Advanced Analysis in Pre-Bar Skills

Advanced Analysis in Pre-Bar Skills - Professor Sandy Patrick

• Course Type: Foundational
• Credits: 2 (credit/no credit scale)
• Enrollment Limit: Determined by the Registrar; must have completed at least 56 credits to register
• Description: Advanced Analysis in Pre-bar Skills is designed to enhance a variety of skills you will need to complete the NextGen bar exam successfully. Specifically, you will work on substantive skills such as reading comprehension, issue identification, rule mastery, recognition of distractors, critical thinking, and analytical thinking and writing. You will also gain a conceptual understanding and knowledge of legal doctrine in a highly tested subject area while you practice targeted techniques to help you encode and retain the material. Using problems and exercises in a bar exam format, you will learn techniques for answering multiple-choice questions and for analyzing, organizing, and writing both the integrated question section and the practical writing section of the exam. You will also learn how to maximize your individual test preparation and test-taking skills, including the analytical and time-management strategies needed for test day. Finally, you will develop a personalized study system designed to support the sustained work required to pass the bar. This system will be tailored to each student’s particular needs and circumstances, addressing individual learning modalities and cognitive strengths, time-management techniques, and ways to balance multiple obligations like family, work, and bar study.
• Prerequisite: none
• Evaluation Method: Exam Simulations and Short Papers

  Your grade will be based on the following:

  Successful completion of homework assignments, including creating a library of study materials, watching substantive lectures, working practice sets, doing in-class writing assignments, and conferencing with the professor.

  Completion of all simulations, including a short Midterm Exam, a Practical Test, and the Final Exam.

• Capstone: no
• WIE: no
• Programs: none
• Themes: Bar Exam, Skills