The Zen Of Passing The Bar Exam

The Zen of Passing the Bar Exam offers a comprehensive approach to studying for (and passing) the bar exam. Couched in neuroscience and Zen principles of focus, discipline, awareness, balance, and simplicity, the book provides guidance for the best daily practices for uplifting your mind, body, and spirit during the rigors of studying. A central theme is harnessing a Zen mindset to stay motivated and mentally sharp. In addition to lifestyle and mindset, the book also offers specific, practical advice for maximizing scores on the essay, MBE, and MPT portions of the bar exam. The book outlines specific organizational/formatting tips for how to write effective (and efficient) essays under bar exam time constraints. The book is ideal for adoption for any law school bar preparation course (or Academic Support Program), providing many exercises, examples, and model answers applicable to any state's bar exam.

This book breaks down every aspect of the Arizona bar exam, including study strategies, approaches to writing effective essays, approaches to scoring well on the MBE, MPT, and more. Unlike other current books about passing the bar exam, this one is specific to the Arizona bar exam. Moreover, this book particularly addresses writing strategies and learning theory, both vital requirements for passing the bar exam. If you want to pass the Arizona Bar Examination, you should read this book.

The Zen of Law School Success offers a comprehensive approach to succeeding in law school. Zen is about simplicity, balance, knowing your universe, knowing yourself, and staying focused on the path to enlightenment. Similarly, these principles should be the foundation for success in law school, and this book details how to put these principles into practice in order to maximize your ability to have a successful law school career. Like the Zen path to enlightenment, law school success is about balance (between studying and other aspects of life, as well as balancing your study time between subjects, outlining, etc.), knowing your universe (knowing not only the subject matter tested, but knowing how the questions are constructed, knowing what to look for, etc.), knowing yourself (what type of essay writer you are, what type of learner you are, what type of exam taker you are, etc.), and staying focused on your path (when to study, what to do when you are stressed out, what to do when you don't know a subject very well, etc.). In addition to offering a comprehensive approach to succeeding in law school, the book also offers practical advice for doing well during the classroom Socratic method, navigating the law school environment, managing law school stress, and getting a job after graduation. Moreover, the Zen of Law School Success focuses on doing well on final exams, including specific strategies and tips for both essay and multiple choice exams. The book includes many exercises and model answers that will benefit any law student and is an ideal resource for any law school Academic Achievement Program.

"A God Send" "This is a must-read for any bar candidate." "After reading this book, my whole attitude about the test changed." "I would STRONGLY recommend this book to anyone who wants to pass the bar" "The only thing I regret is not getting my hands on this book sooner!" "every word Kris wrote rang true for me" "A must read for anyone who feels the panic setting in!" "I can't recommend this book enough." "Definitely worth a read." "Kris has written an outstanding treatise that will help alleviate fear and instill confidence" "I wish I would have read this in November!" "Everyone who's considering taking the bar exam has GOT to get this book!" Bar review courses are a waste of time. Save dozens of hours of studying. Save $3,000 in bar exam prep. Read The Bar Exam is Easy and find out how to pass the bar exam the first time. This practical bar exam guide includes:- The Killer Secret You Don't Know About MBE Questions- Where to Spend the Most Time Studying- Why You Should Ignore the MPT- What Your MBE Practice Scores Should Look Like- When You Should Start StudyingThe Bar Exam Is Easy also covers:- How Bar Review Courses Waste Your Time- How to 90% Guarantee You Will Pass The Bar Exam- Why You Have Nothing to Be Afraid Of or Nervous About- What Bar Study Materials You Need (that are cheap and can be bought used)Every law school graduate wants to know how to pass the bar exam. Bar prep courses will gladly show you how to pass in some of the most inefficient ways possible while charging $3,000+ per course. Can bar exam prep courses help you pass the bar exam? Of course. But you can study more efficiently (save time, money, and effort) and effectively (higher bar pass rates) without a bar review class. I should know. I failed the Texas bar exam twice before passing on my third attempt. The first two times I took a bar review course. The third time I studied alone in my apartment kitchen. My first two scores were 637 and 654. My third score was 706. A passing score is 675.In The Bar Exam Is Easy, I share the simple techniques, tricks, tips, and secrets on how to pass the bar exam that I learned studying by myself. I also discuss the mental challenges bar takers encounter and why there is no need to be worried.The Bar Exam Is Easy was written based on my experience studying for and taking the Texas Bar Exam. However, this book is written for bar takers in all states. The formats for different state bar exams vary but the only major substantive difference is on the essays.Some states' essays are specific to that state while others employ the Multistate Essay Exam. My advice on how to study for the essay portion of the bar exam is not tailored to any one state. Rather, I give a blueprint on how to rack up points on essays, no matter what state you're taking the bar exam in.Whether you want to pass the bar exam the first time or you're trying to pass the bar exam on the second time, third time, fourth time, or even fifth time, The Bar Exam is Easy will help you prepare and pass.The Bar Exam Is Easy does not cover any material law but does tell you the must have bar exam supplements and study materials.The Bar Exam Is Easy Answers:- How to Study for MBE questions- How to Study for Bar Exam Essays- How to Study for the MPT- How Much Time To Study Everyday- How Many Days a Week to Study- Whether You Will Have Any Free Time- How to Increase Your Chances of Passing Save Thousands of Dollars and Hours of Time No Kindle Necessary 1. Download the free Kindle app here http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=10004937712. Open Amazon account --> Digital OrdersP.S. This is a risk-free purchase. If you aren't satisfied, you have 7 days to get a 100% refund

The Second Edition of Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam contains everything needed to pass the essay portion of the California bar exam. The book combines a comprehensive, yet efficiently concise review of volumes of substantive law with the authors’ proven-effective strategic plan for writing passing bar essays. Rule outlines are supplemented with issues checklists to aid issue spotting and memorization attack sheets, to make memorization manageable, while practice questions productively cover favorite testing areas so bar study is targeted and effective. New to the Second Edition Update: Recent and updated rule developments in all subjects Expanded coverage of topics emphasized on recent bar exams Updated issues tested matrices, rule memorization attack sheets, and topic specific approaches to reflect current testing trends Updated practice essay questions and answer grids in all subjects including crossover questions Professors and students will benefit from: Concise easy to memorize rule statements Fact triggers and exam tips that aid the transition to bar exam writing style Easy to follow essay approaches for key topics Practice essay questions with corresponding answer grids identifying issues and analysis required for a passing score Realistic sample answers that could be written under timed conditions Coverage of all heavily tested topics in each subject and crossover questions Issues tested matrices identifying the subtopics tested in every essay given in 30+ years

Every lawyer wants to be a good lawyer. They want to do right by their clients, contribute to the professional community, become good colleagues, interact effectively with people of all persuasions, and choose the right cases. All of these skills and behaviors are important, but they spring from hard-to-identify foundational qualities necessary for good lawyering. After focusing for three years on getting high grades and sharpening analytical skills, far too many lawyers leave law school without a real sense of what it takes to be a good lawyer. In The Good Lawyer, Douglas O. Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of top-notch attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer. They outline and analyze several crucial qualities: courage, empathy, integrity, diligence, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism. Many qualities require apportionment in the right measure, and achieving the right balance is difficult. Lawyers need to know when to empathize and also when to detach; courage without an appreciation of consequences becomes recklessness; working too hard leads to exhaustion and mistakes. And what do you do in tricky situations, where the urge to deceive is high? How can you maintain focus through a mind-taxing (or mind-numbing) project? Every lawyer faces these problems at some point, but if properly recognized and approached, they can be overcome. It's not easy being good, but this engaging guide will serve as a handbook for any lawyer trying not only to figure out how to become a better--and, almost always, more fulfilled--lawyer.

An accessible and lively introduction to the field, Law, Justice, and Society: A Sociolegal Introduction, Fifth Edition, explores the relationship between legal systems and other social institutions using a distinctive sociological point of view. Anthony Walsh and Craig Hemmens provide detailed discussions of the various ways in which law impacts people based on race, class, gender, and age while also introducing students to the origins of the law, the history and development of the American legal system, the sociology of law, court structure, and the difference between civil and criminal law.

To live life fully and die serenely—surely we all share these goals, so inextricably entwined. Yet a spiritual dimension is too often lacking in the attitudes, circumstances, and rites of death in modern society. Kapleau explores the subject of death and dying on a deeply personal level, interweaving the writings of Western religions with insights from his own Zen practice, and offers practical advice for the dying and their families.