From the Officially Trained Grading Method Of the State Bar
State Bar-aligned System: Grader-trained strategies for U.S. bar essays and PTs that slash speculation, boost scores via official rubric precision.
Precision
Certainty
Optimization
Law School Compatibility
What's the Fuss?
Heir from the Bar Examiner's Training of Graders
Core Philosophy: The Writing System empowers you to write from the ground up—layering complexity while nailing every grading criterion bar examiners actively demand.
- Precision: You know where, how, and to what depth to spend your time—you're in control of maximizing your 'investment returns' in grades within the given timeframe."
- Certainty: Target the grader's priorities in your analysis—think like them and analyze with conviction.
- Optimization: highlighting facts upfront to tap into the available point on the rubric, prioritizing high-yield elements that minimize opportunity costs and boost overall scores.
- Law School Compatibility: The system's portability leverages the same refined IRAC framework used in law school, seamlessly adapting to law school exams.
Services
Essays
In this program, you will first learn—through both theory and hands-on practice—how to spot grades in the facts of a bar essay question. You didn't read it wrong. We begin with "grade spotting" instead of "issue spotting." They are interwoven, but we have a more systematic way of spotting the former.
Then, you will learn about three ways of writing tailored IRAC analysis according to the grades assigned. They are the tools that allow your analysis to flow most smoothly and efficiently under exam conditions.
Core techniques will be demystified, like "argue from both sides"—that law school mantra you've encountered endlessly but never fully unpacked, and you're never sure how far to take it.
Building on this foundation, you will apply these skills to eight real bar exam essays spanning Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Business Associations. Personalized feedback will be provided throughout.
All examples and materials in the training are drawn from actual past bar exam essay questions. You will be equipped with an execution strategy to streamline your analysis while boosting your bar exam performance.
Performance Test
The Performance Test (known as the Multistate Performance Test in the Uniform Bar Exam and the Performance Task in the NextGen Bar Exam) is the single most underprepared component of the bar exam during law school. Law schools rarely dedicate faculty or class time to preparing students for it, leaving them to rely on self-study or a brief one-hour workshop taught by someone untrained in handling Performance Tests—who must then draw on personal experience and guesswork to determine what works.
Yet the Performance Test constitutes a major portion of the grades on any bar exam: about 14% in California, 20% in the Uniform Bar Exam, and 30% in the NextGen Bar Exam. As you can see, it becomes even more substantial in the NextGen version.
Even if the 14% weight in California doesn't seem significant at first glance, it can easily swing the overall grade between a pass and a fail. A candidate's Performance Test score can—and often does—single-handedly make or break a dedicated, well-intentioned Juris Doctor's bar exam outcome.
By learning the methods and practicing through three past Performance Tests, you will know for certain what graders want to see in your writing, along with the specific procedures to follow to deliver it. You'll gain a clear understanding of how to use the provided FILES, how to leverage the LIBARARY materials, how to apply the refined IRAC structure from essay writing to Performance Tests, and when to do what for maximum time efficiency.
Law School Essay Writing Starter & Pro Kit
If you're about to kick off your 1L year in law school and want a real head start, this is perfect for you: learn to write in the refined IRAC framework—the backbone for crushing law school exams and sailing through the bar later—all in one streamlined program that checks two boxes at once.
You will learn everything about the methods for essay writing using the refined IRAC structure, except for elements that require prior knowledge of the law. You will engage in hands-on practice through five sets of past bar essay questions, and feedback will be provided upon reviewing your submission for each set.
Features
Agile
Official Roots
Streamlined
A Minimalist Take Based on Arbitrary Personal Experience
Portable
Plug-In Ready with What You Learned in Law School
About Me
Name: Sheng Huang
Bar Admission: California
Traits
About me
Determined and don't give up easily. Once I set my mind to something, I leverage every available resource to make it happen.
Well trained by one of the most authoritative former bar exam graders in the field.
A good person and a true team player.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Does the methods guarantee a high grade in law school exams and in bar exams?
No methods can guarantee a certain grade. While the methods arm you with the sharpest sword possible to slay the exam dragon, you'll need the strength to wield it - your command of the substantive laws.
2. Why do I need the methods again?
They propel your grades to the highest levels your substantive law knowledge can reach, elevating scores on law school exams and the bar with streamlined precision and efficiency in your analysis using the laws.
By the way, even the "standard IRAC" is not specifically taught or explained in detail in law school—not even in legal writing classes—despite everybody expecting you to know the proper way to handle it, from your professors to the bar examiners grading your essays. Many arbitrary guesses and "hearsay" are prevalent in law school about this basic building block of essay writing.
You will be shown how to write in what I call the "refined IRAC"—the method most preferred by bar graders, most efficient for you, and offering the highest time-to-grade investment ratio.
3.The methods are rooted in the grader training from the State Bar of California. How relevant are they to the NextGen Bar Exam in states that previously used the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE)?
For the California Bar Exam: Our methods are 100% applicable—a perfect match. They're designed directly from California's grader training and exam format, ensuring you master the essays and Performance Test with precision.
For the NextGen Bar Exam: Our methods remain 90% applicable, as the core legal writing skills—issue spotting, legal analysis, and structured execution via the IRAC framework—continue to be heavily tested. Leading bar prep resources (e.g., BARBRI, JD Advising) explicitly recommend IRAC for NextGen preparation.
The bulk of NextGen's innovations are simply new "containers": fresh multimedia elements like transcripts and emails, or streamlined formats such as short-answer essays. But the substance inside those containers stays the same—pure "water" (IRAC). This holds true for both essays and Performance Tests/Tasks. In fact, our "refined IRAC" approach, with its built-in flexibility to adapt to diverse tasks and maximize grading rewards, is ideally suited to NextGen's more concise and versatile structure.
4. What about the multiple choices questions?
You apply the same analytical process you'll be armed by the methods for an essay question—but do it entirely in your head. This approach helps you sidestep the notoriously tricky traps in the MBE questions and boosts your odds of reaching the answer.
5. How is the teaching conducted?
It is delivered through audio calls, email communications, guided writing, fully autonomous attempts on past bar exam questions, written feedback, reflections, and additional practice with past bar exam questions.
6. How to get started?
Please email me or use contact form below to provide the following information:
- The jurisdiction(s) where you are willing to sit for the bar exam.
- Your past bar exam grade(s) (if applicable).
- Your full contact information (name, email, phone).
I promise to respond within 48 hours. Thank you!
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