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Frequently-Asked Questions About BarPerfect...??? |
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| BARPERFECT has been helping
both law students and bar exam candidates since 1994. |
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"Our
mission is two-fold:
One, to provide guidance to students
that will not be helped (or have not been helped) by
a mass-produced bar review course.
Two, to provide an activity-oriented
review and curriculum that realizes the California bar
exam is, first and foremost, a thought-process exam." |
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| Steve Liosi, Esq.,
a law review invitee and former Faculty Tutor at Chapman
Law, is the founder and Program Director of BARPERFECT.
In law school, Mr. Liosi helped many
of his classmates receive the highest grade in the class
-- using techniques that he personally developed while
still a law student! Upon graduation, Mr. Liosi was
asked to run his law school's Learning Resource Center.
During that tenure, he helped numerous students go from
Academic Probation to the Dean's List. Mr. Liosi is
a master at demystifying both the law school and the
bar exam process.
Recently, Jeff Cancilla, Esq., joined
the staff of Barperfect. Mr. Cancilla, who passed 6
bar exams on his first attempt, including California's,
is in charge of student mentoring and product development.
"Superior writing skills are required to pass California's
bar exam," he told the Law Student Journal in a
2006 article. "In New York, a candidate has 30
minutes to craft an essay response, which necessarily
implies the emphasis is on issue spotting. In California,
however, a candidate has an entire hour to respond to
a fact pattern, which necessarily implies the emphasis
is on both issue spotting and analysis. With
that extra half hour, you'd better demonstrate the ability
to analyze."
Both men are teachers at heart. And
both realize that too many candidates fail the nation's
toughest bar exam because of mass-produced methodologies.
A quick glance at California's pass rates tells us that
certain kinds of students fail the California bar exam,
year after year after year, mainly because they were
in the wrong course - a mass-produced course. Such a
course does not help a candidate perfect their skill
level.
In addition to Mr. Liosi and
Mr. Cancilla, Barperfect is staffed with former bar
graders. |
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| Barperfect's
online bar review is not a mass-produced course.
And it is not a self-study course. Barperfect offers
candidates professional guidance and individualized mentoring
throughout the entire bar review process.
No crowded lecture halls.
No big, fat glossy books to lug around.
And no outlines written in academic
legalese that further confuse the process. (Our Interactive
Outlines are written in easy-to-understand "plain
English.")
And Barperfect does not provide cursory,
template-oriented feedback. (We read each and every
word of everything you write.) |
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| Obviously, our online
bar review students do not have to drive anywhere. You
can study wherever you want. In your pajamas, if that's
your style.
On in-office bar review clients, of
course, need to drive to our tutorial offices, which
are located on the 9th floor of the Fullerton Towers
in northern Orange County, California. (Our location
is fully ADA compliant.) |
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| Absolutely not. With Barperfect,
you can have any and all of your bar exam questions answered
immediately - and without having to raise your hand. (Do
the mass-produced bar review courses even allow you to
raise your hand?) |
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| Yes, we provide you with
what we call an Activity Schedule. When all activities
are completed, you will be fully prepared to operate at
your highest skill level when it comes time to take the
bar exam. |
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| We provide you with proprietary
analytical writing formulas, proprietary performance test
techniques and proprietary MBE techniques. Additionally,
we provide you with proprietary Interactive Outlines,
Interactive Writing Workshops and Essay Bundles. Naturally,
we provide you with suggested answers to all of our essays
and performance tests. All pertinent materials are e-mailed
to you in high-resolution pdf files.
All materials were written by Jeff Cancilla, Esq.,
who has passed six (6) bar exams on his first attempt,
including California's, and Steve Liosi, Esq. |
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| Since Barperfect is an activity-oriented
bar review, we invite all candidates to issue spot 70
essays and actually write 28 of those essays. Plus, we
invite you write at least 4 performance tests. All of
your submitted efforts are critiqued. (All of your efforts
must be submitted in either a Word or WordPerfect file,
or within the body of an e-mail. We do not accept hand-written
assignments.) |
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| Counting the mini-hypos
in our three (3) Interactive Writing Workshops, you can,
if you want, turn in well over 100 pieces of writing for
feedback. |
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| Feedback that earmarks
your strengths and weaknesses. Feedback that might ask
you to rewrite something until you get it just right.
No cursory, template-oriented feedback - we read each
and every word of everything you write. |
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| Rarely will the phone be
utilized. With today's technology, phone calls, ultimately,
are not necessary. Our materials and e-mail feedback will
not leave you in the dark. If, however, you feel the urgent
need to give us a phone call, by all means please do.
But we are not a phone-tutorial course. |
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| We do not recommend
using Barperfect in conjunction with bar/bri, simply because
our bar review techniques and methodologies are different.
Plus, our bar review methodology places the emphasis on
interactive, activity-oriented learning. Hours and hours
spent in a bar/bri lecture hall will interfere with the
Barperfect Activity Schedule.
That being said, students that do
use Barperfect in conjunction with bar/bri, only attend
the bar/bri law lectures. They do not attend any of
the bar/bri technique-oriented lectures. And they do
not bother turning in any assignments to bar/bri. |
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| We
tell it like it is. Not every Barperfect client passes
the California bar exam, and we cannot "guarantee"
that you will pass.
In fact, we would avoid any and every
course that offers a "guaranteed pass" program.
Such an offering implies that the offeror has no insight
into the true essence of the California bar exam, nor
the inherent differences in bar candidates.
Don't you think there is a significant
difference between a Stanford grad who just missed by
10 points and a non-ABA grad who struggled to gets Cs
in law school and just failed by more than 200 points?
Don't you think there is a significant difference
between a high-LSAT (>172) and a low-LSAT (<155)
candidate? Of course there is.
We can only guarantee that you are
enrolling in a high-quality, activity-oriented course
that will professionally guide you through the process
so that you can sit for the next exam with the highest
possible skill level imaginable. After that, it is up
to you.
A "guaranteed pass" program?
Uhh, no thanks. You get no marketing gimmicks from us. |
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There are no refunds after 1) the first assignment is e-mailed to you and you have received feedback or 2) the first in-office session has been conducted. No exceptions. If necessary, you can halt your studies and resume them the next bar-review period. |
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| Our Web site says it all,
so we do not provide free in-office consultations. If
you don't get a sense of expertise and honesty from our
Web site, then it would probably be best to keep on searching
for another course. (But there is no problem asking us
a few questions over the phone. Call now.) |
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| Every Barperfect client
gets their bar books looked at for free. For those who
are not yet Barperfect clients, we charge $150, which
will be deducted from the price of our course, if you
ultimately enroll with us. |
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