Essay Workshop

The Essay Workshop is a collection of trainings covering the ins and outs of how to write essay answers in a way designed to demonstrate your knowledge and skills to bar graders in a way that gets you points. For UBE and CBX.

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What You'll Learn

Bar Exam essay writing is very different from the writing you did on law school exams, as well as the writing you do in the practice of law.

You may have scored very well in law school, in your legal writing class, in your practicums, or even during your internships, externships, and clerking. But the goal on the bar exam is to "crack the code" as quickly as possible, so your essay answers look exactly like the bar graders expect and want them to look.

Writing essay answers in this fashion makes it EASY for the bar graders to award points and give your essay a high score. It is YOUR JOB to portray yourself in black and white - through your essay writing - as a minimally competent attorney.

But what if no one has spelled out exactly how to do that?

That's what this Essay Workshop is all about.

What You Get

The Essay Workshop is a collection of the following 8 trainings (plus two bonuses including another 7 trainings!) that dive deep into all aspects of bar exam essay writing: organization, issue spotting, visual presentation, IRAC and CRAC, using facts, analysis, avoiding being conclusory, etc.

You can practice writing essay after essay after essay, but if you're doing it wrong, all you're doing is solidifying poor writing habits - which is the worst thing you could be doing!

You need to understand WHAT you should be doing, so that you can start practicing writing better answers. The more you practice with good form, the stronger your skills will be on the exam. And THAT translates to points, which you absolutely must have in order to pass the exam.

Essay Fundamentals

Learn all the basics: how long is each essay, what is each essay worth, what is the score range, what's a passing score, what is your essay scored on, grading rubrics, exam day strategies, etc. Here's a short clip from the 16:37 training.

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The IRAC

There's A LOT to know about creating a nice, clean IRAC'd answer... Should you IRAC or CRAC? What's it mean if you have facts "left over"? What's the difference between fact recitation, being conclusory, and doing a proper analysis? Can and should you use facts that aren't even in your fact pattern? What if you come to the wrong conclusion? What if you can't remember the rule? Get answers to all these Qs and more. Here's a short clip from the 28:45 training.

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Visual Organization

Visual organization of your essay answers is one of the easiest yet most overlooked ways of presenting yourself well on the exam and making it easy for the bar grader to quickly identify and recognize your knowledge and intelligence. Don't overlook it! Here's a short clip from the 15:19 training.

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Issue Organization

Spotting issues on the bar exam is a massively important skill, and the graders have expectations for what you SHOULD be talking about, as well as WHERE they should be placed in your essay. Issue organization isn't just about how you spot and organize the issues you write about, but also about reading the essay question strategically to help you SEE all the issues that are there. Learn this crucial skill before you walk into the bar! Here's a short clip from the 32:24 training.

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Being Conclusory

There's some really simple ways to reframe your writing to avoid being conclusory in your analysis, which is one of the most common pitfalls examinees fall into. Understand the difference between supporting your legal conclusion and being conclusory and missing out on points. Here's a short clip from the 5:09 training.

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Matching, Thinking & The Essay Planning Grid

The difference between high scoring vs. mediocre essay answers comes down to the "A" section of your essay. There's actual two steps in an excellent analysis: (1) matching facts from the essay to the appropriate rules, and (2) the thinking you do beyond those facts that gets written down. I explain how these are different, and created a planning grid that you get to use in putting these pieces together. Here's a short clip from the 34:53 training.

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Thinking Like a Bar Grader

When you understand what a bar grader sees when they look at your essay - which is very, very, very different than what you see when you are writing your essay - you will learn how to write your answers in a way that presents your legal knowledge and understanding well, and makes it EASY for the grader to see your brilliance on the page and award you the points you want. Here's a short clip from the 24:50 training.

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Fact Usage & The Highlight Method

Ensuring you're using all the facts in your answer is important not just because it shows you whether you are missing issues, but it also make a difference in the quality of your analysis and overall answer score. Here's a short clip from the 46:38 training.

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