Clearing the Last Hurdle: Mapping Success on the Bar Exam

Clearing the Last Hurdle: Mapping Success on the Bar Exam by Wanda M. Temm is designed as a comprehensive textbook for a for-credit bar preparation course. This all-inclusive textbook includes substantive outlines on all Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) topics and all Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) topics and is also easily adaptable for state-specific jurisdictions. Clearing the Last Hurdle focuses on guiding a law student in understanding the tasks involved in bar preparation; giving the student specific suggestions on how to study; and providing sufficient practice questions to improve the student's skills in answering MBE, essay, and performance test questions. In addition, it emphasizes using mind maps, which allow a student to make the necessary associations between concepts for better memory retention and recall, to order thinking about each topic. The book includes practice questions in all three formats--multiple choice, essay, and performance tests--with score sheets to more specifically guide students in how to review their practice answers. The teacher's manual includes student sample answers with score sheets to assist professors in understanding how to assess a bar exam essay.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• All-new essay questions (with score sheets)
• New MBE questions included
• Updated subject matter summaries

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Teachers Manual that includes graded student answers that teachers can use as examples or students can use in their self-assessment training
• Teachers Manual that includes autopsy worksheets
• Essay score sheets that break down the NCBE model answers into components for ease of understanding and memorization of rules as the NCBE expects.