Recommendations on study material for the California bar attorney's exam? TIA

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Smart bar outline is pretty solid

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Baressays.com

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Themis outlines; Essay Writing for the California Bar Exam (I think that's the name of the book, it's the main one, blue cover), the other associate who posted the smart bar prep outline is very good, you can get the essay frequency with issue and sub issues broken down. Sample answers they have online. Adaptibar I heard is good (but I took the essay portion only for the attorney exam. And my personal favorite, the Reddit app which was GREAT to discuss the exam with. Good luck!!

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Also if you like flash cards, critical pass is great. There’s a ton of material out there…so just throwing one more your way! I really liked alternating critical pass with smart bar (all to supplement Barbri). Good luck indeed!

I took it in 2019. I did Kaplan for the first 46 days, then Adaptibar for multiple choice and some book on essays by a female author whose name I cant recall (Mary?), plus flash cards for the last 2 weeks. Treated it as a 9-5 M-F job. I can find the title of the book if you're really interested, it was like the Bible for essays. Passed on my first try

Mary Basick is the author. Literally miles ahead of the feedback I got from Kaplan

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