First Year Law School Exam (Baby Bar) Programs

Fourteen (14) Week Program $3,150

Fourteen (14) Week Guaranteed Program $5,500

  

Taft Law School Students Only. $1,000 Refund Available

Attend Taft Law School?  Taft Law School (taftlawschool.edu) will credit you $333.33 towards your second, third and fourth year tuition when you pass the California Baby Bar exam after enrolling and completing our Baby Bar Review program.  Taft Law School encourages its student to take a Baby Bar Review Program.

Fourteen (14) Week Program

Allows you to study four  hours each day for fourteen weeks following our personalized suggested Daily Study Schedule.

 

Guaranteed Program

Come through our Baby Bar Review program the first time.  If you give 100% commitment and effort and fail the exam, you can come through our program a second time for free.  With an average passing rate of only 20%, even the most prepared student can fail the California Baby Bar Exam.  Because you need to know why you failed, we will review and critique your returned answers from the State Bar of California.  We will show you why you failed and then develop a custom tailored study plan of attack so that you can pass the next Baby Bar exam.

 

Live Tutoring Available Nationwide

Whether you live in Orange County, CA or Alaska, we offer live tutoring services to you on a one-on-one basis either in our Aliso Viejo, CA offices or by telephone conferences and e-mails.  Tutoring one-on-one with our experienced attorney instructors allows you the opportunity to ask any and all questions related to your assignments.  Either option will provide you constant support and encouragement to help you develop proper test-taking techniques in order for you to become an accomplished test-taker.

Why Bar Made Easy

Need personal attention?  Have questions on the law?  Overwhelmed with your course work?  Have limited time to study?  Know the law but don’t know how to begin writing an exam?  Doing poorly on MBE questions?  Work one-on-one with our attorney instructors and receive incredible helpful feedback to your questions and on your assigned written essays and hundreds of multistate questions.

 

Write Over Sixty (60) Exams And Each Will Be Critiqued 

Write over sixty (60) assigned exams and each one will be carefully reviewed and critiqued with you.  We will comment on what you did well, what is missing in your work and provide ideas on how to improve your overall test-taking skills.   When you apply the constructive feedback we give you to your next assignment you will immediately notice an improvement in your test-taking abilities.  We will also teach you how to take a multistate question so that you stop selecting the second best answer.

Why So Many Exams/MBE’S

You learn from putting the pen to the paper.  The more fact patterns you are exposed to the more issues you will recognize.  The more call of the questions you read (or stems in the MBE’S), the better understanding you will have of what the question is asking you.  The more outlining you do of each essay, the better your outlining and writing skills  and the more exams you write, the faster test-taker you will become.   Best of all, each and every exam/MBE will be personally review with you.

We Hold You Accountable

Included in the course materials is a personalized Daily Study Schedule that you are to closely follow each day of the program.  Your essay exam and multistate question assignments are included in the schedule.  All assignments are to be completed and submitted to our office prior to each session.  We will review them in great detail and then be ready to share our comments with you at your next session.  Because we work so closely with you, you are motivated and encouraged to complete your assignments.    We  also hold you accountable for your assignments because this is the only way you will improve.

Why Live Feedback Is A Must

While some courses provide detailed law lectures and essay reviews, you are assigned only a handfull of essays exams to write and submit for a written and/or recorded critique.  Once you receive the critique, there is no opportunity to ask questions of the grader should the critique be unclear, not detailed enough or if the critique raises new questions for the student.  Being able to ask questions during your tutorial is extremely important so that you truly understand what needs to be done in order to improve.  When you understand why you received the critique that you did, along with encouragement and feedback on how to improve, that is when the major learning takes place. 

Simulated Baby Bar Testing Included

We will also provide you with simulated baby bar timed testing sessions to provide you with the  “actual experience” so that the Baby Bar exam itself will seem like another practice session with Bar  Made Easy.  These simulated exams will also measure your progress.   It would be best to experience the panic of missing issues, writing a weak analysis, and/or running out of time in simulated situations rather than doing it during the actual Baby Bar.  So, when you are ready to take the Baby Bar, you will be both physically and mentally ready to pass it. 

Course Materials

Our program is all-inclusive.  We begin by giving you a personalized Daily Study Schedule which lays out what you should be studying each day of your program along with a suggested time recommendation for each assignment.  At your first live session, you will receive an Essay Writing Workshop to teach you the necessary fundamentals of of exam writing.   Included is a detailed review of our own 8 Simple Steps  To Writing Exceptional Law School and Bar Exam Essay Answers©. Throughout our course you will receive Multistate Workshops for Contracts, Criminal Law and Torts.

The course also includes all essays and upon the submission of your assignment will you receive the issue analysis and/or sample answers.   You will receive multistate materials and our excellent Issue Spotting Checklists for Contracts, Criminal Law and Torts.   These Checklists help you identify the issues more easily on an exam and also provide approaches on how and what to write on these issues.   Identifying  just one or two more issues on your exam by using a detailed checklist can be all the difference between failing and passing.

Most important, you will work one-on-one with our experienced attorney instructors one – two times each week up to two hours each session depending upon which program you choose – the Seven (7) or Fourteen (14) Week Program.  End the course with our Simulated Baby Bar testing sessions so that you can undergo the “Baby Bar Experience” prior to sitting for the actual exam.

Enroll While In Law School

Students required to sit for the Baby Bar Exam are strongly encouraged to enroll during their first year of law school. The old expression of “killing two birds with one stone” applies here.  The preparation for the Baby Bar is the same as you would prepare for law school finals.  While you will have a separate final for Contracts, Criminal Law and Torts, the Baby Bar Exam tests all three subjects in one exam on one day.  Why not receive the materials and instruction while in law school so that you perform strongly on both your final exams and the Baby Bar exam.

We can  recommend to you which program you should enroll in depending upon the number of hours you have available to study, where you are in the first year of law study and when you plan to sit for the Baby Bar exam.  We commit to being your personal attorney instructors throughout your Baby Bar preparation.  Teaching the law and test-taking skills to you so that you pass the California Baby Bar exam is our business; and we are here to help you any way we can.  Enroll Today.

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Baby Bar Helpful Information

In California, certain students are required to take and pass the First-Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSE), also known as the Baby Bar, before advancing and taking the California Bar Exam.  According to the California State Bar, the Baby Bar is administered in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas in June and October each year. The examination includes both essay and multiple-choice questions and is administered in one day.

Four hours is allocated for completing the four-essay question portion of the examination and three hours is allotted for one hundred multiple-choice questions. The subjects covered in this examination are: Contracts, Criminal Law, and Torts.  An answer based upon legal theories and principles of general applicability is sufficient; detailed knowledge of California law is not required.

The average pass rate on the baby bar examination is around 20%.  Below are the passing rates for the past few years:

October 2010:  19.5%            June 2010: 24.6%

October 2009:  19.1%            June 2009:  21.5%

October 2008:  14.7%            June 2008:  25.9%

October 2007:  19.0%            June 2007:  18.4%

Why The Baby Bar Passing Rate So Low?

Why is the passing rate so low? Simply stated, first year students are not prepared to take the examination. The student’s first year in law school can be quite overwhelming with the many casebooks, brief preparation, study aids and the assigned reading. It is easy to lose sight of what the Baby Bar Examination is testing on when being inundated with so many obstacles. Students get lost in the minutia of the law and rarely apply the knowledge they are learning to practice examinations. The Baby Bar is testing the application of the law and not measuring how much law a student has learned and retained.

Students need to focus on what is expected of them. It is not how much law one knows that is important but, rather, can the student apply what they do know to the examination facts. Students who can spot the issues, write good analysis, incorporating the facts from the examination, and who can finish within the allotted time will do well in law school. Most students feel inadequate about their knowledge of the law so they continue to learn and understand the law.

While the learning of the law never ends, it is better to start applying what principles of law students have learned to practice examinations. The student’s first few examinations will produce less than satisfactory written answers. However, with each examination reviewed and critiqued much will be learned in this process. It is best to stumble now, understand why your results are poor and then apply the learned knowledge to the next exam. This approach is far superior to just reading the casebook, preparing case briefs and developing one’s own outlines of the tested subjects.

 

A Review Program Is A Must

The Baby Bar is an exam you do not want to walk into unprepared.  The Baby Bar’s pass rate is extremely low because first year students are not prepared for it.  The average pass rate is 20%.  Most law students understand the law but few know how to apply the law to essay(s) and multistate questions.

With personalized direction and support, the necessary test-taking skills can be learned and mastered.   That is why every Baby Bar candidate should enroll in a Baby Bar program during their first year of law school.  Students will learn solid test-taking skills and strategies to passing their final exams and the Baby Bar.