The Bar Exam
The MBE:
The MBE tutoring consists of assigning an MBE subject to review throughout the week. The lesson provides you the opportunity to thoroughly review with me any of the substantive law in that subject. All questions are fair game and I encourage students to note questions that they have while studying so that they won't forget to ask! In addition to reviewing questions that you bring along to the lesson, we'll spend the lesson reviewing practice questions that I've assigned prior to our meeting.
To perform well on the MBE requires a deep understanding both of the law and of the test. A misconception is that one can score very well merely by memorizing the law. Rather, in addition to that foundation, you also must develop skills both for issue spotting and for eliminating wrong answers. The lesson is geared towards two components: building a solid knowledge base, and learning the skills required to perform well. I've come to learn over time that the second component is as important if not more important than the first. We spend a lot of time working on skills.
Specifically, there are two purposes to the MBE tutoring. The first is to fully understand the legal rule tested in any question you answered incorrectly so that you can later apply that rule to a new fact pattern. And the second is to examine the questions I've assigned to determine where you could have improved in your legal analysis and to develop strategies for more effectively answering questions correctly. We work on eliminating the distractors so that you’ll have a better understanding of the patterns used by the test makers to create incorrect answers.
The Essays:
The intent of the essay tutoring is to learn how to apply the law to the types of essay questions likely to show up on the exam. How you present the law to the graders will determine whether you score the points that have been allocated for the legal issues so presentation is a key component of this tutoring.
I assign essays and we review your responses to these essays in detail throughout the lesson. We work together on maximizing the number of points you can score on any given essay through rigorous and effective legal analysis and I teach my theory on how best to IRAC in order to score those points.
So much of effective essay writing on a bar exam involves the difficult skill of analyzing legal issues and so our goal throughout is to fine tune that skill before you sit for the exam. After the lesson, I send to you a model answer written by a candidate who had written the essay while taking the bar exam as well as my own answer to the question which incorporates my blueprint for essay writing that I'll be sending to you as well.
The MBE:
The MBE tutoring consists of assigning an MBE subject to review throughout the week. The lesson provides you the opportunity to thoroughly review with me any of the substantive law in that subject. All questions are fair game and I encourage students to note questions that they have while studying so that they won't forget to ask! In addition to reviewing questions that you bring along to the lesson, we'll spend the lesson reviewing practice questions that I've assigned prior to our meeting.
To perform well on the MBE requires a deep understanding both of the law and of the test. A misconception is that one can score very well merely by memorizing the law. Rather, in addition to that foundation, you also must develop skills both for issue spotting and for eliminating wrong answers. The lesson is geared towards two components: building a solid knowledge base, and learning the skills required to perform well. I've come to learn over time that the second component is as important if not more important than the first. We spend a lot of time working on skills.
Specifically, there are two purposes to the MBE tutoring. The first is to fully understand the legal rule tested in any question you answered incorrectly so that you can later apply that rule to a new fact pattern. And the second is to examine the questions I've assigned to determine where you could have improved in your legal analysis and to develop strategies for more effectively answering questions correctly. We work on eliminating the distractors so that you’ll have a better understanding of the patterns used by the test makers to create incorrect answers.
The Essays:
The intent of the essay tutoring is to learn how to apply the law to the types of essay questions likely to show up on the exam. How you present the law to the graders will determine whether you score the points that have been allocated for the legal issues so presentation is a key component of this tutoring.
I assign essays and we review your responses to these essays in detail throughout the lesson. We work together on maximizing the number of points you can score on any given essay through rigorous and effective legal analysis and I teach my theory on how best to IRAC in order to score those points.
So much of effective essay writing on a bar exam involves the difficult skill of analyzing legal issues and so our goal throughout is to fine tune that skill before you sit for the exam. After the lesson, I send to you a model answer written by a candidate who had written the essay while taking the bar exam as well as my own answer to the question which incorporates my blueprint for essay writing that I'll be sending to you as well.
The LSAT:
The LSAT tutoring can target certain sections (for example, Logic Games) or we can spread the tutoring out equally among all three sections of the exam. This will entirely depend on the individual needs of each student. In all cases, though, we'll work on official LSAT exams to spot the patterns in the mistakes you're making so that we can fix these errors. The LSAT is a very learnable test but it takes a lot of dedication, especially if the goal is to score among the top percentiles.
An initial diagnostic test will guide us in determining where we should focus. Multiple full-length timed exams are part of the program since speed and endurance are extremely important variables and to neglect them risks scoring far lower on the actual exam than you're scoring while practicing.
Contact Information:
You're welcome to reach out to me @ silvermanbarprep@gmail.com to learn more about bar exam tutoring, and @ silvermanlsat@gmail.com to learn more about LSAT tutoring.
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