Quick Tip: Stay Emotionally Detached
As lawyers, we’re expected to be empathetic. Understanding clients and exercising compassion are at the heart of lawyering. So, it’s...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Washing, Rinsing, and Repeating Your Way to Improvement
If you’re taking a commercial bar review course, you’ve most likely already completed a 200-question simulated MBE exam. If you haven’t...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jun 29, 20224 min read
Percentages and Percentiles
As some of you may know, my family and I spent the last week on a cruise, along with 6,200+ other passengers. Two of those passengers...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jun 21, 20223 min read
Completing MBE Practice Questions Online and On Paper
The MBE is probably more like what you've experienced in grade school than law school, at least, in terms of how you're marking your...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
May 21, 20222 min read
NCBE's New Content Scope Outline: What's New and What's No Longer Being Tested
The National Conference of Bar Examiners recently published its preliminary Content Scope Outlines for the next generation of the bar...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Apr 3, 20227 min read
The ABCs of: the First Amendment
Here is a collection of 26 important concepts, from A to Z, you need to know about the First Amendment for the bar exam: A – Alternative...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Mar 20, 20226 min read
Don't Let Missed Questions Bother You on Exam Day
Last year around this time, Dustin Johnson was the best professional golfer in the world. If you don’t follow golf, or know who Dustin...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Feb 7, 20222 min read
“Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”
I woke up this morning to the news of Meat Loaf having passed away. The legendary rock singer whose “Bat Out of Hell” album became one of...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jan 21, 20223 min read
Refocusing on Questioning the Question to Help with Essay Timing
If you’re having issues with completing essay questions on time (as some of y’all on the MEE 1 assignment did), rely on the systematic...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Jan 2, 20225 min read
What Goes Up Must Come Down (But Will You Know About It?)
On September 9, 2019, the National Conference of Bar Examiners posted an announcement on its website that the July 2019 scaled MBE mean...
Tommy Sangchompuphen
Apr 18, 20202 min read