Bar Review Information

Updated August 5, 2020. Originally published June 24, 2019. 

The Empire State officially replaced the New York Bar Exam with the Uniform Bar Exam...

You learn more by doing. That’s true of riding a bike, driving a car, and even preparing for the bar exam.

Updated June 12, 2020. Originally published April 27, 2018.

Sample Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) questions are favorite tools of law students during...

You’ll hear it over and over again: Preparing for the bar exam is a marathon, not a sprint. Yes, it’s a cliche. Allow us another: Cliches are...

Updated May 1, 2020. Originally published August 25, 2017. 

It's the moment of truth. Your phone alerts you to that long-awaited email from the...

Updated April 29, 2020.  Originally published April 23, 2018. 

The results came in an email. The news was nothing less than excruciating. You ...

Updated April 27, 2020. Originally published May 1, 2018. After all of the sacrifices you made last fall and winter, you’ve learned that you...

Updated April 25, 2020. Originally published May 30, 2018. 

The results are in, and only 40% of all candidates passed the February 2020 Uniform...

The key to passing the bar is simple in theory, difficult in practice: Do everything in your power to prepare for it. That includes taking a bar...

Originally published March 25, 2020, updated April 6, 2020. We'll continue to make updates as more information on the coronavirus and the July...

Originally published March 24, 2016. Updated March 11, 2020.

You’re two weeks removed from the February Bar Exam. It’s done! You can officially...

Let’s get this out of the way: You can’t cram your way to passing the bar. It takes months to cover the sheer mountain of material, not to mention...

Originally published April 20, 2017. Updated January 2, 2020.

There’s no getting around it. On exam day, it’s you versus the bar. But wouldn’t you...

How well do you write?

Originally published November 29, 2016. Updated December 3, 2019.

The holidays are hectic enough, but trying to study for the February bar exam...

You have your books and appropriate notes from law school rounded up. You’ve signed up for a bar prep course. But getting started on studying for...

Erase the all-nighter from your studying playbook. It won’t help you here. The bar exam is unlike any test you’ve ever taken and mandates...

Originally published November 22, 2016. Updated November 12, 2019.

As you no doubt know, states have released their bar exam results over the past...

Originally published September 21, 2015. Updated October 16, 2019. 

In addition to passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), the New York Board of Law...

No one gets through law school alone. Whether you’re in 1L, 2L, or heading down the stretch and ramping up your bar exam study, these 10 apps will...

Originally published January 27, 2017. Updated October 3, 2019. 

In addition to passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), New York Bar Exam candidates...

No studying technique is wrong if it helps you pass the bar exam. After all, that’s your ultimate goal, right?

The “Pieper People Pass” motto is proven each year in part because Pieper students buy into their courses.

The bar exam is the most important test of a law student’s life, but it’s hardly the only one. For admittance to the bar, you’ll most likely have...

Passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) may be the most difficult undertaking of your academic and professional career. Pieper Bar Review is here to...

To practice law in the state of New York, there are several hurdles you’ll have to clear, besides passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). The New York...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is the multiple-choice component of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). It’s extremely difficult to earn a high score on...

Many students perceive the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) to be a breeze when compared with the almighty bar exam. And they’re...

Studying for the bar can be a grueling process—one that you’d prefer to avoid repeating, if possible. To maximize your chances for success, you’ll...

When you’re training for the biggest test of your life, you want the best Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) course, and best instructors, on your...

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) is a three-part, 12-hour test, that for most law school graduates, requires upward of 400 hours of rigorous study to...

The path to passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) isn’t always clear. Fortunately, you’re not the first person to take it, and prior takers'...

Reading review books, attending lectures or watching them online, and maybe even studying with a group of fellow law students are all common...

Originally published March 18, 2016. Republished December 17, 2019. 

When an important test, such as the bar exam, approaches, it's natural for...

So you’re looking to improve your score for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), the multiple-choice portion of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). Maybe you’ve...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is the multiple-choice section of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). It's a six-hour examination featuring 200...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is a critical portion of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). It’s made up of multiple-choice questions and designed to...

For third-year law students, finishing exams is just the beginning of a long, hard-fought grand finale. The only thing standing between you and...

Originally published December 7, 2017. Updated July 23, 2018. 

The Uniform Bar Exam is administered by the National Conference of Bar Examiners in...

When you sign up for Concentrated Review with Pieper, you're taking the first step toward achieving your goal: to prepare for and conquer the July...

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) is designed not only to test your knowledge of the law, but your dedication to it, as well. One way is through the...

The Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) component of the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) is delivered on the Tuesday before the last Wednesday in...

The Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) is one of the required tests candidates must pass to be admitted to the bar. This two-hour...

At Pieper Bar Review, preparing you for success on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) is our top priority, and we take this responsibility seriously. We...

While you can study all the information that'll be on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) for months, it's unlikely you'll be successful without the help...

Failing the bar exam is devastating. You put in a ton of hard work and effort and didn't get the results you wanted. Though failing is tough to...

We understand that each and every one of our students has their own unique needs. Some simply want our basic course, while others require add-ons,...

Law students surely know about the bar exam, but many may be unaware it's comprised of several different sections: the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE),...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) section of the Uniform Bar Exam consists of 200 multiple-choice questions—175 scored, and 25 unscored pretest...

Choosing your bar review course is an important decision. Not only are such courses expensive investments, they'll also determine how prepared you...

Whether you're retaking the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) or taking it for the first time, preparing isn't easy. Even with the help of a bar review...

When preparing for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), it's not enough just to know the information. A critical part of being successful on the MBE is...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is the most heavily weighed section of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), accounting for 50% of your final score. So, how...

In today's day and age, just about everything can be done online, including your Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) review. This enables you to re-watch its...

The Uniform Bar Exam has three components, is broken up over the course of two days, and requires months of preparation.

Luckily, passing the bar...

Preparation is critical to achieving success on the bar exam, and it requires a significant amount of time dedicated to studying. Yet discovering...

As your bar review course and months of relentless studying finally wind down, you may be wondering: "Am I ready for the bar exam?" Although it...

Since its creation in 2011, states across the country have rapidly embraced the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), a standardized test created by the ...

Finding the right bar review course is crucial to your success on the UBE. You need a program that provides the comprehensive knowledge and...

You only have 30 minutes for each of the six essays on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE)—and they fly by lightning fast! With so much to process and...

The July 2019 Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) is right around the corner. Choosing the right bar review course to best prepare you for this all-important...

Taking notes is an important part of learning, understanding, and digesting the information you need to know for the bar exam. Most students find...

When bar exam results come out, thousands of candidates across the country learn that they failed. If you’re one of them, always remember that...

Foreign attorneys often have very impressive resumes. They've acquired experience and credentials from top international law firms and prestigious...

Virtually everyone who prepares to take the bar exam does so with the help of a bar review course. The reason most people taking the bar exam...

Whether you're studying for the bar exam for the first or second time, you might wish you had a little extra help. A bar exam tutor is a great way...

One of the most frustrating things about getting your bar exam results back is the lack of information you receive about your score. You'll get...

In order to pass the bar exam, you need to make the most of your study time. Ask anyone who's passed the bar, and they'll tell you that the best...

Bar exam candidates have to master a lot of information in order to pass the bar. From our years of helping students prepare properly, we have...

Having the proper study environment can be as important for your bar exam preparation as knowing what you need to study. As you prepare for the...

As a Uniform Bar Exam candidate, you'll want to do everything in your power to ensure that you'll pass the bar exam the first time around. After...

The Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, commonly known as the MPRE, is an exam with 60 multiple-choice questions that almost every...

By the time the bar exam comes around, you have spent countless hours studying and preparing. You took a bar review course, did multiple-choice...

If you’re taking the bar exam this year, you may not be able to use your MacBook laptop. Some states are banning the use of the newest MacBook...

Bar exam candidates from every state, except Louisiana, will have to face the Multi-State Bar Exam (MBE) come exam day.  This is the...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is the multiple-choice section of the Uniform Bar Exam that includes 200 questions. Previously, out of those 200...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) consists of 200 multiple-choice questions to answer in six hours. You have a little less than 2 minutes for each...

Picking a bar review course is never easy. Most likely, this is the most important test you will ever take, so who you choose to help you prepare...

Procrastination—we’re all guilty of it. It is easy to keep postponing an unpleasant (but important) task like studying for the bar exam. Sometimes...

The Pieper Bar Review winter course is upon us. Classes to prepare law students to pass the Uniform Bar Exam this February start December 16.

As someone who will be taking the bar exam soon, you spend hours on end studying. If you’ve ever studied in a public space without headphones on,...

While preparing for the bar exam, you’ll probably spend hours at a time studying. It’s tedious, exhausting, and requires a lot of brain power....

Today’s job market is incredibly competitive. Employers commonly wait to extend offers until after prospective candidates have passed the bar exam...

Law school graduates around the country who took the bar exam in July 2016 have been finding out the results. While many of them will be happy to...

So you spent months studying for the bar exam, and sadly you just found out you failed. We’re sure you think everyone knows—even your mailman—and...

The MPRE is almost here! This gets you one step closer to officially becoming a licensed attorney.

Although it would be great simply to come to class and absorb all the knowledge just by listening, most people cannot learn that way—especially...

With only three hours to complete six essays on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE), your time is so limited you won't be able to create a...

Pulling all-nighters is a time-honored study practice. It’s likely that every student at some point has stayed up all night long cramming for a...

The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) is the multiple-choice section of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). Test-takers must answer 200 questions in the allotted...

Considering all the work that lies ahead of you, figuring out how to get motivated to actually sit down and start studying for the bar exam may...

So you’ve finally taken the bar exam. For months, you were engulfed in reading materials and practice questions, barely finding time to sleep....

In addition to passing the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), anyone seeking admission to the bar in New York must complete both the New York Law Course...

It’s your last semester of law school. You’re almost there—you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. But don't lose your focus just yet. You...

Another day, another test. Becoming a lawyer not only requires a great deal of time, energy and money, but it also involves exams—a pile of them—...

Joining dozens of states across the country, Massachusetts recently announced that it is adopting the Uniform Bar Exam.

With the bar exam quickly approaching, time is running out and stress levels are probably running high. But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to...

The Multistate Performance Test (MPT) is a component of the bar exam that aims to assess test-takers’ legal problem-solving skills. The bar...

The Multistate Essay Exam, or the MEE, appears on the first day of bar exams throughout the country, including the Uniform Bar Exam and many...

Bad study habits are hard to break. But when you’re trying to prepare for the bar exam, you have to try. Though it may be a struggle, it’s not...

Feeling nervous before you take the bar exam is completely normal. In fact, if you weren’t at least a little anxious, that would be cause for...

While everyone else you know is going on vacation, heading to the beach and working on their tans, you’re spending the majority of your summer...

Some people prefer to study in complete silence, while others thrive in a noisy location. As you prepare for the bar exam, your most optimal study...

Whenever anyone offers you advice pertaining to the bar exam, creating some type of study schedule usually tops the list. Most likely your review...

As New York, Vermont and Washington, D.C., prepare to administer their first Uniform Bar Exams (UBEs) this July, and New Jersey and South Carolina...

Preparing for the bar exam is an uphill battle. With only a couple of months left to study for it and classes for the July ’16 Uniform Bar Exam...

It’s that time of year again when law students graduate and find they have about one minute to take a breath before they turn their attention to...

It’s likely that when you tell people you’re getting ready to take the bar exam, their reactions are nothing short of priceless—usually they...

The results for the most recent New York Bar Exam, which took place this past February, have officially been released, and it looks like more than...

Eighty-one days.

If you took the bar exam in February, you probably received your results by now or you will soon. With the latest scores in hand, the National...

As we look at the February bar exam in the rearview mirror, we can see the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) right around the corner, so we’re getting ready...

It’s difficult to think of any instance when procrastination has a positive outcome. Most of the time, you just end up with frustration. You’ve taken...

Since its introduction in 2011 when it was used in only one state, the UBE has exploded onto the national scene. Now adopted by twenty states and...

On July 16, 1984, John M. Pieper—founder of Pieper Bar Review—was featured in a New York Times article about the company’s growth, his passion for...

And New Jersey makes 22.

Stress is inevitable when you’re in the middle of preparing for the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). At times, the strain may seem impossible to manage,...

Picking the right bar review course is a crucial step in passing the bar exam, but sometimes students overlook the importance of this decision or...

According to The New York Times, the American Bar Association (ABA) is now setting a new deadline for law schools to meet bar passage rate...

When law students begin studying for the bar, they are oftentimes overwhelmed by the amount of material they have to cover. Many tend to become...

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) is unlike any other test you will ever have to take. And although the preparation process is important whenever you...

Students can and should take advantage of the internship opportunities offered through their law school. Even more importantly, students should...

No one knows better than you what it took to earn your law degree. Now you face the challenge of finding a job after law school so you can get...

Congratulations! In your first semester you made a deposit on a bar review course! Now all you have to do is show up to class and pass the exam....

In order to pass the bar exam, you will need some guidance. Even if you’re a conscientious student who always studies ahead of time, the bar exam...

Preparing for the bar exam is a demanding exercise that seems to take priority over whatever else you may have to do. When you’re attending law...

Pieper Bar Review has been helping students pass the NY bar exam for more than four decades, and in light of the Empire State moving to the UBE,...

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) was first adopted by Missouri in 2011, and over the past five years, a number of other jurisdictions have followed in...

Getting ready for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) requires more than just knowing the format and reviewing the material....

For most students, studying for the bar exam a solitary experience that involves attending lectures in silence (whether it be in person or...

Studying for the bar is stressful enough. Students don’t want to be unprepared because they didn’t have a clear idea about the format or the...

Getting and staying organized is a major part of studying for the bar. Without putting a plan into place, you may not study as much as you need...

Sometimes no matter how much you study for the bar exam, you still cannot absorb the information. You paid attention in class. You completed all...

In a matter of months, New York will administer the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) for the first time and start accepting UBE scores transferred from...

Nobody likes to fail an exam. There’s stress, frustration, and self-recrimination. It makes you want to doubt yourself. But when it comes to...

When you were a kid, did you ever have to write sentences for bad behavior, such as: “I will not talk back” or “I will not call out in class” 20...

Take Courses that will Help You Professionally:

Now that your required courses are done, you should take advantage of the courses your school...

This fall more than 4,000 law school graduates planning to practice law in New York State learned that they did not pass the July bar exam. If...

You failed the bar exam. What now?

Law school is an exciting and important time. It can also be completely overwhelming. You’ve worked so hard to get here. You want to do everything...

The Court of Appeals just announced that as of July 2016, New York will adopt the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). This change has brought about confusion...

By John Gardiner Pieper. Originally published Nov. 5, 2014 by the New York Law Journal