People keep asking for advice on how to prepare for the bar exam, so I thought it might be useful to write about how I studied for the bar. Naturally, I can't necessarily recommend that you prepare in the same way, but I'll tell you what I was thinking, and how it seemed to work out.
#1: I Didn't Take BARBRI
Cue collective gasps, but I didn't take BARBRI. Crazy, right?
My decision might have been different if I'd initially taken a harder bar exam, but the first exam I took was in Massachusetts, which has something like a 90% pass rate. I took it partly for that reason. (I clerked in Massachusetts, so it wasn't entirely random, but it was mostly because I couldn't decide between New York and