Themis Bar Review Reviews – Page 7
4/5 rating based on 105 reviews. Read all reviews for Themis Bar Review for iPhone.
Themis Bar Review is free iOS app published by Themis Bar Review
Need delete option!
PimpJooze
Program is good, not great. Does it's job, but I'm in the hospital with my dad who just had a heart attack so using this app is unexpected. That said, it's doing what it's supposed to do except for the fact that I have to delete things to add lectures now. Lectures are huge which would be fine if you could delete the, like a normal app. With no idea how long I'll be here, I'm worried I'm going to have to choose between leaving the room all day to study since I can't even make more room through the program itself. Please please please get this minor thing fixed ASAP.
Good
Ab.law
I had none of the problems others speak of. I was able to download all of the lectures pretty quickly and easily and really appreciated being able to listen to them while on the go. I do wish, however, that you could do more on the app than watch lectures (e.g. mc questions, etc.)
A good start
Josh7124
I would like to see all of the functnality of the site built in to the app...also when doing practice questions reveal the entire question that the user got wrong so it is easier to determine where you made a mistake. Also not fully syncing with the website so my percentage of completion is wrong. When I watch a lecture on the iPad it is not showing as complete on the site and vice versa, even when I did everything while connected to wifi and not in offline mode...very, very annoying. I can't sit to see this improve.
No complaints so far
Slyfoxesq
I only just started using Themis so I can't comment much yet, but I will say that several of the problems other reviewers have mentioned have been fixed. You don't have to stay on the download tab within the app while something downloads, and if you leave the app the download is paused so you don't have to start over. (Though background downloading would be nice.) Also, I was rather concerned about comments that the app takes up a lot of room, but now you can delete lectures after you've watched them to free up space. I will agree with comments that being able to access your calendar and other materials is a much-needed feature. I'll revise this review once I've used the app (and system) a bit more.
Simplistic
Niiicccck
The app is nice enough, and the lecture/multiple choice format is nice, but the material and, especially, the questions are too simple to adequately prepare you for law school exams.
Doesn't work on network
Hale614
This app doesn't work unless you are on a wifi connection. When I'm near a wifi connection I can just use a laptop. So this app is worthless to me because I can't use it on the go.
Limited functionality
Tesla Bell
This app is not as useful as it needs to be. The app lets you do two things, assuming you're signed up for the Themis bar review course: watch lectures and take the post-lecture assessment questions. That's it. The app does not include outlines, lecture handouts, or multistate bar exam (MBE) practice questions. You can use the app to watch videos offline if you download the videos while you are online. Although Themis does have MBE-like practice questions, they are not available in this app. The "hundreds of diagnostic assessment questions" are actually basic questions given after each video to check whether you've been listening to the lecture. They can't be accessed directly. Not that there would be any point in doing so—the assessment questions are useless for MBE preparation. The lack of MBE questions is a serious flaw, because the best use of a bar prep mobile app is for drilling on practice questions during moments of downtime while away from one's computer. Having lectures on a phone or iPad is less useful because you'll want to follow along in the lecture outline, which isn't in the app. I should note that if you do have an iPad, Themis makes the outlines available in the EPUB e-book format. So you can access the outline with iBooks, just not while you're using the Themis app. The app also has a few bugs or design issues. You can delete lecture videos, but the app shows no confirmation or evidence that a video has been deleted. I had to check the app's space usage in Settings > General > Usage to verify that videos had actually been removed. If you do use the app to watch videos, you will have to delete videos often because they use a lot of space. Videos can only be deleted one-by-one, which is cumbersome; there appears to be no way to delete all downloaded videos at once. I also had several problems with the app when the Themis web site was non-responsive. The app does not seem to handle unexpected events well. To make this app much more useful, I'd urge Themis first and foremost to make the MBE practice question bank available on the app. It would also be nice if Themis would (a) add the outlines and handouts, (b) make it possible to listen to the lecture while looking at the lecture handouts, and (c) add a way to delete all downloaded videos. Finally, there should be an audio-only option for the lectures. The static shot of a professor's head increases file size without adding anything useful.