Do study groups actually help for the bar exam or are they a waste of time?
Two people from law school have asked me to join theirs (we did study togehter in 1l-3l) but I have never really studied well in groups but I also do not want to be the person who turned down help and then failed so there is that. Heard different things so asking here
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Depends entirely what the group is for. A group that reads together is a waste of an evening. A group that does a timed block separately and then compares wrong answers for half an hour is worth a lot.
Ours was the second kind and it was the only social contact I had in October, which mattered more than the studying did honestly.
That distinction is helpful, thanks. I think they mean the first kind.
i did mine entirely alone and passed. do not join a group out of guilt lol
Mine turned into a two hour chat about articling every single week. Lovely people, zero studying. Know yourself.
One thing a group is properly good for that nobody mentions: someone else explaining a topic you have read four times and still do not get. Ten minutes of that beat two hours of rereading for me.
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