I am taking Part A of the Florida bar (Florida specific only) in February. Any study tips / materials people can share? Thanks in advance!

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For essays you need to create and memorize 1-2 paragraphs per topic that contains all essential rules for that topic. Even IF they end up not applicable to the essay. It gives you points and focuses you.

Create these, memorize them and write them. Multiple times a day. You need to be able to recite these like your life depends on it.

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I found Jon Grossman’s whatstheissue to be most helpful for the FL part. You can purchase all subjects or just specific subjects. Also consider reaching out to him directly— I hired him to create weekly/bi-weekly practice schedules for me. Prep can be costly but it’s worth it to ensure you pass.

Also agree with the above— can’t stress enough the importance of recitations of rules regularly. I used a whiteboard to repeatedly write out rules. Also just tried to recite rules multiple times a day regardless of what I was doing (brushing teeth, cooking, shower, driving, etc).

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I passed the July 2023 bar exam, and I agree with the above comments. I used Jon Grossman’s whatstheissue. I outlined each essay video then memorized each outline verbatim. This just gives you the rule statements and definitions—you’ll still need to understand how to apply these rules to the facts presented.

For Part A multiple choice, I did every set of practice questions that Barbri provided 2-3 times.

Focus on Part B lol the MBE is the only reason I passed that crapshoot bc I scientifically had to get a good score on that after doing 4000 practice questions. I watched a single 3 hour Sandin whats the issue family law video before the bar, did zero seconds of any additional review on that subject. I must have spent 100s of hours studying torts and crim or whatever the other two more traditional essay subjects were last July, just overall in my numerous bar attempts. Somehow, I got a 64/90 on family law essay and 20/90 on torts, and I'm a personal injury lawyer and don't know shit about family law lol. I relate this story to you to illustrate that Part A is a complete crapshoot, hence why it's referred to as the "casino." ahah. Definitely do the FBBE sample questions for Part A MC, but then I would just keep re writing MBE black letter law rules and snort question after question on Barbri or what have you. This is the exact strategy I implemented to finally pass that monter after being short by 2 and then 1 point overall the three previous administrations. Take it out of the graders hands and put everything on the MBE, this is the way. Godspeed my brother/sister I am pulling for you and will see you in court some day soon, counselor :D

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