Spaced Repetition Study

The key to bar success

master the heavily tested law

Successful bar takers ensure they understand the bar exam and how they will be tested. Conquering the bar requires significant knowledge of the law that cannot be built using the usual cramming methods many students employ in law school. Spaced repetition study helps you review concepts from the critical bar subjects at intervals proven to drive strong retention and exam success. Spaced repetition study is not a new concept, it is a system of learning and retention backed by empirical study after empirical study. 

We are excited to partner with SeRiouS to give our students and graduates access to spacedrepetition.com! This software takes all the calculating out of the process for you and focuses on connecting you with materials at the key intervals you need to revisit them to maximize your retention for your classes or for the bar exam. This program is data validated to improve bar scores with sustained study.  Impressively, 10 minutes a day on this system can result in an 8-10-point gain on your bar score. Many bar takers find themselves passing or failing within that 8-10-point margin. Thus, for very little time you can start to buy yourself a strong chance of passing the bar exam.

Ready to get started? Scroll down to the setup instructions below!

Subjects tested on the uniform bar exam (yes, all of these all at once)

The subjects below are all bar tested material, some with a greater likelihood of certainty they will be on the exam than others. To put this in context, imagine taking all of your 1L exams and nearly two semesters of your upper-level course exams all at one time. That is a lot of information to ask your brain to know, and the reality is that nobody can know everything that may appear on the bar. However, with the appropriate study approach you can ensure you know the heavily tested concepts well by the time you sit for your exam.

MBE and Essay Subjects

Civil Procedure

Contracts

Constitutional Law

Criminal Law and Procedure

Evidence

Real Property

Torts

Exclusively Essay Subjects

Agency and Partnerships (BA)

Corporations and LLCs (BA)

Conflict of Laws

Family Law

UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions)

Trusts

Estates

Follow the instructions below to create your account

Dear Student,

Through your school’s subscription to the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library, you now have access to the Boost Deck on SpacedRepetition.com, a 600+ flashcard custom deck made by law professors especially for SpacedRepetition.com that covers the most-tested multistate bar exam topics.  If you would like to create your own content, you also have the ability to create and share your own custom cards, and use cards created by others (there are over 600,000 cards that users have chosen to make public that correspond to specific schools/courses/profs or state-specific essay topics on the bar).

Because your law school has invested in this tool to help you learn, it’s available at no cost to you. All you need to do is create an account on SpacedRepetition.com.

To create your account:

    1. Click here (https://www.spacedrepetition.com/users/sign_up).
    2. Click on “Subscribed School Membership.”
    3. Enter your information.  Be sure to use your law school email as your address (the system has been programmed to recognize that email and not put up a paywall for your law school community.
    4. Start studying with the Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcard deck.

How it Works

The spaced repetition system is a learning technique that will help you to learn more efficiently and more effectively whether you are studying for the bar or preparing for finals. The magic of the system is the spaced repetition algorithm that is working in the background as you study your flashcards. After clicking on the course area, you will view the front of a card, think about the answer, then flip the card (note: don’t use it to learn new information – use it to review information already covered. Cards are for review after you’ve learned a concept in class) and finally, rate your accuracy/ease of finding the right answer in your head on a 0-5 scale. The algorithm then schedules the precise time for you to review that content again and will just show the next card in the stack.

While it is not important to understand how the algorithm works to use SpacedRepetition.com, if you are interested in learning more, you can check out our short video tour.

Tip for using SpacedRepetition.com

Do 10 new cards a day.  Do it every day. You can use it on your phone, laptop, or desktop, so just make sure you spend a few minutes on it daily.

I am glad to answer any questions and invite feedback and ideas, too (I run the company and one of the few tasks I’ll never outsource is being directly available to you, the user), and I always am interested in feedback.  If there are any issues, feel free to contact me directly.

Good luck and let me know how I can help.

All my best,

Gabe Teninbaum

gabe@spacedrepetition.com

It takes 270/400 points

to pass the bar in texas

Spaced repetition can help get you there

Don't Let the Forgetting Curve Keep you from passing

German psychologist, Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered the nature of memory loss over time. The graph above illustrates that when you first learn something, the information disappears at an exponential rate, i.e. you lose most of it in the first couple of days, after which the rate of loss tapers off.

You overcome the curve with spaced review

Ebbinghaus discovered that information is easier to recall when it’s built upon things you already know. Every time you reinforce the training, the rate of decline reduces. The testing effect says that by simply testing a person’s memory, that memory will become stronger. Staging frequent training interventions as part of a learning campaign helps solidify the information through active recall.