The Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast: Pass the Bar Exam with Less Stress

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The Bar Exam Toolbox podcast helps bar takers pass with less stress and anxiety. Hosted by bar exam experts Lee Burgess and Alison Monahan, the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from how to learn and memorize all the law you need to know for the bar exam, to how to write a passing essay, to how to get bar exam accommodations. If you're struggling with the bar exam, or work with students who are, tune in for practical strategies for bar exam success!

Episodes

005: Career-Related Bar Exam Issues

Welcome to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're talking with Sadie Jones, a former BigLaw recruiter, about job situations that come up surrounding the bar exam. This includes studying for the bar(s) while working and what typically happens at work if you fail the bar. In this episode, we discuss: What kinds of situations can arise involving bar study while working Whether you should take time off from working to study for the bar If you do need time off work – to whom should you talk at wor...

May 07, 2018•47 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

004: Advice for First-Time Bar Exam Takers

Welcome to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're sharing advice for first-time bar exam takers. Even if you're still in law school and the bar exam may be a few years away, this is great stuff to keep in mind. In this episode, we discuss: How and why to critically evaluate if your bar prep program is working for you That most important of bar preparations – PRACTICE – and how to make it most effective Ways to avoid burnout Thinking ahead to get ready for exam day(s) Accommodations and why y...

Apr 30, 2018•43 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

003: Bar Exam 101 for Law Students

Welcome to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re talking through some bar exam basics for 1Ls, 2Ls, and 3Ls who have the bar exam looming on the horizon. In this episode, we discuss: Why you should care about preparing for the bar exam as a law student, even if you’re a 1L The current exam landscape and how the UBE is impacting where people sit for the bar exam How the bar exam tests you and the best tools to prepare for each portion, including some thoughts about signing up for the standar...

Apr 23, 2018•36 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

002: Getting Accommodations for the Bar Exam (w/Dr. Jared Maloff)

Welcome to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we are talking with Dr. Jared Maloff, a licensed clinical psychologist in Beverly Hills, about getting accommodations for the bar exam. This topic is critically important, because a large numbers of students and bar studiers struggle to get the accommodations they need for the bar exam, even when they've successfully gotten accommodations in law school. Tune in to find out more about the accommodations process for the bar exam. In this episode, we d...

Apr 16, 2018•48 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

001: Welcome to the Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast!

Welcome to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! We are excited to have you join us to talk about the bar exam (everyone’s favorite topic). The goal of this episode is to give you an idea of who Lee and Alison are, what the Bar Exam Toolbox is, and why we think it is important to talk about the bar exam as much as we do. In this episode, we discuss: Who we are and what the Bar Exam Toolbox is Why talking about the bar exam is so important The most important lessons we’ve learned from working with bar ta...

Apr 10, 2018•28 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast