Berman's Bar Exam PT Success: Strategies & Practice, 3d
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Description
Bar exams are tough. They last for days and test many subjects in different formats. They are super stressful. Some parts of the bar are familiar, such as multiple-choice questions; other parts may be new. Bar Exam PT Success helps train you for the best part of the bar exam, the PT – the “performance task” or “performance test.”
PT formats are tested on bar exams in almost every jurisdiction: states with the legacy UBE, states adopting the NextGen exam, California, and Nevada. PTs vary in length from 60 minutes to three hours. Bar Exam PT Success provides strategies and practice for PTs of every length.
With Bar Exam PT Success, readers get both the book itself which includes practice PTs from NextGen, California, and Nevada and online resources that include nearly a dozen additional practice exams – with some as short as 30 minutes – just to get your feet wet and become familiar with this critically important testing format.
Why are PTs the best part of the bar?
Learning to pass a PT is a bit like learning to ride a bike; once you learn how to successfully complete a PT, you never forget. PTs test skills and not memory. All you need is to take these three simple steps to PT success:
Bar Exam PT Success provides all of these: a clear and logical explanation of the PT; test-taking strategies, tips, and tools; and practice exams and sample answers.
Bar Exam PT Success also:
With the practice exams in Bar Exam PT Success, you will act as the lawyer and “represent” almost a dozen clients – some facing criminal charges, others embroiled in civil litigation, and some dealing with business transactions. You will draft memos, briefs, discovery plans, affidavits, closing arguments, cross examinations, letters to clients, and more.
Bar Exam PT Success gives you a down payment for success on the bar exam. Train well now with the book and practice exams and prepare to pass any PT the bar examiners throw at you. So, dig in! Enjoy this best part of the bar exam, and get ready for a meaningful and successful future as a lawyer.
PT formats are tested on bar exams in almost every jurisdiction: states with the legacy UBE, states adopting the NextGen exam, California, and Nevada. PTs vary in length from 60 minutes to three hours. Bar Exam PT Success provides strategies and practice for PTs of every length.
With Bar Exam PT Success, readers get both the book itself which includes practice PTs from NextGen, California, and Nevada and online resources that include nearly a dozen additional practice exams – with some as short as 30 minutes – just to get your feet wet and become familiar with this critically important testing format.
Why are PTs the best part of the bar?
- You can train early for PT Success. Students who get a head start and master the PT during law school have a distinct strategic advantage when they get to intensive bar review. Other students can gain an edge by learning how to pass the PT as soon as bar review begins, just after graduation. Whenever you begin your PT training, Bar Exam PT Success will be your guide and companion.
- PTs are practical and realistic. PTs test skills that require the kind of critical reading, analysis, and writing work that today’s lawyers actually do.
- PTs do not require memorization. They include libraries so you can look up relevant rules during the exam – just as you would in practice.
Learning to pass a PT is a bit like learning to ride a bike; once you learn how to successfully complete a PT, you never forget. PTs test skills and not memory. All you need is to take these three simple steps to PT success:
- Understand the exam and the skills PTs test,
- Develop a PT success strategy, and
- Practice, practice, practice.
Bar Exam PT Success provides all of these: a clear and logical explanation of the PT; test-taking strategies, tips, and tools; and practice exams and sample answers.
Bar Exam PT Success also:
- Provides exposure to practical lawyering skills that will help you transition effectively to law practice – a key part of the new NextGen bar exam;
- Helps law school come alive, especially if it sometimes feels like you are just reading and briefing cases; and
- Empowers you to see beyond your student identity and envision yourself as a future professional.
With the practice exams in Bar Exam PT Success, you will act as the lawyer and “represent” almost a dozen clients – some facing criminal charges, others embroiled in civil litigation, and some dealing with business transactions. You will draft memos, briefs, discovery plans, affidavits, closing arguments, cross examinations, letters to clients, and more.
Bar Exam PT Success gives you a down payment for success on the bar exam. Train well now with the book and practice exams and prepare to pass any PT the bar examiners throw at you. So, dig in! Enjoy this best part of the bar exam, and get ready for a meaningful and successful future as a lawyer.