The Bar Review Course is an innovative, full-service bar review program designed specifically for the California Bar Exam. This flagship course prepares candidates for all three sections of the examination: Essay, Performance Test and Multistate Bar Exam. Instruction begins approximately 2 months before each examination.  Online access is available up to 4 months prior at no additional charge!

Substantive Law Lectures

The BarPassers Substantive Law Lectures make up approximately 60 percent of the Bar Review Course and are designed to summarize and highlight the testable areas of law for each bar exam subject. Students annotate the BarPassers flowcharts during more than 75 hours of lectures while laying a foundation for learning issue-spotting approaches and exam outlining and organizational skills. For a sample of our substantive law lecture on Criminal Law, print out a copy of the lecture handout and click here to listen.

Skills Workshops & Practice

The BarPassers Skills Workshops are a critical component of the Bar Review Course and make up the remaining 40 percent of the program. In the workshops, students learn essay writing approaches, performance test skills and multistate techniques. For a sample of our Criminal Law Essay Writing Workshop, print out a copy of the essay hypothetical, read and outline it, and click here to listen. The Skills Workshops include:

• 7 Essay Workshops (over 22 hours)
  Issue-spotting approaches for all subjects
  Organizational templates for most frequently tested topics
  Over 40 bar exam essay questions reviewed & analyzed
  Crossover questions identified, reviewed & analyzed
  Essay predictions
• 4 Performance Test Workshops (over 12 hours)
  The BarPassers Four-step Performance Test Approach Attack Plans to identify, organize & write most tested documents
  5 Performance Tests outlined, analyzed & reviewed in class
  Summaries of all performance tests from 1987 to present
  9 Performance Tests included with written model answers
• 6 Multistate Workshops (over 18 hours)
  Subject-specific approaches reviewed & analyzed
  Frequently tested topics identified & discussed for all subjects
  Over 200 MBE questions critiqued in class
• Practice, Practice, Practice
  14 essay exams assigned for grading & written evaluation
  2 performance tests assigned for grading & written evaluation
  Over 180 past bar exam essay questions with model answers
  Over 4000 MBE practice questions with detailed analysis
  3-Day Simulated Bar Exam
  
  (*Please see Practice Exam Grading for details on how to submit additional exams for grading and written evaluation.)

Course Materials

The BarPassers materials* are included at no extra charge and are integrated to create repetition and facilitate memory retention. They are updated for every review course and include the:

• Volume I - Multistate Subject Outlines
• Volume II - California Subject Outlines
• Chartbook (lecture handouts & summary flowcharts)
• California Course Materials volume (In-class workbook)
• California Essay Workbook
• California Performance Test Workbook
• Multistate Practice Questions volume
• Multistate Software

*Subject to change without notice