Re: BarBri or MicroMash Bar Review

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Please let me know how you felt about the microMash prep. I also live too many
miles away from a locale that offers Barbri. I am also not sure which plan I should
really be considering. Did you choose the Excel? If so did you find the mentor
program to be very useful and did you use the mentor enough to justify paying for
the excel v. the plus. Any input would be greatly appreciated. I am sitting for
the Texas Bar in July 08. Thanks 8-)

On 2/22/08, Grant McEwen wrote:
> I am taking the Texas Bar Exam in February, and I have been going through
> MicroMash. I chose MicroMash because I live about 50 miles away from the closest
> place they give Bar/Bri. I think that had I lived closer to such a place, I would
> have rather taken Bar/Bri because it is more structured. If you are a
> procrastinator type, DON'T take this course. But if you can pace yourself and
> force yourself to study a little bit more (which is hard, especially if you are
> almost done with law school or you have already graduated), and you are a visual
> rather than audio learner, then take this course.
>
> I am doing both the MBE and State portions. I feel like I will be very prepared
> for the MBE portion because they give you almost 2400 questions to work through,
> and very, very few questions testing the exact same point of law. So it is
> extremely comprehensive. The state portions are okay, but there are a few glaring
> typos. The state materials cover three books, with a fourth book full of practice
> questions and model answers, and a fifth book that has practice MPT materials. In
> terms of the MBE materials, they have three books: two that cover the 6 subjects
> tested, and a third that has condensed outlines that they suggest you go over
> before you start answering questions on the software. All in all, you should be
> confident if you go with these guys. I'll let you know how I do.