Frequently Asked Questions
In which jurisdictions do you offer courses?
Currently, T School offers a course for the California Bar Exam. However, many of the resources within the course can be used to prepare for the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) and other jurisdictions’ exams. If you are considering using T School’s materials to help prepare for the UBE or a different state exam, please email Tara Shah at tara@tschool.law to further discuss what resources within the course are applicable to your bar exam. Tara has worked with many students taking the UBE and other examinations outside of California to help them successfully pass, and she is happy to do a complimentary consultation with you to discuss T School, private tutoring, or just general advice relevant to your exam.
Can I do both a commercial course such as Barbri or Themis and T School?
Yes, you can do a commercial course and T School at the same time. One option is to follow the schedule for the commercial course and use T School’s lectures and materials as a supplemental resource. Alternatively, you may follow T School’s study schedule and use the lectures and materials from the commercial course as a supplemental resource. Please feel free to email Tara Shah at tara@tschool.law to set up a time to discuss the best course of action for you and how you may best integrate multiple courses in your bar preparation.
Does T school provide coverage for all components of the bar exam?
Yes, T School provides 40+ lectures and a variety of materials, including outlines, lecture handouts, study aids, and practice essay and performance tests to prepare you for the essay and performance test portions of the exam. In addition, T School is an affiliate of UWorld, which allows us to give you a unique discount code to receive their popular MBE software program at a special reduced rate. With UWorld’s proven, active-learning approach you will have all that you need to pass the MBE. UWorld’s QBank is a robust question-based learning tool that eliminates the anxiety from bar exam preparation. Featuring distinctive explanations for correct and incorrect answers, their platform helps you master difficult legal principles and reasoning to analyze MBE fact patterns. Understanding the “why” for each answer prepares you for any question on that subject, boosting your confidence on exam day.
T School’s daily study schedule will integrate assigned multiple choice question sets from UWorld. Once you have registered for T School, will receive your unique discount code to apply towards the purchase of their MBE program.
What differentiates T School from other tutoring services and courses?
The T School course is designed with your success in mind with essay and performance test workshops that will get you writing like a boss, outlines and handouts, on-the-go features for when life happens, a detailed daily study plan, study aids to help you drill down the frequently tested topics, and a little TLC for the mind and body with the T School yoga and meditation study breaks. Our big budget course offered at a low cost, flexibility to add-on private tutoring and graded assignments to personalize your experience, and our unique inclusion of mindfulness modules sets T School apart from all the other tutoring services and courses.
Does the T school course include graded assignments and private tutoring?
The course comes complete with over 40 video lectures, 40+ handouts, memorization study aids, 42+ practice essay and performance tests with self-grading rubrics and model answers, mindfulness study breaks consisting of power meditation and relaxing yoga modules, and a daily study schedule. Graded essays and performance tests and one-on-one private tutoring sessions are available for additional purchase. Please email us at info@tschool.lawif you are interested in purchasing graded assignments and tutoring sessions.
Does T School include MBE software?
T School is an affiliate of UWorld, which allows us to give you a unique discount code that allows you to receive their popular MBE software program at a special reduced rate. Thus, there is an additional fee for the software, but it is at a reduced rate. T School will provide you with the discount code once you register for our course, and then you may use the code to register directly with UWorld. With UWorld’s proven, active-learning approach you will have all that you need to pass the MBE. UWorld’s QBank is a robust question-based learning tool that eliminates the anxiety from bar exam preparation. Featuring distinctive explanations for correct and incorrect answers, their platform helps you master difficult legal principles and reasoning to analyze MBE fact patterns. Understanding the “why” for each answer prepares you for any question on that subject, boosting your confidence on exam day. T School’s daily study schedule will integrate assigned multiple choice question sets from UWorld.
What if I want to use a different MBE software for my preparation? Can I still use the T school course?
Absolutely! You can easily substitute the MBE assignments that are built into the T School study schedule with MBE sets from the software of your choosing.
What if I sign up for the course and then subsequently withdraw from the bar exam, is there a refund policy?
You may cancel your enrollment with T School at any time by sending written notice of your cancellation to info@tschool.law. If you cancel before the availability of online bar review course content, you are entitled to a refund less any non-refundable payment, shipping fees, and applicable taxes. T School cannot give you a refund for UWorld MBE software. UWorld is a separate entity, and thus you are subject to their refund policy.
Your cancellation of the T School course does not cancel your UWorld course. You must follow their cancellation requirements to cancel the UWorld course.
May I postpone my course to a different bar exam?
You may postpone your course to the next bar examination term provided you have not completed more than 10% of the course and have not downloaded more than 10% of the course materials.
If I need help during the course, does T School offer a support system?
Absolutely! We understand that this can be a stressful time and how important it is to be available to students. Anytime you have questions or need support, please email us at info@tschool.law. Someone from T School will get back to you as soon as possible either via phone or email during regular business hours. If it is urgent, we will make all attempts to contact you as soon as it is reasonably possible. We are here for you!
Does the course come with sample study schedules?
Yes! To help keep you on track and focused, the course includes a daily study schedule that seamlessly integrates all of the course resources and assignments into one place. With different types of schedules to choose from, you will find a plan that works for you. We currently offer a full-time study plan, part-time study plan for working students, early bird plan for those who want to get ahead with a pre-bar course, and the extended study plan for foreign attorneys
How does the course work?
To help keep you on track, the course includes a daily study schedule that seamlessly integrates all of the course resources and assignments into one place. The course includes lectures; essay, performance test, and MBE assignments; and handouts. The schedule will integrate the use of all of these materials and assignments so that you know what to do from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed.
Do you include hardcopy materials?
You will be able to download outlines, handouts, and other materials directly from the online course. We do not mail any hardcopy materials. However, all outlines and handouts are available to download and print.
Do you offer any discounts?
T School was designed to be a big budget course at a low, wallet-friendly price, and we feel we have accomplished that. However, if you are going through a financially difficult time and are in need of financial assistance in the form of a discount or scholarship, please email us at info@tschool.law to inquire further.
We are proud to offer a $100 discount to active, reserve and retired military. Only one discount may be applied to each course enrollment.
What is the California Bar Exam Format?
The below information is provided to help you better understand the format of the California Bar Exam. This information is subject to change given circumstances such as COVID-19. For the most up-to-date information on the California Bar Exam format, you’re strongly encouraged to visit the California State Bar website: http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Admissions.
Subjects Tested
MBE Subjects (no CA law is tested on the MBE)
Civil Procedure
Contracts and Sales
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Real Property
Torts
California Subjects (i.e., Essay Subjects)
Business Associations (Agency, Corporations, and Partnerships)
Civil Procedure (FRCP and CA)
Community Property (CA)
Contracts
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence (FRE and CA)
Professional Responsibility (ABA Model Rules and CA)
Real Property
Remedies
Torts
Trusts
Wills and Succession (CA)
Bar Exam Format
The California bar exam is a 2-day exam consisting of 5 essay questions, 1 California Performance Test, and the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), which consists of 200 multiple-choice questions.
Day 1
AM: 3 essay questions
PM: 2 essays and 1 California performance test
Day 2
AM: 100 MBE
PM: 100 MBE
California Essay Exam
The State Bar of California writes their own essay questions. (They are not Multistate Essay Exams.) The exam consists of 5 essay questions based on the following subjects: Business Associations (Agency, Corporations, and Partnerships), Civil Procedure (FRCP and CA), Community Property (CA), Contracts, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence (FRE and CA), Professional Responsibility (ABA and CA), Real Property, Remedies, Torts, Trust, and Wills and Succession (CA). Through T School’s Write Like a Boss – Essay Style modules and subject specific handouts, practice essays, Essay DNA video modules, and Essay MRI video modules, you will have the resources and confidence that you need to write a passing essay.
Value: Each essay is graded on a scale of 0 to 100 points, for a total of 500 raw points (5 essays x 100 points = 500 points). Each essay is graded in increments of 5 points. A score of 65 – 100 is considered a clear passing score, and a score of 60 and below is typically considered not passing. Your raw score from the 5 essays and from the California Performance Test are added together and then converted to a scaled score that is based on a 2000-point scale. The written exam (essays plus the performance test) is worth 50% of your overall bar exam scaled score.
California Performance Test
The California Performance test is a 90-minute skills-based exam. There is no law that you need to know going into the performance test. The exam is designed to test an applicant’s fundamental lawyering skills by applying law from a closed universe library to a file that contains all the specific facts that the applicant needs to know. The type of assignments that applicants may be required to draft vary and could include, but are not limited to, legal briefs, memorandum to the supervising attorney, letter to client, letter to opposing counsel, opening statement, closing argument, declaration, to name a few. Through T School’s Write Like a Boss – PT Style module and handout and the PT MRI video modules, you will have the resources that you need to write a passing performance test.
Value: The performance test is graded on a scale of 0 to 100 points. The score that you receive is then doubled for a total possible 200 points. A score of 65 – 100 is considered a clear passing score, and a score of 60 and below is typically considered not passing. Your raw score from the 5 essays and from the California Performance Test are added together and then converted to a scaled score that is based on a 2000-point scale. The written exam (essays plus the performance test) is worth 50% of your overall bar exam scaled score.
Multistate Bar Exam (MBE)
The MBE consists of 200 multiple choice questions that test the following areas: Civil Procedure, Contracts and Sales, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. You do not have to know California law for the MBE. Of the 200 questions, 175 are scored questions and 25 are unscored “pretest questions” that are blended in with the 200-question exam. Through T School’s affiliation with UWorld, you will get a special discount that will enable you to have access to their MBE software at your fingertips that will help you conquer the MBE.
Value: The MBE is worth a total of 175 raw points which is then converted to scaled score that is based on a 2000-point scale. The MBE is worth 50% of your overall bar exam scaled score.
