Law School: Does law school prepare you to pass the bar exam?

Answer 1

8-5-2021

Many Law Schools have implemented a 3rd year "Bar Prep" course. Some of these Third Year Bar Prep courses are administered by the larger commercial providers serving as independent contractors to those law schools.

California requires all 1Ls in an unaccredited law school to take a 1L Bar Exam- referred to in the vernacular as the "Baby Bar". Obviously, this will help when the real Exam rolls around.

If you limit your law school courses, in large part, to the tested topics on the Bar Exam, your law school experience with those topics will clearly give you a leg up come Bar Exam Time.

I agree with Joshua that critical thinking skills, attended to in Law School, will greatly help on the Bar Exam.

See/ and obtain: "Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams" by Fishl and Paul (Amazon is a good source for this inexpensive book).

Many Professors "teach to the Bar Exam". This sounds more like a technical school, but if your primary goal is to pass the Bar (and not teach Jurisprudence in the years to come), this approach will be very helpful.

Answer 2

I believe this answer will differ based on the person answering. In my experience, law school only teaches a person to think critically.

The bar exam, has some critical analysis, but by and large it is formulaic. If you have a plan for the formula, and have graduated law school, there is no reason you cannot pass the bar exam.