Daniel Garrett

Why Watching Lectures Is Keeping You From Passing the Bar Exam If you’re studying for the bar exam right now, there’s a good chance your day looks something like this: You wake up. You open your course. You hit play. And then you spend the next three to five hours watching lectures. At the end of the day, you feel like you did something productive. You covered material. You followed the plan. You stayed “on track.” But your score isn’t moving. You’re still stuck in the same range. You’re...

Mentally preparing for bar exam results is...not easy. You finish the exam. You’re done studying. There’s nothing left to fix. And now you have been waiting for weeks (months) for May 1st. That kind of waiting can wear on you, even if you’re doing your best to stay busy and move forward. The Loop During prep, if something felt off, you could do something about it. You could study more, review a topic, or run another set of questions. There was always a next move. Now there isn’t. The result...

The Task Memo The PT is much more formulaic than people think. The February 2026 California PT is a good example. Once you strip away the subject matter and the intimidating language, the task becomes much more straightforward. The first thing you should notice is that the memo tells you exactly what you are doing, as it always does. You are preparing a brief in support of a motion in limine seeking to exclude a handwritten transcript of text messages. A lot of examinees probably got hung up...