Some Thoughts to Consider

One of the most important things to keep in mind while preparing for the bar exam and also when sitting down to take the exam is this. The Bar Exam is as much about testing your ability to prepare for and take the exam as it is about testing your legal knowledge. Informal studies show that most lawyers use, on a regular basis, less than 60% of the legal information covered on the bar exam. For many lawyers it is less than 40% or even 30% of what was covered on the bar exam. Those findings and statistics are likely a glaring indication of why most of the commercial review courses are taught by law professors and even bar examiners and not by people who had to take and pass a bar examination in order to make a living. There is actually a disconnect between the bar examination and the practice of law.

In the context of preparing for the bar examination, what that means is that there are two dimensions to your prepartion. First is knowing how to prepare and what you are preparing for. Second is the vast quantum of information that must be accumulated, ingested, organized and stored for retrevial during the exam. Commercial Bar Review Courses focus on the latter. Only PASS THE FREAK'N EXAM™ concentrates exclusively on the former.

It is a fact that more than fifty percent of the students at most schools in the nation will pass the bar exam; as many as even 90% of the students at some schools. More critical, though, is the fact that almost 100% of the students who take the bar exam will experience acute stress and anxiety in the months, weeks and days leading up to the exam and including the days and hours during which they take the exam. Having the insight and counsel from someone who has gone through that process, successfully, multiple times over a period of more than 15 years, will go a very long way towards helping you get control over the stress and anxiety. Sitting down to the exam with the pent up desire to "DO THIS THING" is a whole lot better then sitting down with the all consuming fear of "OH MY GOD, ITS NOW OR NEVER." Knowing that you are likely to pass, or knowing that you are more likely to pass if you control the stress and anxiety; which would you prefer?

Most bar review courses take six weeks or more to cover the information, the massive amount of information, that every exam taker needs to "know" in order to be successful. Some review courses will even take time to give everyone some general guidelines for what to expect. Ask yourself, though, "are general guidelines enough when your career is on the line?" You have paid out tens of thousands to get access to the knowledge, why would you want to skimp on the critical aspect of knowing how to handle and use that information in way that capitalizes on healthy stress and builds extra confidence.

Only PASS THE FREAK'N EXAM™ concentrates on delivering to its participants the critical knowledge and techniques regarding "how to prepare" which can help you grab control of the stress while you go through the preparation process. Only PTFE™ gives you the insight accumulated over a period of now more than 20 years, from hundreds and thousands of exam takers so that you don't have to wait for the exam to discover what it is going to take to prepare successfully. Understanding during the lunch break on day two that "Oh, that's what I should have been doing," is not a desired out come. PTFE™ gets you ready to prepare, gets you ready to successfully complete your review program, gets you ready to be more ready than the rest.

You can't mix the catalyst into the agent after its already set. You've invested the money in the review program but before you invest your time, sign up for the Catalytic Agent, for the Propaedeutic Seminar. Learn how to learn. Take the PTFE™ Seminar and be ready to run the race, to run the marathon that is two months of intense preparation followed by a three day(or two day for some jurisdictions) sprint. Only PTFE™ is designed to have you looking forward to both the marathon and the sprint. Be prepared. Be ahead of the herd. Be in front of the curve.

A Final Thought:

Don't be like the young lad in Tom Sawyer who "...once recited three thousand verses without stopping; but the strain upon his mental faculties was too great and he was little better than an idiot from that day forth -- a grievous misfortune…"

(If I had A Blue Book with me, I'd give you the precise citation but, hey I already passed

three bar exams and these thoughts are for you not the Supreme Court.)