David D.
Full Content, Good Advice and Great Attitude
After teaching corporate and securities law for decades, I moved to a US jurisdiction that did not accept waiver from another US state. Because I wanted to return to practice, I had to take the bar exam. I selected BarMax as my review course to re-learn the large areas of the law I had forgotten and understand what the examiners expected of me in 2022. CONTENT offered by Bar Max was 1) about 1,500 MBE multiple choice questions with answers operating in both mobile apps and on desktop; 2) about 25 years of MEE questions with model answers and/or point sheets used by assessors, and 3) the same amount of Performance Tests. Of course, BarMax also had excellent course-length lectures on every subject tested, accompanied by comprehensive outlines and a full set of flash cards for each lecture. One comes away from the course with a gratifyingly comprehensive view of nearly all basic US common law, UCC Arts 2 and 9, as well as constitutional law and civil procedure. ADVICE was offered in real time through a comment section attached to every MBE question, through an essay markup function by which assessors got back comments on my essays next day, through an automatic analytics dashboard that let me know my performance metrics as I worked through hundreds of MBE questions and flash cards, and through live "office hours" held by friendly and encouraging, highly skilled exam-taker tutors. ATTITUDE was great, and very important for me. One cannot say that all the MBE questions are reasonable or that every MEE question is realistic. I know leading law professors who have never taken a bar exam and partners in global law firms who hold bar exams in contempt. That is not the way for an examinee to approach a 12-hour, make-or-break test. The tutors at BarMax consistently led users of the service back to the type of logic sought by the examination, away from skepticism, and toward a single goal - to perform well on the examination. I found it important that the tutors had all obviously been top law students and were masters of bar examinations - they were friendly, humble, meticulous and embedded deeply within the logic of the examination and the attitude necessary to perform well. Given that much of my work as a law professor had been focused on political economic questions - studying motivations behind the law - BarMax was extremely useful, if not indispensable, to turn my focus back to the kind of just-answer-the-question analytical thinking necessary to perform well on this one, crucial test. CAVEAT: After you pass the bar examination, unchain your skepticism and continue to probe the law with a common sense inquiry focused on justice, not performance - perhaps even work to change / improve the bar examination format. But as long as the examination exists in its current form and you must pass it to enter the profession, listen to the tutors at BarMax.



