We have rolled our prices back to mid 1990’s levels. This is a short video that you’ll want to watch that explains the price changes and improvements to our courses. Please take a moment to watch and share with your friends.
Then ask yourself, why would the big bar reviews charge 5 times* the amount of Celebration Bar Review, even though Celebration has the higher pass rate and satisfaction among past students? Yeah, we can’t answer that one either!…
*Price published by barbri for their standard California Classroom course as of June 1, 2012
We know that the economy sucks right now and times are particularly hard for new law school grads and out of work attorneys. In this environment, it’s simply outrageous for traditional bar review courses to charge $3000 and more for cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all courses that often fail to provide little more than canned books and lectures.
For many years, we’ve led our industry in developing new technologies and teaching approaches and we’ve tried to keep our prices reasonable along the way. But now, with new media and distribution methods, there’s no reason for ANY bar review course to charge exorbitant fees, particularly the “big” guys who dominate the industry.
So…we’re doing something about it. Today, we rolled back prices for EVERY one of our bar review courses and products by HUNDREDS, and in some cases, THOUSANDS of dollars! For example:
- Our Basic Mentored Course is now only $795 - a 40% price reduction!
- Our MBE-only Course is now $495 - a 38% price reduction!
- Our Personal Mentoring Course is now priced from $1595 - a savings of $900!
- Even our innovative and exclusive iBar(tm) program for bar review on the latest Apple iPad has been reduced by $500 (nearly the full cost of the iPad)
And that’s just a sample. We know that times will get better and lawyers and law students will get back on their feet. But today, it’s inexcusable to charge outrageous amounts for a bar review course when people are already saddled with huge debt. So, as has been the case so often in the past, we hope that other bar reviews will once again follow our lead, but this time with regard to prices.
In the meantime, we pledge to continue to offer the highest quality and most personalized service available to bar takers anywhere, and to do it at prices that we haven’t charged since the 1990’s. It’s our way of pitching in during hard times.
We hope you’ll check out the prices at http://order.celebration-bar-exam-review.com today. We think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how affordable a high quality, successful bar review course can be and we hope you’ll allow us to be part of your exam “Celebration!”
The Ideal You and the Bar Exam (by JMumey)
My newest video looks at how you can evaluate your progress as you study for the bar exam. Please watch and tell your friends about!
58 Days to the Bar Exam!
This is when it starts to “get real” and for some, it’s “real” discouraging. But as you will see in this video, your study doesn’t have to be that way!
Our new video online course for the MPRE. Check it out on Udemy.com
Here’s the PressRelease from the CA Bar Examiners’ Web Site. The “official” overall pass rate was only 42.2%, with only 53% of first time takers passing and a 37% pass rate for repeat takers.
This is the lowest official pass rate in the country that I’m aware of for the Feb test, and frankly, it’s just crazy. There’s no justification for a test that is only producing a 40+% pass rate when the rest of the nation is in the 70+% range.
I’ll be reviewing test scores later this week as individual applicants receive their score sheets and I’ll share my thoughts more at that point. For today, my guess is that it took a 140 minimum on the MBE and an average 60-65 on the essays and PTs to pass. We’ll see if that’s correct. Until then, if you didn’t pass the exam, hang in there…you’ve got lots (too much) company.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2012, 6:00 p.m. – The State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners reported today that 42.2 percent of the applicants passed the February 2012 General Bar Examination (GBX). If the 1,849 people who passed the February 2012 exam satisfy other requirements for admission, they will become members of the State Bar.
Preliminary statistical analyses show that of the 4,382 applicants who took the GBX, 33 percent were first-time takers. The passing rate for 1,446 first-time applicants was 53 percent overall. The passing rate for the 2,936 applicants repeating the examination was 37 percent overall.
Preliminary statistical analyses show the first-time and repeater percent passing the GBX (rounded to whole numbers) by law school type as follows:
School TypeFirst-TimersRepeatersCalifornia ABA62%50%Out-of-State ABA48%39%California Accredited (but not ABA)34%25%Unaccredited: Fixed-Facility0%11%Unaccredited: Correspondence46%17%Unaccredited Distance Learning31%14%
72 Days until the Bar Exam: Process or Outcome? (by JMumey)
At this point of early study, too many students are focused on outcomes rather than process. Although it’s hard to be patient when the results are not yet where you want them, the process of learning is far more important now than the number of questions answered correctly…Watch this free video for more on this topic.
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If you received your bar exam results and did not pass, you owe it to yourself to watch this Free Video about what to do next. It will change your attitude, your approach and your results!
Sometimes I get notes from prospective students that just break my heart. Here’s one that I received this morning (the day after Florida Results were released):
“I am really confused here [about] my options. I took both parts of the Florida Bar Exam in July 2011 and I passed part 1 with a score of 142 and failed the MBE part with a score of 128 ( which is just below the average of the two parts).
Friends informed me to retake part 2 only and they will average both parts from the previous and the recent parts. I just received my scores for the MBE and got 134 which is below the 136 required but with the average of the two parts I could have passed. But apparently they will not use the overall method if you do not take both parts at the same administration.”
As I had to point out to this individual, their “friends” were wrong. Completely. Totally. Absolutely. And now, to this person’s dismay, they have to start over and retake the exam - again. All of this could have been prevented had this individual taken a bar review with a reputable provider instead of relying on hearsay, bar “mythology” and bad advice from friends.
In order to save a few dollars, it will now cost this individual several thousand dollars more, to say nothing of lost job opportunities and wages for 6 more months. Don’t be foolish. Go to experts for expert advice - not your friends!
