253: Bar Exam Best Practices - Creating Good Habits

The Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast: Pass the Bar Exam with Less Stress

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about creating great bar exam study habits and ones that would be useful in your life in general.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Learning through doing the things that make you uncomfortable
• Finding your learning style
• Why you should allow yourself to make mistakes
• Time-tracking your daily activities
• Using spaced repetition to memorize information
• Keeping your focus while studying
• Stacking new habits onto existing ones

Resources:

• Writing of the Week (WOW) Bar Essay Workshop (https://barexamtoolbox.com/writing-of-the-week-wow-bar-essay-workshop/)
• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, by Adam Grant (https://adamgrant.net/book/hidden-potential/)
• Forest app (https://www.forestapp.cc/)
• Podcast Episode 30: Changing Bad Bar Exam Study Habits and Setting Useful Goals (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-30-changing-bad-bar-exam-study-habits-and-setting-useful-goals/)
• Podcast Episode 125: Best Practices for Studying for an Online Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-125-best-practices-for-studying-for-an-online-bar-exam/)
• Podcast Episode 211: Building New Habits While Studying for the Bar Exam (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-211-building-new-habits-while-studying-for-the-bar-exam/)
• Podcast Episode 221: Quick Tips – Tools for Handling Distractions During Bar Study (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-221-quick-tips-tools-for-handling-distractions-during-bar-study/)
• Podcast Episode 244: Spaced Repetition and Memorization During Bar Prep (w/Gabe Teninbaum) (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-244-spaced-repetition-and-memorization-during-bar-prep-w-gabe-teninbaum/)
• Podcast Episode 245: Quick Tips – Memorization Techniques for the Different Learning Styles (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-245-quick-tips-memorization-techniques-for-the-different-learning-styles/)
• How to Pass the Bar By Doing What Makes You the Most Uncomfortable (https://barexamtoolbox.com/how-to-pass-the-bar-by-doing-what-makes-you-the-most-uncomfortable/)

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Alison & Lee