Complete Course Description

This course includes 84 hours of video lectures, 42 graded homework and practice exams, 5 graded performance tests, a 3-day simulated bar exam, unlimited private tutorials (within reason), full text answers to 250 Former California Bar Exam questions, a video-lecture analysis of 45 Former California Bar Exam questions (about ½ hour each), and you can do it all from home.

The Lectures

Once you have a pass word, you have access to all of the lectures. The lectures are on our website. There are two 3-hour lectures on each major bar subject. You may watch them at your convenience, and re-watch them as many times as you wish.

A typical lecture is a mixture of about 50% substantive law and 50% application of the law to former bar questions. There is a homework assignment following each 3-hour lecture. The homework assignment is always to write an answer to a former bar question. The question has been selected to tests the sub-topic of the lecture. Homework is due at the end of the week (On Saturday).

Homework

There is a “DAILY SCHEDULE” which shows the order in which we would like for you to watch the video lectures. This order is important because there is a homework assignment (a former bar question) at the end of each lecture. The homework assignments are due on Saturdays. Therefore it is important to watch the lectures assigned for the week so that you can turn in the homework assignments due at the end of the week. The graded homework will be given a number grade, contain significant remarks, and will be returned to you promptly.

For example, the “DAILY SCHEDULE” shows that during the first week of classes, you should watch four 3-hour lectures: Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, and Remedies. A former bar question is assigned as homework at the end of each 3-hour lecture. Therefore four essay answers are due on Saturday. These should be written open book with unlimited time, until the end of June. You homework answers should be what you believe to be a “100" answer.

The “DAILY SCHEDULE” also shows that during the second week of classes you should watch 3 more hours of lecture (total of 6 hrs per subject) for each of the four subjects mentioned, with four more assigned essays due at the end of the second week.

Homework and practice exams are submitted to us and returned to you using the google docs system. We will explain how to use it.

Practice Exams

A 3-hour practice exam is given each week (on Saturday). You take them at home. Additionally, there is a 3-day simulated bar exam given two weeks before the real bar exam.

Weekly Practice Exams

About half of the weekly (Saturday) practice exams are writing essays on subjects we have just finished. The exams are written at home, open book, with 50% extra time per essay. They are open book because if you have to look up a rule and use it, you will remember it during the bar exam. The 50% extra time allows you to get into the habit of getting a clear understanding of the problem before beginning to write. It also allows time for you to look up any rule you do not remember. Give us what you believe to be a “100" answer.

About half of the weekly (Saturday) practice exams will be Performance Tests. You should take 3 ½ hours to do these until the end of June. You should use the extra ½ hour to develop a clear understanding of the problem, and write from that understanding. It is important to get into the habit of getting a clear understanding of the problem before writing.

Three-Day Simulated Bar Exam

Beginning 14 days before the bar exam, we conduct a 3-day simulated bar exam.

On Tuesday morning- Write three former bar essays (which we select);
Tuesday afternoon- Write one Performance Test
Wednesday- Take a 200 question MBE test, using your own source of MBE questions.
Thursday morning- Write three former bar essays;
Thursday afternoon-Write one Performance Test

Private Tutoring

When your homework or practice exams are returned to you, they contain the name and telephone number of the grader. You may telephone, or email, that grader, or any grader, about any bar matter, at the convenience of you and the grader. The graders are paid by the paper when grading, and paid by the hour when tutoring by telephone. They will talk with you all night long if you wish.

Typically, about half of our graders are former bar graders. The others are chosen because they are very good.

We encourage you to use all the private tutoring you would like. It saves you time, and improves your readiness for the bar exam.