CERTAINTY

 If you ranked highly in Certainty you operate inside the box. 

Structure, stability, checklists... things like that are important to you. Your motto is “better safe than sorry“. You minimize risk. 

What’s the problem with that? 

• It can mean you get overwhelmed with checking off the boxes.

• It leads to listening to advice from an authority figure and following it even if it’s not suitable for you.

• You may find yourself “going down with the ship”.

• You may be convincing yourself that if you “just follow the process“ it’ll work.

Except it’s not possible.

The process is general. Those study plans are geared towards hundreds and thousands of test takers. But you are unique. You need specific. Which means your study plan will likely look different from the “tried and true".

You have to be willing to change how you do things. For you, staying the same is risky business.

So here’s the new mindset you need to adopt:  let go of being right. Risk it now, during practice, so that you can win it later on your actual exam. Take advantage of free trial periods on your study resources and really measure your results to see if that study plan works for you. Dive into practicing questions, even if you would rather no more first. Celebrate your Divine showing you what you need to study through the use of getting answers wrong during your practice sessions.

Use this quiz and its results, in conjunction with our Exam Ready Workshop, to quickly identify which study resources will work perfectly for you (and which won’t). Further use our workshop to specifically tailor your studying to yourself so that you may pass your exam the next time.

WISDOM

Is your highest ranking trait Wisdom? 

If so, early in life during your childhood education or later you were known for exceptional intelligence.  You came to enjoy learning, studying, and even test taking. You likely raised your hand often to answer questions in class. You were rewarded for always knowing the right answer. That has developed into a strong ego aversion to ever being wrong. You depend heavily on gathering all the facts and data before making a decision.  Yet you need to see the big picture before any of those small details mean a thing to you. 

So what’s so bad about that? 

First, because of your aversion to getting things wrong, you will be hit the hardest if you fail a test. If you have failed an exam your counterparts were likely baffled as to why.  You’re so smart! You get caught in a negative feedback loop based on past failed results that will make you hold back and waste even more time deliberating before your next attempt. (You have to break this feedback loop so you can move on).

Your need to weigh all the facts and figures (more so than is necessary) causes you to run out of time on the exam. Despite your ability to quickly see the big picture, make sense of a situation, and spot the right answer on an exam, your need to deliberate causes you to look for support for your chosen answer before you can move on. So you run out of time and either have to rush through the rest of your exam, fill in bubbles randomly, or leave your exam incomplete. 

You will also discount helpful material just because you don’t like the presentation, you found a typo, or you think the presenter doesn’t know their stuff. This may cause you to miss out on the very resource that could’ve gotten you past the finish line of your exam.

What’s your needed mindset shift?

In your case the right mindset and unconditional self-confidence is everything.

You have to quit the learning and start the practicing if you’re going to pass the exam. The ability to think highly of yourself, even when you get questions wrong, is going to get you through all the practice sessions you must complete in order to ace your exam. 

You also must adopt the mindset of weighing future costs against present investments. In the short term, an investment to pass your exam may seem steep, but weigh that against the long term cost of:

• taking and failing your exam

• losing money and job opportunities

• paying to retake the exam

not to mention the opportunity cost from the time you’ll have to spend studying all over again.

Do the long-term math to determine whether a resource is right for you instead of shunning it right off the bat because of presentation or cost. 

In our Exam Ready workshop you will learn exactly what must be done in your study and practice sessions before you can pass your exam. You have special considerations since your hang-ups are not academic. For you, extra-academic factors weigh more heavily on your success. The Exam Ready workshop will walk you through those factors and help you fine-tune your study time so it’s the most efficient for you and finally gets you past the exam. 

COMMUNITY

Community-oriented people believe in the good of the whole.  Whether it’s your law firm, family, or community you see your role as integral to the success and functioning of the group you’re a part of.  As such you are torn between meeting your duties and obligations there, and taking time for your personal goals.  Unless the bar exam becomes a mission that is for the good of your group, you’ll probably continue having issues with:

-boundaries

-time management

-feeling guilty about saying no

-obligations that take you away from bar prep

 Review the results profile waiting in your inbox (you may need to check spam or promotions) to deeply understand your nature as a community-oriented bar taker and how you can work with that to support bar exam success. 

READY TO MOLD YOUR BAR PREP TO YOUR PERSONALITY?

To date, there isn’t a single bar review that caters to your study personality.  That’s because the bar review companies and tutors get plenty of customers.  Bar takers who don’t realize the big impact of study personality are choosing tutors and courses based on price, recommendations, or worse yet, paid advertising.

Bar takers who do realize that a study plan needs to be as individual as the studyer eventually break with the generic programs and begin self-studying.  Except that although they know the bar review program wasn’t working for them, they don’t know what will. 

Introducing…

A study planning system to support you creating a study plan tailored to you. 

Learn more about Bar Exam Ready here.

DISTINCTION

If you ranked highly in Distinction, freedom, and flexibility float your boat. You shun the box. You’re attracted to competition and opportunities to display your abilities.

This has a profound impact on how you thrive in studying. 

Most bar review courses do not cater to the distinction studyer.  In fact, if you’re like most distinction types you put things off to the last minute (because the adrenaline of an impending deadline is highly motivating).  You probably dive into things without preparation first (you’re not a checklist sort of person).  And if there isn’t an immediate recognition or reward for your efforts, you’ll be unmotivated to do it again. 

Review the results profile waiting in your inbox (you may need to check spam or promotions) to get yourself as a distinction bar taker and instantly understand why traditional bar prep doesn’t work for you.  

READY TO MOLD YOUR BAR PREP TO YOUR PERSONALITY?

To date, there isn’t a single bar review that caters to your study personality.  That’s because the bar review companies and tutors get plenty of customers.  Bar takers who don’t realize the big impact of study personality are choosing tutors and courses based on price, recommendations, or worse yet, paid advertising.

Bar takers who do realize that a study plan needs to be as individual as the studyer eventually break with the generic programs and begin self-studying.  Except that although they know the bar review program wasn’t working for them, they don’t know what will. 

Introducing…

A study planning system to support you in creating a study plan tailored to you. 

Learn more about Bar Exam Ready here. 

Your personalized results are on their way to your inbox. Make sure to check your email to see how you did.

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We’re excited for you to review your results!