Don’t waste your money – BarMax Bar Exam, MBE & MPRE Review

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.
Review by Seriouslythereviewtho on BarMax Bar Exam, MBE & MPRE.