Thread: CA Model Answers

besides CA State Bar model answers which are not out yet, has anyone else, such as Bar review course, published answers? thanks.

Category: CA - California Bar Exam

I am pretty sure Vivian Dempsey (the Writing Edge at http://www.calbarqanda.com/) will post the model answer in a month or two when the Feb 2008 bar exam is getting closer. Right now, they just have the Feb 2007 one out.

I'm posting this from another thread because I'm hoping that it will be helpful to someone out here:

I would be careful about taking Vivian's (The Writing Edge) "model" answer too seriously.

This last time I took the bar (my 2nd time), I studied with Vivian. She sometimes misstates the law, but I learned far more law with her than I ever did with BarBri because she made it manageable. Having said that, I still failed the second time. And it was because of my writing (I got a 138 raw/152 scaled MBE). In fact, my writing scores were the exact same as they were the first time around when I didn't know what the hell I was doing and really hadn't learned the law very well (I was too burned out after law school). Moreover, only 1 of 18 in our Los Angeles class passed the Feb. 2011 CBX... which is terrible (we all have emailed one another; that's how I know).

This time, I'm taking Steve Liosi (BarPerfect). Vivian focused on memorizing the law and practicing. Steve focuses on analysis and practicing. I'm hoping that Steve will give me what I need to pass. I don't need to learn the law so much anymore after Vivian's class, but I think that she graded exams so long ago that she perhaps has lost touch with precisely "how" to show the examiners that you are writing in an analytical way.

Hope this helps someone out there. I'll update in November after getting results from this July's CBX.

You should have taken LECC.

Or Personal Bar Prep (Jay).