BarMax Bar Exam, MBE & MPRE Reviews

Great Choice for Bar Prep

Medi8r

After more than 10 years out of law school California, I had a lot of doubts about my prospects for success on the Maine UBE. But BarMax was just what I needed. I listened to all the lectures twice, completed almost all the online MBE questions, and passed with 40 points to spare. Thanks, BarMax, for putting me over the top!

Worked for me.

RedBeardJD

I graduated in May 2016 and started clerking for a district court judge in Saint Paul, MN, in June 2016. The legal job market in the Twin Cities is externally competitive and I could not pass up the opportunity for employment. I took the MN Bar in the summer of 2016 and again in the summer of 2017. I used Kaplan as a study resource, but could not find a good balance between keeping up their study schedule, working, and keeping myself somewhat sane. The BarMax app enabled me to easily listen to lectures and drill multiple choice questions whenever I had downtime. I enjoyed BarMax and felt it was worth the investment. I sat for the MN Bar again this past February, passed, and will be sworn in this coming May.

Very deceiving

bullet dodged

Followed the directions on the site to apply for the public interest scholarship. 2 days later I was told that I did not qualify for it with no explanation as to why. I did exactly what was instructed which was to send a letter explaining intent to pursue career in public interest and that I would pay it back if I did not follow through. I also sent over a copy of my resume showing I worked a a clerk with the MI AG’s office as will as PD’s office in FL. After I was told I did not qualify I sent over a screenshot of what the website stated. After I sent the email I got a response from Lauren saying she was sorry but I still did not qualify with no explanation. I forwarded all of my communication with her to any email address I could find associated with BarMax. I checked the website again and the added a note to it stating that you may not be approved. I still have the screenshot to show that it was not present previously. While I’m pleased to see the subsequent remedial measures taken, I’m disgusted with the way they operate. I am also glad I found out that they do shady business before investing any of my money at all. Buyer beware.

Great results on MPRE with BarMax!!

jwalljd07

BarMax was essential to me passing the MPRE! I used the program as directed and listened to the lectures and followed along with the outline most of the time, other times I just listened. Then I reviewed the flash cards and did the review questions. The lectures were broken down into short digestible sections. This made it easy to absorb and retain the information. My overall score with BarMax’s free MPRE program from was about a 78 but I ended up with a scaled score of 116 in the February 2018 MPRE. I would definitely recommend this program to prepare for the MPRE. Thanks again BarMax!

Needs improvement

passed but not impressed

The app crashed and froze frequently, especially in the weeks leading up to the exam. Key subjects had few multiple choice examples to test your knowledge thoroughly such as civ pro.Very few hints of testable material. Some subjects were summarized well, but others required research on the web to make up for the lack of substance to achieve my pass. It may get students over the line with less effort than other courses but given what is on the line, my recommendation would be to go with the more main stay bar courses.

Barmax

Cynthia Sherman

I passed the mpre with the help of barmax. Now using 1L barmax - wished i had known of it earlier!!! Cynthia

Extremely poor customer service

Jaidanyd

Support team is useless. Wish I would’ve read the reviews before purchase.

No dead weight; a lean mean bar exam reasoning machine!

Chuk888

Love the way it integrates the substantive lessons with the issue spotting, examples and historic bar exam questions. One single process, instead of three.

BarMax is Terrific

Dr. Archie

I am a very busy doctor and clinical scientist. Therefore, I haven’t had the time to sit for the Bar exam as of yet. However, I’ve been enrolled in a number of Bar exam material, and BarMax is clearly the best resources available. I’m very confident that I’ll pass on the first with this Bar exam material. Dr. Archie Johnson

Don’t waste your money

Seriouslythereviewtho

I am a practicing attorney and purchased this course to study for the bar exam in another state (i.e., this wasn’t my first bar exam or bar prep course). I knew for the price I wasn’t getting all the bells and whistles of Barbri but for what this costs, I was expecting something that would bring me up to speed on all the topics and I would supplement with what I already knew about the exam from my prior experience and course. This was utterly useless and I ended up completely abandoning this course and purchasing materials from Studicata which were far more user friendly, helpful, and on point for about a tenth of the price of this course. The problem with this course is it is a bunch of lecturers who first tell you all the reasons they are so wonderful and smart and then go on to simply read lengthy outlines to you ad nauseam, most without any insight into the actual exam, for example, which topics are highly tested and which topics are highly tested and which are only rarely tested. This is extremely useful information when you’re trying to learn and retain 15 subjects at once. It’s as though these lecturers have forgotten the goal is to PASS the exam, and not to bog you down with every single iota of information down to how to calculate your grandmother’s uncles stepsons cousin’s per capita share in the event that she dies intestate without any heirs. Maybe Harvard grads have time for that and the attention span and retention ability to prepare as though there is a golden ticket for scoring in the top 1%, but for the rest of us, I can’t recommend this course as a useful tool for preparing for the actual exam. In addition to the extremely tedious lectures, you get some really awful half-completed outlines with no room for completing them and/or taking any notes while you listen to the lectures, and past exams and answers, all of which are available on the UBE website, with no additional answers or explanations of essay answers or additional information whatsoever. So really all you get for the price are the tedious lectures, useless outlines, publicly available test materials, some flash cards, and the test questions broken down by topic. For comparison, the Studicata outlines I purchased have both lengthy and mini-review outlines—super helpful for reviewing before the exam. All outlines are very well organized and neatly laid out with indications next to each topic of how often the topic is tested—so you don’t waste time getting bogged down on something that is rarely tested. Again, the test materials and answers are available on the UBE website and the Studicata outlines were a fraction of this price. And, best of all, you can read them yourself instead of paying to have a Harvard grad read them to you.

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