After spending the better part of your college career studying for your law degree, you’ve decided it's time to take the bar exam. To give you the best chance of passing the exam so you can practice law in Florida, you need to make sure you are fully prepared for the Florida portion of the test. Here are some of the best ways to prepare yourself for the essay portion of the exam.
Create a calendar – figure out how many days you have left until the exam and decide how many essays you want to write per week. You want to write about each subject at least once. Since you are only g iven one hour to answer each question during the exam, limit yourself to this timeframe during your preparation.
Practice Highly Tested Subjects – as you are practicing, be sure to focus on some of the more highly tested subjects. These include:
• Contracts
• Family Law
• Florida Constitutional Law
• Ethics
• Real Property
• Torts
• Trusts
Focus on the IRAC format – examiners for the Florida bar exam suggest writing your essays in the IRAC format that can be found in several study guides. Focusi ng on the Issue, Rule, Analysis, and Conclusion of each issue is what examiners are looking for in each essay.
Examiners for the Florida bar exams are looking for “must haves” in each essay answer and grant points for every issue, analysis, knowledge of the law that you acknowledge and include in your answer. Focusing on the big picture rather than a small obscure rule of the law is the way to secure the highest score. John T Yeska Jr has been using these suggestions as he prepares for the Florida bar exam, which he plans to take in 2016.
Create a calendar – figure out how many days you have left until the exam and decide how many essays you want to write per week. You want to write about each subject at least once. Since you are only g iven one hour to answer each question during the exam, limit yourself to this timeframe during your preparation.
Practice Highly Tested Subjects – as you are practicing, be sure to focus on some of the more highly tested subjects. These include:
• Contracts
• Family Law
• Florida Constitutional Law
• Ethics
• Real Property
• Torts
• Trusts
Focus on the IRAC format – examiners for the Florida bar exam suggest writing your essays in the IRAC format that can be found in several study guides. Focusi ng on the Issue, Rule, Analysis, and Conclusion of each issue is what examiners are looking for in each essay.
Examiners for the Florida bar exams are looking for “must haves” in each essay answer and grant points for every issue, analysis, knowledge of the law that you acknowledge and include in your answer. Focusing on the big picture rather than a small obscure rule of the law is the way to secure the highest score. John T Yeska Jr has been using these suggestions as he prepares for the Florida bar exam, which he plans to take in 2016.