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Strategies & Tactics for the MBE (Multistate Bar Exam)
Kimm Alayne Walton , and Steve Emanuel
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Bar exam prep.......2007-06-08
Very good resource--excellent tips on the nuances of how the bar examiners are trying to trick you. Before PMBR and BarBri, this was the only book many people used to study. I would highly recommend it
Comprehensive for Multistate review.......2007-02-21
I have yet to take the MBE, but my initial take on this book is very positive. Although I think it could do a better job of giving a more detailed summary of each of the sections of the test, it does have roughly 50 multiple choice for each section, and each answer (right or wrong) does spell out the black letter law. It also has a full 200-question MBE at the end of the book. To supplement PMBR/Barbri (or even supplant one of them), this may be the best option. For the price, I believe it's money well spent (and what's another forty on top of a hundred thousand anyway?).
Great way to jump start your MBE study.......2006-07-03
This book provides a strategic way to take MBE questions with an intro of what topics are tested within each subject and then an exam tactics section of what to look for in the questions. Then there are detailed answers for each question so you can look to see why the wrong answers are not correct. I would recommend this to anyone preparing for the Bar Exam, my bar study professor recommended to begin using this book our last semester of school before we actually began heavily studying for the exam, it was good advice!
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- Perhaps some day this author will apprehend the greatness of our legal system
- Too funny!!!! So true....
- Laughing All the Way to the Bank -- With MY Candy
- Destined to be a classic
- Will non lawyers find it funny?
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Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel
Jeremy Blachman
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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ASIN: 0805079815
Release Date: 2006-07-25 |
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Hes a hiring partner at one of the worlds largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretarys desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And hes just started a weblog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession. Meet Anonymous Lawyer -- corner office, granite desk, and a billable rate of $675 an hour. The summer is about to start, and hes got a new crop of law school interns who will soon sign away their lives for a six-figure salary at the firm. But hes also got a few problems that require his attention. Theres The Jerk, his bitter rival at the firm, who is determined to do whatever it takes to beat him out for the chairmans job. Theres Anonymous Wife, who is spending his money as fast as he can make it. And theres that secret blog hes writing, which is a perverse bit of fun until he gets an e-mail from someone inside the firm who knows hes its author. Written in the form of a blog, Anonymous Lawyer is a spectacularly entertaining debut that rips away the bland faade of corporate law and offers a telling glimpse inside a frightening world. Hilarious and fiendishly clever, Jeremy Blachmans tale of a lawyer who lives a lie and posts the truth is sure to be one of the years most talked-about novels.
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Perhaps some day this author will apprehend the greatness of our legal system.......2007-05-18
Mr. Blachman has clearly not spent enough time in big firms to appreciate their salutary effects on the human spirit, and the great benefits to society imparted by our legions of industrious lawyers, each doing his or her part so that the great Spirit of Justice might prevail in our land.
Perhaps it is too much to expect of a youngling lawyer, to apprehend the Adam Smith-like genius of our legal system, in which the strenuous -- nay, heroic -- efforts of tens of thousands of our best and brightest to expend their best years billing as many hours as humanly possible, so as to maximize their chances to grab the pot o' gold of a cherished partnership, paradoxically result in judicial outcomes that, on a larger scale, maximize justice and the common social good.
This is a theory that I will be amplifying in my own forthcoming book, "Why Lawyers Are Good for Us All," sponsored by the ABA and the Association of American Law Schools.
Sure, Mr. Blachman can be side-splittingly funny in his parody of big-firm life, but beneath the humor there is the desperate, spiritual emptiness of a man who, in his youthful impatience, does not yet appreciate how much his profession has done for humanity. He may ridicule partners like Anonymous Lawyer as narcissistic monsters, but one day he will see that they uphold great traditions that define what is best, and who deserves the greatest rewards, of our brave, new meritocracy.
Mr. Blachman is, apparently, a newly-minted attorney from the Harvard Law School. His jejune sense of satire will eventually give way, like fine wine as it ages, to a more mature understanding of the subtle and exquisite beauty, the ineffable and lasting contribution to human progress, of the magnificent legal edifice that lets justice roll down upon us like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
As he throws himself upon the gears of the legal machinery to which he has dedicated his life, and the talent and energy of his gifted youth is ground down to the fine dust of the wisdom of experience, I am sure we can look forward in coming years to more thoughtful paeans to his noble profession than this entertaining but ultimately nihilist screed.
Too funny!!!! So true...........2007-05-17
I thought this was highly entertaining. I hated the main character, but he was funny and freshingly honest. The only reason it is getting 4 rather than 5 stars was the audio book version left a bit to be desired because of all the To and From and techno speak.
Laughing All the Way to the Bank -- With MY Candy.......2007-05-14
This is one of the funniest books I've read this year. Sure, the whole "partner-who-wants-to-be-chairman" storyline of the book was a good one--but what kept me glued to the pages of ANONYMOUS LAWYER for four straight hours was the fact that I couldn't stop laughing.
Two paralegals chatting incessantly? Easy solution--punch one of the them in the face. Anonymous Daughter getting fat? Easy enough to solve--let Anonymous Wife take her in for liposuction. My favorite scene from the entire book, though, has to be this one:
"We had a student (intern) last summer who kept kosher. Or at least that's what she said. But anytime she got offered lunch at someplace exceptional, suddenly she wasn't kosher anymore. You asked her to go to a cheap Indian place down the street, oh, she can't, she's kosher. But if you wanted to drive up the coast for a long lunch at Nobu in Malibu, perfect, she'd eat anything. She'd eat raw shrimp wrapped in bacon with a glass of milk, off the naked stomach of a Palestinian, on Yom Kippur, if you told her it was expensive."
And it's lines like that that make the fictional blog of Anonymous Lawyer at the heart of the story both funny, realistic, sarcastic, and brutally honest. Oh, and the fact that the author, Jeremy Blachman, really does write the anonymous lawyer blog (anonymouslawyer dot blogspot dot com).
Wonderful read!
Destined to be a classic.......2007-05-06
This brilliant book could become the legal fraternity's answer to every doctor's favourite book The House of God.
Firstly, the blog style is a literary masterstroke. While blogging is not to everybody's taste, the use of novel elements is the hallmark of genius. To criticise that, as some have done, is making the same mistake as those who criticised Picasso.
Blachman is quick witted and creative, and sustains the tension throughout the whole novel. It is a dark satire of the baptism of fire of the modern legal/financial workplace. He captures the angst ridden lives within the dysfunctional uber sweat shop though the eyes of a partner who is a flawed genius, blithely unaware of his dreadful faults. In Anonymous Law Firm, normal values get burnt relentlessly away. One suspects that history will mark the current era as Neo-Dickensian and Neo-Orwellian, ironically this time it is the big end of town that is eating its own babies.
Unlike the doctors in House of God who face a few short years of dysfunctionality and can eventually leave for a life of sanity, the poor lawyers at Anonymous Law Firm face a lifetime of hell, are not tempered like steel by the ordeal, and have the alternative of being cast aside for a life of obscurity. In this inferno, survival goes beyond the fittest and bizarre character flaws become a major advantage.
Our antihero shares his deepest thoughts and political aspirations, his plans, his snares, his triumphs and his disappointments, his gloating, his bleating, his whining, his cajoling, his mastery, and his misery, of both his legal and his personal life. His hubris is as brilliant as his childishness. He has brilliant insight into the quirks of the those around him, and uses this ruthlessly against them, partner or underling alike. He hilariously casually victimises some of the more unlikeable summer associates, merely for his own amusement and edification. At the same time he is as oblivious to his dreadful parenting attitudes as he is to his tantrums over the bagels.
This is great stuff. The audio version doesn't quite capture the full scope of the character's flawed genius, but is still very good and enjoyable. Keep a watch on Blachman, his best is yet to come!
Will non lawyers find it funny? .......2007-05-01
I would like to think that anyone with a sense of humor will be interested and able to laugh (loudly) at this book, but I am not sure. I work in a law firm though, and I found it hilarious! There aren't many novels that deal with what attorneys in large law firms do, and so it was nice to see a familiar depiction. Even better, I laughed out loud a lot. There aren't many books that make me do that. At the same time, some of the jokes had a whiff of the truth in them, so there were times when I didn't laugh out loud, I just shook my head in shame at my profession.
Any lawyer or law student with a sense of humor really should read this book. I had never heard of the blog before, but now I am tuning in!
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- THIS is the book to use
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Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays: In-depth Strategies and Essay-Writing That Bar Review Courses Don't Offer, With 80 Actual State Bar Exams Questions and Answers
Mary, Campbell Gallagher
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Essay-writing can account for fifty per cent or more of your bar exam score, yet even the best bar review courses often don't teach how to write lawyer-like essays. Now, at last, you will find the step-by-step instruction you need in this unique reference. Packed with expert essay-writing systems and confidence-building practice, it features: Quick Key Outlining system for hitting the issues, focusing on the law, and scoring high with less writing Model Paragraph system for "writing like a lawyer"--even though you don't know your conclusion when you start writing 80 actual bar exam practice questions on the most frequently tested areas of law, including crucial state law subjects, with sample answers A review of how state bar examiners have graded actual essays--and real examples of the best and worst ways to respond to essay questions
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Bar Candidates: This book & CD is a MUST HAVE!.......2007-05-15
Dr. Gallagher uses a "unique" style to help us understand where our writing is going astray. The Bar Examiners can be your friends, if you practice writing like a lawyer. Her method is made easy to understand, unlike other techniques which must be read and practiced without any support. Her CD gives helpful advice in general and helps you through the writing process.
If you can afford to spend thousands of dollars on additional Bar Prep, consider an alternative. Otherwise, try Dr. Gallagher's techniques and you WILL become a better legal thinker and writer.
Good purchase.......2007-01-10
I have used the book but have not outlined all the essays--it was good in terms of getting me to know why I failed the bar exam the first time. For me my weaknesses for the bar was essay-writing--I had a high MBE score. Essay writing is crucial and she taught me the proper way to outline. However, in the end you must do the leg work.
Very helpful if you practice the techniques.......2006-11-16
Six suggestions when using this insightful approach to the bar exam by Dr. Gallagher:
1. Listen to her tapes
2. Read her book and essays
3. Read old exam answers from your jurisdiction
4. Use Dr. Gallagher's strategy to answer any subject essay question
5. Read her book again and sample essays
6. Read her book again and sample essays
You have now passed the Bar exam!
Not helpful........2006-06-03
I found this book to be incredibly unhelpful. The author does not offer good strategies for approaching the exam, and includes essays from a range of jurisdictions, which can be confusing at worst and just unhelpful at best. i thought the Adachi books were much better.
THIS is the book to use.......2006-03-10
I recently used this book to prepare for New York's bar exam essays. This book gives you a viable succinct format for writing bar exam essays. I took the BarBri workshop and this book was far more useful. It has many practice questions and essays (includes most states). For those of us who do not have the luxury of time to spend in endless workshops, this book allows you to learn the methodology at your own pace, and practice, practice, practice. Definitely worth every penny of the price.
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Bar/bri Bar Review Professional Responsibility
Richard W. Wydick
Manufacturer: BarBri/Thomson
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ASIN: 0314174850 |
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This book contains everything you need to know to pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), an exam designed to test your ability to apply a set of detailed legal rules--similar to the legal rules you have learned in other courses in law school. You cannot pass the exam simply by having good morals and good manners. You must know the rules and how to apply them. This book shows you how. While the MPRE is not easy, it is fair. You will find that a reasonable effort, used the approach outlined in this book, will produce great rewards.
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- Great Intro to the experience of law school
- The Best Book About Law School!!!
- My favorite assigned pre-law book
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- Number One on My List of 3 Must-Have Books
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Law School Insider: The Comprehensive 21st Century Guide to Success in Admissions, Classes, Law Review, Bar Exams and Job Searches, for Prospective Students and Their Loved Ones
Jeremy B. Horwitz
Manufacturer: The Lion Group LLC
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ASIN: 0972376607 |
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If you're looking for an easy-to-read, chronological guide to every step of the law school experience, this is the book you need. Written from a student's perspective, rather than that of a professor, Law School Insider answers every important question faced by today's new law students and their families!
Learn about admissions, each year of classes from 1L to 3L, student organizations (including special sections on law reviews and other journals), job hunting, bar exams, and much more.
Discover modern legal careers and learn how to win jobs with top law firms and judges.
Take an inside look at modern family, gender, racial, and other key issues for today's students.
Find out how to take classes in Europe and Asia for credit in United States law schools.
Conquer the nation's toughest bar exams and learn which have the highest pass rates.
Learn all about law reviews, their secret elections, and how to become an editor.
If you need to learn about law school, make certain that Law School Insider by Jeremy B. Horwitz, esq. is at the top of your list!
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Great Intro to the experience of law school.......2006-04-19
I found this book an excellent introduction to what the experience of law school would be like-- from one student's perspective. It didn't have a great deal of practical advice on how to brief cases or outline classes, but it did provide me with a better sense of what to expect from the whole 3+ year process. For practical advice on briefing cases and studying suggestions, I found Law School Confidential much more useful. However, I think the two books complement each other. I enjoyed reading this book, and suspect I will reread sections as I move through law school.
The Best Book About Law School!!!.......2004-01-19
As a prospective law school applicant, who will be applying to a Juris Doctor program this year, I read a lot of books about law schools. Law School Insider by Jeremy Horwitz, Esq. (a cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School, who is currently working as an attorney) is by far the best book about a student's life before, during, and after law school. Unlike other books, this book is organized in a straight-forward manner and is well-written. It starts from the Introduction and Preparing for Law School Chapters that guide you through the entire admission process, from selecting a good law school to making educated choices after receiving acceptance letters. Thereafter, the author writes about the first year, memorable first-year summers, two-L, journal elections and intrigue, second-year summers, the third and final year, and the Bar exam. In addition, the book is supplemented by useful Tables on the first-year course schedules across the nation; modern law-related career options and elective specializations; state Bar exam subject matter coverage and MPRE requirements, to name a few. Various Appendixes include the sample writing completion submission and sample class outline excerpts.
Throughout the book, Jeremy offers a lot of valuable details about his personal experience as a law student in Cornell Law School. For example, he writes that his "...own first day of classes was only modestly intimidating. The readings had taken a long time, but were short enough that I though that I generally understood where they were going. Most of my professors initially came across as nice enough people, and the first class discussions about the readings were relatively gentle..." I found this to be similar to my own law school classes. In other chapters, he describes his experience of hunting for a job and compares different areas of practice and cities. No doubt, such details are extremely important. A few persons who posted their negative reviews about this book should have known that God is in details.
It is no secret that, due to the economic and other related factors, admission to any law school in the country (not to mention top law schools) has become extremely competitive during the recent years. LSAC offers the following nationwide statistics:
Law School Applications (Entering Class of Fall 2002)
89,000 applicants submitted over 440,000 applications. Average of approximately 5.3 applications per person; 17.4% increase in applications.
LSAT Test Takers (Entering class for Fall 2003)
June 2002 LSAT: Largest June exam in history. 27,808 prospective applicants took the exam; 16.3% increase from June 2001 exam.
October 2002: 52,604 persons took this exam; 12.5% increase over October 2001.
The bad news is, of course, that the competition to get into the law school of your choice is going to get even much tougher. But the good news is that after reading Law School Insider your chances of admission to your dream school will increase significantly. I strongly believe that this book is a must for any prospective law student. It is worth every penny, and I highly recommend it to anyone considering going to law school. Also, the Internet website created by Jeremy Horwitz, www.lawschoolinsider.com, is an excellent source for obtaining additional information about the complicated law school admission process, as well as for finding answers to your questions.
A short note about myself: I hold my first law degree from one of the best law schools in Europe, and an advanced Master of Laws degree from American law school (I wish I had read this book before I was applying to the LL.M. program!)
My favorite assigned pre-law book.......2003-11-24
I can see why this book was assigned reading for one of my college classes, it has been very helpful (and easy to read) in explaining what law school is really about, the careers I can pursue, and telling me what I need to do to prepare. Most of my books get sold at the end of the semester, but because this has so much information on how the first, second and third years of law school work (still 2 years away for me), I will keep this when I dump my other books. I have also found the web site (with free updates and discussion forums) for this book to be major bonuses.
BTW, it's funny to see how the "critics" behind the 1-star reviews here disagree about such ridiculous things. Is this book "mature"? "Humble?" Everyone who loves the book knows that it is both of these things, but even the "critics" can't seem to agree, probably because the "critics" are really jealous competing authors trying to take whatever shots they can to make people doubt a great book. Look past the 1-star smears and get this 5-star book!!
Thumb through at a bookstore first - you may save some $.......2003-11-22
I can't see why this book received such high marks from other readers. I found the author's perspective to be immature (e.g. bragging about parties), narrow (almost completely his own), and too general to be helpful.
The book would have been much improved if it was written several years after law school when the author had some career experience to reflect upon what he could have done better if he could do it over again. Instead it appears to have been published almost immediately after his graduation.
The book also could have been improved if multiple authors narrated their experiences. Instead, the book almost completely focuses on his. Thus, you're better off talking to some friends who have gone to law school, so that you can obtain multiple perspectives, than reading this book.
Finally, the book could have been improved with more facts. Such factual references would have been the appropriate way to utilize footnotes. Moreover, it would have given some legitimacy to his claims and advice. The appendices are one of the few places you can find useful facts, but they are too brief to justify the purchase.
My advice is to page through this book in-person first. It is nearly the equivalent of a self-published biography. It is not a useful guide to understanding law school. An undergraduate student may be fooled into thinking so, but anyone with a few years of career experience can see it for what it is. Just skim a few of its pages and the nearly useless footnotes (which yes he says you can skip at the beginning of the book) to save yourself some time and money better spent on other guides.
p.s. Contrary to another reviewer's speculation, I am not a competing author. I am an administrative code writer considering a career transition by going back to law school. If you are someone who could probably be defined as a non-trad student, I think you will share my opinion of this book.
Number One on My List of 3 Must-Have Books.......2003-09-23
A little about me: I'm now in my second year of law school and Purchased both Law School Insider and Law School Confidential last year. I wound up keeping only my copy of Law School Insider, which is a newer and more relevant book for me.
Now that I've completed my first year, I think that there are three books that every law student should read before (and maybe during) attending law school. The first two are Law School Insider and Getting to Maybe. Getting to Maybe is a good book on exams, and Law School Insider is the best book about the experience and how to prepare.
A little about law school: law school is a challenging LEARNING experience. If you want to be a lawyer, you go to law school to learn how to think, how to read, and how to manage your time. It is not just about getting good grades, it is about picking an area of personal specialization and actually learning. Only Law School Insider speaks to both the importance of grades and truly learning a specialty.
Besides the fact that Law School Insider is much more thorough, it is also a mature person's look at law school. Law School Confidential is peppered with exclamation marks (to make it seem more exciting!), formulas, way too many cocky, overconfident male perspectives, and handfuls of comments from all-white "mentors." I recognized these as gimmicks when I saw them but only realized how wrong and useless they were for me when I tried some of them.
By comparison, Law School Insider is a balanced book that actually speaks to the lifestyles and choices of different readers, including people who are married and worried about starting a life after law school, and tells people from diverse backgrounds how to maximize their chances of success. It has the most useful information, with none of Confidential's attitude. You can see that same attitude in the few absurdly negative reviews of Insider, but ignore it, it's just more Confidential hype without any substance.
On the subject of attitude, there is not a trace of arrogance or artificial stress anywhere in Insider. This contrasts sharply with Confidential, which suggests among other things that you should skip applying to law schools unless you're going to go someplace Robert Miller and his friends consider prestigious, and that law school is going to be like a war. Miller and I were both educated in Pennsylvania, but I know this stuff isn't even true at most of the schools in my state, let alone elsewhere in the country.
So what is the third book I would recommend if not Confidential? One-L. Confidential's perspective on law school is old and outdated too, but One-L is much more entertaining if you're buying a book about law School to be entertained. If you're looking to learn about law school life, you owe it to yourself to buy Law School Insider instead.
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Strategies & Tactics for the MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam)
Steven Emanuel
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
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ASIN: 0735551669 |
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Excellent review book........2007-04-29
This book is quick and easy-to-read; having previously taken a professional responsibility class, it was a nice cherry on top in my exam preparation (note that I very easily passed the MPRE on my first try). I just wish it contained the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, the inclusion of which would have been very convenient.
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Patent Bar Exam Crash Course
Natalia Foley
Manufacturer: Liberty Soldier
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Binding: CD-ROM
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This is a complete self-study guide for The Patent Bar Exam by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. You will get not only extensive Patent Bar Review, but also 6 full Patent Examinations and FULL LIBRARY OF PATENT Law. The GCC Patent BAR Review Course is designed to ensure that you pass the Patent Bar Exam. All course materials are 100% Exam-Focused, and updated to all current USPTO rules.
TABLE OF CONTENT: Definition of a Patent ; Constitutional Basis for a Patent; Laws and Rules Governing Patents; Applying for a Patent; Categories of Patents; Rights of the Inventor, Applicant, and Patentee; Patent Office Prosecution; Effective Filing Dates; Patentability; Statutory Bars Under Section 102; Antedating; Unobviousness; Doctrine of Equivalents; File Wrapper Estoppel; Preparation of Patent Papers; Comparative Patent Law; Other Intellectual Property. Appendix 1: United States Code Title 35, Title 18 -Patents; Appendix 2: Rules of Practice in Patent Cases--37 CFR; Appendix 3: MANUAL OF PATENT EXAMINING PROCEDURE ; Appendix 4: Rules and Instructions; Appendix 5: 6 FULL PRACTICE EXAMS ( Questions and Answers).
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- Get You Confused Quickly
- Decent Outline of Topics
- a MUST buy!!
- A good supplement - Distills the MPEP into 65 pages
- Complete piece of garbage!
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Patent Bar Exam : The Best Test Preparation and Review Course
The Staff of Research & Education Association , and Raj V. Abhyanker
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ASIN: 0878913297 |
Book Description
REA's test preparation and review course for the Patent Bar Exam covers everything you need to know to begin your quest for a career in Patent Law. Tips and strategies for passing the exam, actual Patent Exams with detailed explanations, and a comprehensive review of the subject matter are included. Plus, detailed information on the Patent Trademark Office gives you the inside track to passing this important test and planning your future career. Information on starting salaries, career opportunities, and the future of the field round out this comprehensive guide.
Customer Reviews:
Get You Confused Quickly.......2006-06-30
If you don't have a clear picture of what patent laws and rules are, this book will probably get you confused very quickly. A lot of sentences are not well written and a lot of materials are just plainly obsolete. It's a shame I wasted my money on a book of this quality.
Decent Outline of Topics.......2006-05-16
If you're in law school, think of the MPEP and full PTO Exam courses as a casebook, and this book as the capsule summary out of an Emanuel's outline. What's that mean? It's a good overview of the topics with some narrow information. Good for giving you the very most important topics. It is not suitable to be the only tool you use for studying for the Patent Bar, but it is a great guide into what to study.
a MUST buy!!.......2005-11-27
I am a patent attorney and buying/using this book was my first step in becoming one! Everyone is different - this book may be very helpful or not depending on who you are, your study habits, etc. Think about it this way: spending less than $30 on a patent bar examination material that may be helpful is totally worth it, even if it is NOT helpful. How would you know otherwise? After all, there are far less helpful patent bar examination materials that cost hundreds and thousands of dollars out there. So...spending that $30 may be worth your time and your efforts in passing the one of the HARDEST exams (of my life!).
A good supplement - Distills the MPEP into 65 pages.......2004-01-01
This is a good supplement to study from, however its a bit out of date now (year 2000). While the book has direct quotes from parts of the MPEP, thats precisely what I needed to pass the exam.. (The patent bar exam doesnt allow you to take in "notes" but does allow you to take in sections of the MPEP.)
The 4000 page MPEP is essentially distilled into 65 pages of the most commonly tested questions on the Patent Bar in this book. Its a great supplement to studing, and its easy to read question and answer form helped me pass this difficult test.
Complete piece of garbage!.......2003-11-10
This guy basically just stole huge blocks of information from the USPTO website. Don't waste your money on this ripoff and visit www.uspto.gov instead. Amazon should pull this book off the site as a service to its customers.
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- Read This Before the Bar!!!
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If I Don't Pass the Bar I'll Die: 73 Ways to Keep Stress and Worry from Affecting Your Performance on the Bar Exam
Rosemary La Puma
Manufacturer: Rosemary's Review - A Comprehensive Bar Tutorial
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Taking the Bar Exam?
*Have you ever finished reading a test question only to find that you have no idea what you just read?
*Have you ever been so worried about finishing a test in time that you wrote gibberish?
*Have you ever put off studying for exams until the last minute?
*Have you ever been unable to answer a question and had it dog you for the rest of the test, interfering with your concentration?
*Have you ever marked an unintended multiple-choice response or written an exam answer in the wrong booklet?
If you answered YES to some or all of these questions, then stress and worry have affected your academic performance in the past and will likely affect your performance on the bar exam.
This book can prevent that from happening.
This book is the only book that addresses the psychological aspects of taking the Bar Exam. The book provides practical suggestions for dealing with stress and worry and their relatives: distractive thoughts; procrastination; and poor habits in planning, managing time studying and test taking.
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Read This Before the Bar!!!.......2005-05-03
As a law student about to start my bar studies, I loved this book because it goes where many bar-related books don't - into the mental obstacles that tend to go hand-in-hand with the bar exam, in particular, doubting your own capabilities. The book is like having a mini psychologist, giving you the tools to deal with stress and that annoying instinct to freak out.
It's a really easy read; full of pictures and drawings, and will probably only take you about 45 minutes on the elliptical trainer at the gym. Also, it's interspersed with great little stories about other people's stress (including the author's), which reminded me that every law student is dealing with the same fears that I am. The successful ones are those who manage these fears the best. But the book is more than about stress management. It also gives you practical study skills for improving your writing and multiple choice skills, and even contains a study schedule to help keep you on track.
I realized that I needed to listen to my angst over the bar exam instead of avoiding it, hoping that it would go away. It's tough to see your fears on paper, in this book, but somehow the author knows all of them, and gets you to confront them. WELL worth the $16 or so off of Amazon.
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- Good Start for Preparing the RFID+ Exam
- Best RFID+ Study Guide: Read This Book Before Any Other RFID Book
- Good introductory book - some issues though
- Excellent Reference and Exam Study Guide
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RFID+: CompTIA RFID+ Study Guide and Practice Exam (RF0-001)
Paul Sanghera
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ASIN: 1597491349 |
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags (also called transponders).
This book is a guide to CompTIA's new RFID+ Security exam and includes the following study elements: Exam objectives covered in a chapter are clearly explained in the beginning of the chapter, Notes and Alerts highlight the crucial points, Exams Eye View emphasizes the important points from the exams perspective, Key Terms present definitions, Review Questions contain questions modeled after the real exam questions. Answers to these questions are presented with complete explanations in an appendix. Also included is a full practice exam modeled after the real exam. The answers to the exam questions are presented with full explanations.
* The only RFID+ study guide that provides 100% coverage of all exam objectives for the CompTIA RFID+ exam
* Includes a full web-based practice exam to run through before you sit your actual exam
* Packed full of special features and material to aid and reinforce learning
Customer Reviews:
Good Start for Preparing the RFID+ Exam.......2007-05-12
I just passed the exam! I prepared the CompTIA RFID+ exam based on two books: this one and the one by Patrick Sweeney. I began by reading this book, and after reading it thoroughly, I moved on and read Patrick Sweeney's book. I think Paul Sanghera has done a good job by organizing the book well and introducing the concepts in a clear manner. Except for some apparent typos, this book is better for beginners than Patrick Sweeney's one. But Patrick Sweeney's book is a good compliment to this one. If you really want to pass the exam, reading two books will be more helpful. The practice exam CD from Patrick Sweeney's book is also better than Paul Sanghera's. The actual exam questions are quite distinctive from the practice questions you can find in either books. The questions in the real test are apparently longer, and require more comprehension of the RFID basics. After reading these two books, you should be able to pass the exam like I did. Of course, if you have, like, 10 years of working experiences on RFID, it's possible to pass the exam by reading this book alone.
Best RFID+ Study Guide: Read This Book Before Any Other RFID Book.......2007-04-23
I found this Study Guide best among all the available RFID+ study guides. The exam objectives are fairly covered and the questions in the sample exam are very close to the questions in the real exam. The book explains everything from scratch, and is very self-contained. You must read this book first before you read any other study guide or any other RFID book.
I also learned RFID while preparing for the exam. Very useful book indeed.
Good introductory book - some issues though.......2007-03-30
I am preparing to take the RFID+ certification exam in Mid-April '07. I found this to be a very good higher level book to read first with the intention of reading a second more low level book afterwards. The book did contain quite a few grammatical errors and a couple of the end of chapter review tests answers were off (I think Chapter 3 supplies all incorrect answers for the review questions), but other than that it's not a bad book and it does a good job of targeting the exam objectives. I would recommend following it up with Patrick Sweeney's CompTIA RFID+ book which is a more intermediate level book and will fill in some of the holes such as specific standards overviews, that this one leaves (if you can handle the constant Odin Technologies plugs that Sweeney puts into his books). 4 out of 5 stars seems fair for this one.
Excellent Reference and Exam Study Guide.......2007-02-25
I've just passed the RFID+ exam after preparing mostly from this book. The author seems to have a knack of making difficult concepts easier to understand without compromising accuracy. The whole book flows like a story and there is no hopping from topic to topic as is usually found in most exam study guides. No fluff---just nuggets of information---yet all concepts explained in a crisp, concise, and easy to understand way. I know that it takes tons of experience and skills to write a book in this way.
First chapter refreshed my Math and basic Physics concepts necessary to understand the material in the book. Each chapter begins with listing the exam objectives that will be covered in the chapter; so I knew where I was in my exam preparation. It was also re-assuring to see that all the exam objectives were covered. Each chapter ends with a list of definitions of important terms introduced in the chapter. Each concept is defined and explained where it appears the first time...this makes this book self-contained and easy to understand.
The way material is presented, you do not need any other reference or any prior knowledge of RFID to understand this book. Actually, if you read this book first, all other books will make much more sense.
The coverage of the exam topics is comprehensive enough and the questions in the practice exam are quite realistic. I liked the exercises (and solutions) throughout the chapters, which helped me to comprehend the difficult concepts. Notes, Tips, and Alerts re-enforced the important points. Although I have passed the exam, this book is going to stay on my shelf, as I find it an excellent reference book too; a nice introduction to the field.
If you want to enter the magnificent field of RFID, this book is your gateway.
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