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Conquering the Bar Exam Program Resources Each semester, the Department of Academic Achievement offers a series of substantive lectures intended to help students in their final semester prepare for the bar exam.  Each week's program will be independent of the others; students can miss one and still attend the rest. The programs are designed to help no matter where the student plans to take the bar exam. The lectures cover the Multistate Bar Exam subjects. Support of the program is provided by BarBri.  A BarBri Essay Advantage Workshop will also be held each semester.  To attend the Essay Advantage Workshop, students must register for the BarBri regular, post-graduation bar review course.

The following are resources used in the Conquering the Bar Exam program:

• Preparing for State Essay Questions
  Most states, including Oklahoma, devote a full day to essay questions about the law of that state.1 The length and number of questions vary from state to state. In Oklahoma, there are sixteen thirty-minute questions (sometimes, the two Professional Responsibility questions are combined into a single hour-long question).
• General Ideas on Preparing for the Bar Exam
  Preparing for the February 2006 Multistate Bar Exam
  The Multistate Bar Exam is a significant part of the bar exam in every state except Illinois, Louisiana, and Washington. You will have three hours in the morning to complete 100 multiple-choice questions based on six subjects, and three hours in the afternoon to answer another 100 multiple choice questions.
  All questions are based on national law, and the National Conference of Bar Examiners screens out questions that would favor or disfavor test-takers from a particular state or region.
• The Multistate Bar Exam: Subjects Tested
  The Multistate Bar Examinaton (MBE) consumes a full day of the bar exam in every state except Illinois, Louisiana, and Washington.
  The National Conference of Bar Examiners website, , contains this list of subjects and doctrines that the MBE tests. Each part of the list describes how many questions on the exam will concern each particular doctrine.
• Bar Exan Subjects in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas
  Here are the subjects covered by the essay component of the bar examinations in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri. Each of these states also requires the Multistate Bar Examination, which covers Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Evidence, Property, and Torts.
• Suggestions for a Working Student
  From materials prepared by Cindy Olson, '04.  Ms. Olson had a white-collar job with considerable responsibilities at Oklahoma Gas & Electric during her four years as an evening student at OCU. She passed the Oklahoma Bar Exam on her first try.
• Bar Review Checklist
  Complied by M.C. Smothermon, '02.