Bar Exam Resources

Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus breaks down every phase of bar preparation (from planning in law school through sitting the exam) into clear, actionable steps, using checklists to guide learners through mastering black-letter law, essays, MBE, and MPT questions.

Available on West Academic.

This book offers a holistic approach to bar study by blending bar-taking strategies and analytical techniques with real practice questions, helping students bridge law school skills to bar exam performance.

Available on Aspen Learning Library.

This updated fourth edition offers a comprehensive roadmap to UBE preparation, including COVID-era bar insights, technology tips (like using ExamSoft), structured study schedules, and sample MPT/MEE materials.

Available on West Academic.

This book is like a personal trainer for your bar journey: this guide fosters a growth mindset, helps you build a realistic study plan, and gives you tools to reduce distractions, manage time, and maximize practice exam gains.

Available on West Academic.

A comprehensive bar-prep textbook that combines substantive MBE, essay, and performance test outlines with practice questions and score-sheets, using mind-mapping to help students connect and retain legal concepts.

Available on Aspen Learning Library.

A “one-stop shop” for the Uniform Bar Exam, featuring real past student answers and scores with expert commentary, plus clear, practical strategies for writing essays, tackling the MBE, and maximizing your score.

Available on Aspen Learning Library.

Steven L. Emanuel’s guide offers detailed, step-by-step strategies for handling all MBE subjects (Civil Procedure, Contracts, Torts, etc.) backed by over 670 real MBE questions and a full-length 200-question practice exam.

Available on Aspen Learning Library.

This companion volume from Emanuel includes over 465 additional real MBE questions (the majority from past NCBE exams) and full explanations, helping students deepen their understanding of issue spotting and test-taking patterns.

Available on Aspen Learning Library

MBE Decoded breaks down the most-tested MBE rules using NCBE-released questions to identify patterns, offer decoy-avoidance tips, and provide concise outlines and memorization tools.

Available on Aspen Learning Library.

This book presents a step-by-step method for tackling multiple-choice MBE questions, showing how most items test multiple concepts and how to work through them with clarity and confidence.

Available on West Academic.

Based on the premises that the bar exam essay is often different in style, length, and scoring from the law school exam essay and that organization and issue identification can best be achieved by a structured, strategic approach rather than "winging it," this book uses frameworks as a guide to writing a top-notch essay. The opportunity to practice techniques allows students to further improve their writing.

Available on West Academic.

This concise guide teaches students to recognize the underlying “formula” of MPT questions, adopt standard strategies for approaching any MPT task, and demonstrate the analytic and organizational skills that graders expect.

Available on West Academic.

A focused, streamlined guide by Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus and Irene Crisci that uses issue-frequency charts and subject frameworks to help students write well-organized, score-maximizing essays under the MEE’s 30-minute time constraints.

Available on West Academic.