Foreign qualified lawyers who studied for the NY/any US state bar, did you use Barbri or Themis? Generally which would you recommend?

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Barbri. I completed aIl of it. It was gruelling but I ended up scoring with more than enough to spare.

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Is it possible to not do the 6/10 month course if you have an LLM? If so, do you just do a shorter one?

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I also used Themis and found most of the materials to be great. I didn’t stick to the schedule they put you on though, so if you have the books and access to timed test prep courses, you can still do well on a compressed timeline.

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I bought the Barbri books from a friend and didn’t sign up for the course.

BarMax for UBE. Barbri for MPRE. BarMax is a lot cheaper than Barbri and Themis, and still passed with plenty of room

I used Themis as it was more flexible and had access to Uworld for the MBE questions for the first attempt but personally I think the magic sheets and approsheets plus some GOATBarprep as supplement to a Themis foundation was much smoother for the successful second attempt.

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I used Themis for the CA bar. I was fine but also was Canadian and went to a Canadian law school and saw a lot of similarities in the materials.

I also used Adaptibar in conjunction with Barbri. It really helped me by gamifying UBE questions.

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