A System that Roots in the State Bar of California *
The System (a collection of methods) taught here targets specifically the essays and the Performance Test of a Bar Exam in a U.S. jurisdiction (it also applies to MBEs in the thinking process).
The System's distinguishing feature is its official roots straight from the State Bar of California. The System optimizes grades because it closely aligns with the State Bar’s own grading rubric.
Much speculation exists in law school, in books, and in online articles about what may work when writing for the Bar Exam. It is often from individual personal experience arbitrary to a greater or lesser extent in nature. One's tip may or may not apply to another individual and may result in trials, errors, and substantial opportunity costs.
The System illustrated in the course is as independent of personal experience as possible, and as portable as applicable to wide student demography as possible. This course is developed with the "core essence" of the Bar's grading specifics in mind, as shown by the teachings of the actual, former California Bar Exam grader who trained me. I kept the core of his teachings, weaving them into a concrete System expressed in the course. Thus, you will be trained with a system of approaching and executing Bar Exam writing straight from the source, the State Bar - which directs the rule of how grades are assigned to your writing. This is one differentiation and why it is effective in getting passing and high passing scores.
*Please note that I am not an ex-bar grader. However, I am admitted to the State Bar of California. I was trained by the best in the craft of Bar Exam grading and coaching, in my opinion. Among the many comments I received from the ex-bar grader: "I am extremely impressed! The contract essay is arguably the most difficult in the library. You scored much higher than the vast majority of anyone doing this essay." I have the confidence to help you see the same essence and optimize your ability to get the same passing result.
In the System, we are working on the specific, ground-level work a Bar applicant puts down on the answer sheet, which effectively gives the applicant actual grades for passing and high passing in the eyes of the Bar grader, with the least speculation from personal experience possible. If this sounds vague at this stage, check out the articles in the blog. If doubts remain, ask me because a sense of certainty in how we highlight facts and conduct analysis that actually counts for grades is what differentiates this System or ways of doing things the most from the traditional approach that is more open to interpretations. In an essay question for example, if there are facts you highlighted following the System training but have not used them in your analysis, you know for certain that there are grades behind those facts that you have not grabbed yet.
The System taught here combines a series of specific methods that explicitly target the essays and the Performance Test (PT) of a Bar Exam. It applies to Bar Exams across jurisdictions in the U.S., whether it's the California Bar Examination, the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE), the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) of the Uniformed Bar Exam (UBE), or another jurisdiction.
In this course, students are trained with released past Bar Exam questions. In terms of PT, past questions can be used interchangeably. For example, Past California PT and UBE MPT exam questions have been used interchangeably and have demonstrated equal efficacy. For essays, it is recommended to train with past questions of the jurisdiction whose exam you are sitting in order to obtain optimal efficiency and performance because the difference in substantive laws exists. Nevertheless, the System or the ways of approaching and executing Bar Exam writing remains the same.
The System is backward compatible with law school exams because it allows one to write concise but compelling legal analyses using the facts fully in IRAC and its customized forms. A law school candidate, especially a 1L or "to be 1L" trained with this System, has a clear edge in law school exam performances and grades.
You Can Pass
Your law school training in legal writing is sufficient for you to pass the Bar. Never doubt yourself about this! Your belief in yourself is the starting point of everything.
A law school graduate is like someone who has trained very hard, every day for years, in the basic forms of martial arts, the most challenging part, who has obtained the foundation necessary to prevail in actual combat but may not do so because of the difference between forms practicing and actual combat: the difference between the legal writing in law school and for the Bar Exam in analogy.
The years of hard training did not specify clearly and well enough what to do in "real combat" because training in law school is designed to train one to be a lawyer and pass the law school exams, but not how to pass the Bar Exam. We often assume they are more or less the same thing and do not pay enough attention to the difference, but the difference is more than it seems and may be sufficient in swinging the result between a pass or not.
There are many speculations and various information from different sources on what seems to work and what does not for a pass and a high pass score on the Bar Exam. Regarding the actual bar exam experience, more than it needs to be, one is left with chance, luck, and probably typing speed.
You maximize your score after training specifically for the Bar Exam by applying the System that roots to the source, whether the training is from the former California Bar Exam graders who trained me or from myself. I'm happy to refer you to the former Bar grader who trained me. When you work with someone for the Bar Exam, trust is a necessity. You want someone kind on your team to strengthen your belief in yourself in the bar prep process.
You want a feasible system that is certain to be effective across demographics, independent of personal status and experience because the opportunity cost of training for the Bar Exam with someone else's methods that does not apply to you is enormous.
The fact this method equipped me, a non-native English speaker, with the necessary tools to have passed the California Bar Examination, “infamous” for having one of the lowest passing rates in the nation, strengthened the argument that this method is portable, independent, and practical to a broad student body – this is one of its distinguishing strengths.
Essentially, it is not me that you depend on; it is the method straight from the state Bar that makes the difference you trust.
Who Am I
My name is Sheng Huang. Like many who went to law school, I have an unconventional path, except it may not be a typical unconventional one. I was born and raised in China and have lived in Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S. for most of my adulthood.
Maybe because of my natural disposition, like my grandma, maybe related to my unstated unique life experiences, I often found myself helping others, especially when I had fallen into the same trap I see people are now heading toward. I feel obliged to warn others of the trap so they can avoid making the same mistake.
For example, I found myself naturally sharing the most valuable tips and reflections of my law school exam experience to 1Ls when I was a 2L and to 2Ls additionally when I was a 3L. I felt happy and satisfied that I had fulfilled the "duty of someone who has been there" to my fellowcomers to law school.
I sometimes held "Q&A sessions" in law school office rooms with a couple of the fellowcomers in law school. One of them thanked me at the end of that term for my tip-sharings on issue-spotting that she considered "had made it possible" for her to get multiple As in the 1L finals.
I have the privilege to work with a relatively limited number of people at a time. Coaching Bar Exam preparation is something I plan to continue doing, full-time or part-time, with its meaning being one of the main reasons. This is because I know the weight, value, and cost of passing the Bar and the potential influence on a person's life I am capable of making.
Maybe this is a mission I was given.
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