgettable periods of your life; a time when you worked harder than ever to achieve a worthwhile goal. Your aim must be to prepare to the point that when you answer questions on the day of the real exam you realize that it is just like another day of practice.
Six: Read each one of the following messages.
(Click on each link below)
Significant Change to Definition for Key Law Term
The Issue-Under-Here-Therefore Method
Questions and Selected Answers
Issue Recognition and Outlining
The Silver Bullet - Active Study FOR THE TEST versus Passive Study for the Courses Tested
Summary of My Advice For Writing Essay Answers
The Best Way to Study for the FYLSX - Tips for Success, Extra Points and More
Books That May Be Helpful to You in Your Preparation for the Baby Bar