Barbri workout

Hi

I haven’t posted to this blog for a while – I got admitted ages ago and don’t really log back in!

Questions – if you post a comment with your reply email address I can reply back to you personally.

To answer some of the questions that some of you have:

• You can only get the Barbri audio files from Barbri itself – it’s supplied as a home teaching solution.  There probably is a way to get it off an iPod but please note that Barbri says they have some protection measures in place that should you try to sync the iPod the whole iPod will erase and you will pay a large fee to get a replacement iPod with the lessons in it.
• How you study will depend on whether you think the distance option is good for you. I thought it was good for me to do it at my own pace and I am not into group studying so it didn’t matter whether I was in class or not. Although, it was good that I found a “study buddy” online (I was googling for others who was blogging about their NY Bar experience that winter) that I could share my grievances and stresses with.
• Ultimately a large element of the NY Bar exam relies on your exam technique. If you are good at pacing yourself, writing essays under an exam situation and don’t get too stressed, then you’re in a good position to pass.
• I know people who crammed the last 3 weeks, and didn’t have time to study much leading up to the NY Bar exam – and they passed. I know people who studied a lot more and failed. (These are all good lawyers coming from top tier firms going into white shoe/ magic circle firms in NYC . To give you a sense of what type of people I am talking about).
• I know people who didn’t do Barbri, they got notes and they passed. Barbri is good for those not disciplined enough to do it on their own, but there are plenty of materials online that can guide you. There is a link to those sites somewhere on this blog and you may wish to update it.