Category Archives: Exams & Exam Software

Taking exams with or without exam software.

Bar Prep iPhone App

MBE Timer costs $19.99 and is billed as a “powerful tool to help you improve your time management skills for the multiple-choice question portion of the state Bar Examination.”
It’s new, it’s shiny. Will it really help you prepare for the bar exam? I have no idea.

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LSAT Preparation

I’ve received a couple of notes from readers asking about LSAT preparation. I went with the Princeton Review’s Cracking the LSAT book, which in retrospect was probably not the best approach. Many online reviews and discussions with my classmates revealed that there were better routes I could have taken. However, I did better than I [...]

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Bar Exam Page Updates

I’ve been gathering state by state info about bar exam software, but so far I only have info on 13 states:

California
Georgia
Kentucky
Illinois
Iowa
Maryland
Minnesota
Nebraska
New York
Oregon
Texas
Utah
Virginia

Here’s a notable change from last year: There was something of a stir about New York not supporting Macs, but they now at least support Boot Camp use.
If you have definitive info on a [...]

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New York State Bar Says No to Macs

Matt W. sent me the tip on this one. It seems the New York Bar is coming down firmly in the “no Macs allowed” camp. Sure, they use SofTest, which is Windows-only. But ExamSoft has stated that Boot Camp works with their product, and several states (and these are just the ones I know of) [...]

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ExamSoft A Problem for California Bar Exam Takers?

This was sent to me by Wendy, who is frustrated by ExamSoft:
Currently the bar exam support for the California bar exam is terrible from SofTest. Many questions are unanswered and the bar exam takers are giving conflicting information. Two days before the exam although my Mac is fully registered to take the exam with the [...]

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