Here’s something that people who pass the bar exam never say:
“All I had to do was listen to all the bar course lectures and take a lot of notes. Just complete the course 100% and you’ll pass!”
Could you imagine if that’s all it took tho
Sometimes we think “doing whatever it takes” to pass the bar exam means exhausting yourself and throwing 1000 hours and even more dollars into a black hole. (But it doesn’t have to be expensive.)
Or following some unsustainable cookie-cutter schedule (that doesn’t care if you have other responsibilities like work or family). Good luck if you fall behind by one day.
Or letting a perfectly fine morning slip through by religiously sitting through 4 hours of droning lectures. Worse, pausing lectures to fill in all the notes. Then not even remembering 99% of it.
When you thought the lectures made sense
“Trust the process.”
I remember those days. All of those things above are things I stopped doing on my second attempt at preparing for the bar exam.
Here’s what I’d do instead:
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