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BARBRI Bar Review Ultimate Pass overview & features
Ultimate Pass is the best BARBRI Bar Review course for those who are looking for the most features during bar review, plus post-bar exam professional development. It provides a balance of structure and guidance as well as the flexibility to do some or all of the course online, on-demand.
Key course features include lectures in-class or broadcast with Q&A, unlimited expert graded essays, access to hundreds of NCBE released questions, a hard copy book set, a tablet, plus an unlimited number of online retakes should you need them. You also receive access to supplemental Mini MBA and e-discovery courses for post-bar exam professional development.
Students in BARBRI Bar Review Ultimate Pass will study full-time, approximately 40 hours each week over 8-10 weeks leading into the July or February bar exam. The specific days and time of study throughout the week are flexible based on when and where you study best.
Course materials are available to study for any U.S. jurisdiction, including the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE).
Your online, personalized study schedule
Your PSP is your online, personalized study schedule that adapts to you throughout your BARBRI Bar Review course. In other words, it's your personalized bar prep "to-do" list.
Your PSP is where you'll see what's due, what's coming, what you've already done. You'll also access your assignments, lectures, practice question sets and workshops, and submit practice essays and more through your PSP.
Your PSP is run by an engine called ISAAC, your Intuitive Study Assistant And Coach. Everything ISAAC assigns is statistically correlated to passing your bar exam. ISAAC first focuses your study on what's most likely to be tested on your exam. As you progress, ISAAC recalibrates your PSP as it learns from you, and re-prioritizes assignments based on how much time is left between you and your exam and what's most important to passing your bar exam.
Know exactly how you're doing at every step
The Progress Center in your PSP shows you exactly where you stand at every step throughout your BARBRI Bar Review course. You'll always know how much you've completed and if you're staying on track.
You'll also see how you're doing, by subject, compared to the rest of the students who are studying with BARBRI for your bar exam. Since the majority of law school graduates study with BARBRI every administration, this means that you'll know how you're doing compared to the majority of people who will be taking your same bar exam throughout your entire bar preparation.
This is invaluable insight that will help ensure you are doing well enough, in enough areas, to ultimately pass your exam. And insight you can only get with BARBRI.
Learn from the top names in U.S. legal education
Erwin Chemerinsky, Rich Freer, Paula Franzese, Doug Moll, Steve Calandrillo, just to name a few. Your BARBRI instructors are experts at breaking down the law and distilling what you need to know to pass your bar exam.
All lectures are available on-demand, online or via mobile, for all BARBRI Bar Review options. On-demand lectures are divided into segments to allow you to watch an entire subject straight through and / or revisit specific subjects and subtopics throughout your course. Additionally, you may enable or disable closed captioning at any time for on-demand lectures.
In addition to lectures on-demand, with select packages, you may also elect to attend broadcast lectures that offer live Q&A and / or watch lectures in a classroom setting, as available.
However you learn best, you'll get the same outstanding lectures and content from the same renowned U.S. law professors.
Superior written materials
BARBRI is known for superior written materials. All BARBRI Bar Review courses offer digital access to expert-written materials. Ultimate Pass also offers a full set of hard copy materials prior to the start of your bar prep course.
The digital and hard copy materials are assigned and work hand-in-hand with your online PSP.
Begin personalizing your bar studies before your course even begins
Bar Review Baseline provides a personalized knowledge measure before you start studying for the bar. You'll see how you compare to thousands of bar takers nationwide.
Using the score report, you'll be able to note subjects in which you already have strengths compared to the rest of your peers and you'll note the subjects that need the most work. This allows you to focus on your opportunity areas to make big gains as you move forward into bar prep.
More importantly, Baseline gives ISAAC a head start on customizing your BARBRI Bar Review course. Instead of waiting to learn more about you as you work through the BARBRI Bar Review course, ISAAC will use your Baseline insights to deliver the most customized bar review experience available from day one. Nothing compares.
*Bar Review Baseline is not available for Louisiana, as Louisiana does not administer the MBE.
Statistically increases your chances of passing
Data scientists have found the BARBRI Simulated MBE to be one of the most powerful and significant experiences in preparing to pass the bar exam. The simulation, held several weeks prior to your actual exam, exposes you to the mental and physical rigors of the Multistate Bar Exam so you know what to expect on exam day. Just having this experience statistically increases your chances of passing your bar exam.
Additionally, since the majority of law school graduates study with BARBRI every administration, only your Pass Predictor score report tells you where you sit on the bar exam curve, in every subject AND subtopic, before the actual exam. This helps focus your remaining final weeks of study exactly where it will most benefit your score. You can only get this level of insight with BARBRI.
Following your BARBRI Simulated MBE, the Ultimate Pass course option also provides a customized report as well as one private coaching session. The customized report is a personalized, prescriptive report based on your specific combination of strengths and weaknesses. The follow-up coaching session provides you the opportunity to work 1:1 for an hour with a BARBRI expert on your personal plan of action.
*The Simulated MBE is not available for Louisiana, as Louisiana does not administer the MBE.
Incrementally build knowledge & accelerate learning
ISAAC curates more than 2,500 multiple-choice learning and practice questions that incrementally build knowledge and skills throughout your BARBRI course.
ISAAC first builds a strong framework with easier multiple-choice questions that test core rules and concepts. As you progress, more difficult and mixed-subject practice questions are layered in. ISAAC focuses more heavily on areas of law you'll most likely see on the exam. It also deliberately interleaves practice between subjects and leverages spaced repetition. This entire process is scientifically shown to boost learning and retention.
With Ultimate Pass, you'll also experience an MBE Final Prep* comprised of 100 MBE questions recently released by the NCBE. The 100 questions have been carefully selected by BARBRI experts to align with the areas of the law that are most likely to be tested on your exam, so you continue to focus on the areas that matter most while being exposed to "real" MBE questions.
All BARBRI multiple-choice learning and practice questions plus the NCBE released questions include explanatory answers written by BARBRI subject matter experts. Explanatory answers help you understand why answer options were correct or incorrect, so you continue to learn and build knowledge from each multiple-choice question you encounter.
*MBE Final Prep is not available for Louisiana, as Louisiana does not administer the MBE.
Immediate feedback to quickly build exam writing skills
The written portions of the bar exam are very important to your overall exam score in every state. Essay writing is very different from writing essays for law school, and there are new skills you must acquire and strengthen during bar prep.
Essay Architect is the first of three major activities included in an overall essay writing methodology called BARBRI Directed Essay Grading.
Our exclusive Essay Architect takes you through a series of online steps to learn to critically read bar exam questions, enhance the speed of your essay writing and construct strong, winning answers. Essay Architect provides immediate feedback to build your essay writing skills quickly.
Self-analysis to advance essay writing skills
The second of three major activities included in an overall essay writing methodology called BARBRI Directed Essay Grading is writing and self-analysis.
You'll write answers to assigned practice essays. You will then analyze your essay by comparing your answer to model answers or score sheets. This active self-review is one of the most impactful things you can do to build your bar exam essay writing skills.
You will have access to 100 past bar exam essays for review and self-grading.
Feedback from bar exam writing experts
The third and final major activity included in an overall essay writing methodology called BARBRI Directed Essay Grading is submitting essays for expert feedback and grading.
After working with Essay Architect online and self-analyzing written essays, you will submit essays for personalized, expert feedback. BARBRI trained bar exam writing experts will provide individual feedback that will help you understand where you will capture points, where you may lose points and how to frame a better essay answer.
You'll incorporate the feedback into future essay submissions, moving you along an upward trajectory of continuous bar exam writing improvement.
Accelerate your learning with skills workshops
Several skills workshops are offered throughout your BARBRI Bar Review course covering topics such as essay writing, performance tests and MBE skills. All provide a problem-solving methodology and framework that accelerates your learning and the pace at which you successfully answer bar exam questions.
Work bar prep assignments on the go
Download and Sign In to the BARBRI Study Plan app to stream or download lectures, work practice questions and more.
The BARBRI Study Plan app is available for iOS and Android devices as part of BARBRI Bar Review. Search "BARBRI Study Plan" in the App Store or Google Play and Sign In with your active BARBRI account information.
Learn and master rules and elements
The BARBRI LawMaster Study Keys app helps you move beyond mere memorization into actual learning and mastery. The LawMaster Study Keys app brings together rules, the elements that comprise the rule AND a story to apply to those rules and elements. Connecting rules to elements and a story is the key to really learning and mastering the law.
The LawMaster Study Keys App is available for iOS and Android devices as part of BARBRI Bar Review. Search "BARBRI LawMaster Study Keys" in the App Store or Google Play and Sign In with your active BARBRI account information.
Online, self-directed pre-course
Get online access to Early Start months before your bar review course begins. BARBRI Early Start is on-demand, self-directed and focuses on the 25 most frequently tested bar exam subtopics. Expert lectures, outlines and multiple-choice learning and practice questions will bolster your overall substantive knowledge. Also work with Essay Architect during Early Start to learn to construct a strong bar exam essay, which you can also submit for personalized feedback.
Spending 24 total study hours in Early Start before the start of your BARBRI Bar Review course statistically increases your chance of passing the bar exam the first time.
Support for tough law school subjects
Online, on-demand 2L/3L Mastery provides expert outlines, lectures and practice questions for law school courses including: Constitutional Law, Corporations, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Family Law, Secured Transactions, Taxation, Wills & Trusts.
Support at every step
At every step, you have access to attorneys who know your state's bar exam inside and out. They're ready to answer your questions about the law, the course or the exam. Your success is their top priority.
Reassurance if you need a second chance
BARBRI Bar Review has been developed, designed and optimized to make sure you pass the bar exam the first time. We also know though that sometimes life gets in the way, or the day doesn't go like you planned - and you need a second chance.
With Ultimate Pass:
If you do not pass your state's bar exam, the BARBRI Guarantee allows you to repeat that same course, for the same state, as many times as you would like. Additionally, BARBRI will reimburse you for your repeat taker exam fees up to $500.
Access to hundreds of NCBE released questions
With select courses, get access to Multistate Edge, which contains hundreds of NCBE released questions. Every question includes comprehensive answer explanations. It also includes exclusive final review lectures.
A Tablet (Wi-Fi 256GB) is included with your Ultimate Pass enrollment, making it easy to access your BARBRI Bar Review Personal Study Plan anywhere with WiFi.
Connecting with potential employers
The BARBRI Job Network connects legal talent with a rich network of legal employers, such as BigLaw firms, government agencies, courts and nonprofits offering meaningful clerkship, fellowship and employment opportunities.
With Ultimate Pass, create a premium talent listing on the Job Network.
Professional development created for lawyers
The BARBRI Mini MBA for lawyers offers an overview of finance and accounting, and relates these concepts to a broad array of practice areas. The six-part course progresses in order of difficulty, beginning with basic elements of accounting and concluding with more advanced concepts in finance.
Course sections include:
- Financial statements
- Financial analysis
- Issues in financial reporting
- Corporate finance
- Valuation
- Securities
Access to this course will be provided to you separately from your bar prep enrollment and will be available for one year from the time you receive access.
eDiscovery Executive Certificate Program (eDEX)
The eDiscovery Executive Certificate Program (eDEx) provides foundational knowledge in e-discovery through an on-demand basic training program. The course covers e-discovery best practices, project management, budgeting analytics and related topics, and concludes with a self-administered final exam that validates your master of the material.
Access to this course will be provided to you separately from your bar prep enrollment and will be available for one year from the time you receive access.
BARBRI Bar Review Ultimate Pass Guarantee
If you do not pass your state's bar exam, the BARBRI Guarantee allows you to repeat that same course, for the same state, as many times as you would like. Additionally, BARBRI will reimburse you for your repeat taker exam fees up to $500.
BARBRI equals more points on exam day
We've spent our entire history perfecting bar exam prep courses and materials. We constantly collect and analyze data to help us develop the methods and tools that allow our students to score higher on the bar exam than other students. In fact, studies show that BARBRI students score up to 25 more points than non-BARBRI students on exam day. This 'BARBRI cushion' has provided an added boost of confidence to the 1.3 million licensed attorneys who have passed the bar with our help.
What makes BARBRI better? (Hint: It's you)
For over 50 years, BARBRI has been the gold standard in bar exam prep. And, while much has changed over that time, the sole reason for our success is this single constant: Our focus on helping you pass the bar and get on with the noble purpose of being a lawyer.
BARBRI. Because passing the bar is everything.
Frequently asked questions
CREDIT CARDS OR CHECKS: BARBRI accepts American Express, MasterCard, Discover and VISA. Debit/check cards may be declined unless the transaction is pre-authorized by your financial institution.
Personal checks, bank checks and money orders are also accepted. If paying by check, please write your BARBRI ID number in the memo line and mail to: BARBRI, 12222 Merit Drive Suite 1340, Dallas, TX 75251.
AFFIRM FINANCING: Many BARBRI Bar Review options allow you to finance with Affirm during or after enrollment to create easy, fixed monthly payments over 3, 6 or 12 months.
The interest rate (0-30% APR) and term options (3, 6 or 12 months) you are offered is based on the tuition type you are choosing and on a credit check. You can check your eligibility during enrollment and it will not impact your credit score - provide some basic information and get a real-time decision to split your purchase into 3, 6, or 12 monthly payments at 0-30% APR.
If you Finance with Affirm during enrollment, you can include any initially required BARBRI down payments in your loan. Or, you can make the minimum required payment toward your BARBRI tuition at the time of enrollment via your preferred payment method and finance the remainder with Affirm at a later date from your account.
Once you Finance with Affirm, you will begin making payments immediately to Affirm, but the entire balance of your tuition does not need to be paid prior to your course starting or ending.
When you finance, a down payment may be required and Affirm loans are made by Cross River Bank, a New Jersey state-chartered bank, Member FDIC. Learn more about Financing with Affirm.
INSTALLMENT PLAN: You can create an interest-free, custom installment payment plan when you pay with a debit or credit card. Pay your initial required BARBRI down payment (depending on the course you're selecting) and then split up the remainder of your tuition payments over time.
A custom installment payment plan is not a loan - no credit check is required and no interest is applied.
If you create a custom installment plan for a summer bar review course, your total tuition must be paid in full by June 15. If you create a custom installment plan for a winter bar review course, your total tuition must be paid in full by January 15.
If you already have a BARBRI Bar Review account, you can set up an installment plan through My Account - Payment options.
BARBRI has a direct billing relationship with over 1,000 law firms. Once your law firm has communicated to you that they will pay directly for your bar review course, select the law firm you would like us to invoice at checkout.
Once you have requested that BARBRI directly bill a law firm for your bar review course, the selected firm will receive an invoice for your balance due (tuition and tax). Some firms will pay for the shipping fee and refundable book deposit. If your firm does not, you will be billed separately for those fees.
Your firm must establish an account with BARBRI and pay your tuition before the course begins or you will be responsible for payment in full.
Cancel within five days from enrollment
For all BARBRI Bar Review courses, you may cancel your enrollment before 12:00 AM (CDT) on the 5th business day following your enrollment by delivering a written request for cancellation to service@barbri.com and receive a full refund of all payments made less any promotional gift cards received (if any), as long as physical bar review materials have not been received, or bar review course online access has not been provided.
Cancel after five days from enrollment
If physical bar review materials have not been received, or bar review course online access has not been provided, you may cancel your enrollment and receive a refund of all monies paid less your non-refundable registration fee and any promotional gift cards received, if any, by delivering a written request for cancellation to service@barbri.com. You may not cancel your enrollment once physical bar review materials have been received or course online access has been provided.
Please carefully review the Contract Details & Requirements prior to enrollment.
Your BARBRI Bar Review Personal Study Plan (PSP) will be available in mid April for the summer bar review course and in mid November for the winter course. You will receive an email communication when your PSP has been activated.
Once you have access, you will be able to see all assignments available to you for the entire course.
The course lasts 8-10 weeks, and the average student should expect to spend about 40 hours per week studying. Each week, you may study the specific days, hours per day, and time of day that work best for your schedule.
As location options are determined and schedules become available for your bar exam year and session, you can find them on the Locations & Schedules page on BARBRI.com.
- General location information typically becomes available in September for the following winter and summer BARBRI Bar Review courses.
- As specific location information becomes available and schedules are finalized, they are updated on the Locations & Schedules.
We recommend you bookmark the Locations & Schedules page and refer back often as your course session nears.
Yes, if you select a classroom location, you still have access to all lectures online, on-demand to watch or re-watch.
Whether attending a classroom location or watching lectures online, you will get the same efficient and effective lectures and content delivered by renowned U.S. law professors.
The BARBRI Bar Review course is very flexible in terms of allowing you to study when and where you study best over the 8-10 weeks during which the course is assigning work. Whether you are an early bird or a night owl, BARBRI is ready to go when you are.
Your BARBRI Personal Study Plan (PSP) adjusts to you as you work. Your PSP is driven by an engine called ISAAC, your intuitive study assistant and coach, that knows what is most likely to be tested on the exam (what's most important) and it gets to know you. If you spend less time studying one day, ISAAC adjusts your PSP and reassigns recommended assignments to ensure you are always focused on the most impactful assignments to get you the most points on your bar exam.
While your study time, days and location are extremely flexible, studying for the bar exam requires time and commitment. It should be treated like a full-time job. You should plan on spending approximately 40 hours per week over 8-10 weeks studying for the bar exam.
Absolutely! We highly recommend it.
Beginning around September for the following winter and summer BARBRI Bar Review course, you can start working with BARBRI Early Start. Early Start is all online, entirely self-directed and focuses on the 25 most frequently tested bar exam subtopics. Investing just 24 hours before the start of your BARBRI Bar Review course is the best way to increase your chances of passing the bar exam the first time. Just Sign In to your account to get started.
Also, before your bar review course opens, we encourage you to complete the Bar Review Baseline - the fastest way to personalize your BARBRI course. Here's how:
- Sign In and take the 2-hour Baseline assessment.
- Answer all 70 questions in one session or a few at a time (we recommend one session, if possible).
- Before bar review begins, you will receive your personalized Baseline study report.
- ISAAC - the engine that drives your BARBRI Bar Review Personal Study Plan - will also use the insights to customize your summer bar review course assignments.
A 128GB WiFi iPad is included with your Ultimate Pass enrollment, making it easy to access your BARBRI Bar Review Personal Study Plan anywhere with WiFi.
You will receive an email to request your iPad once one of the following requirements have been met:
- You have paid at least $1,000 toward your course tuition and are enrolled in a monthly installment plan to pay the remainder of your tuition in full by January 15 for the Feb. exam or June 15 for the July exam
- You have either financed your course tuition with Affirm or have paid your account in full
- A employer or third-party has confirmed that they are paying your tuition
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Explore other BARBRI bar prep options
Still having trouble deciding which BARBRI course is for you? BARBRI has bar prep options to fit every type of learner. Want to study over 6 or 10-months? Want 100% online BARBRI Bar Review course for less? Want more features, guidance and extra reassurance? Going into public interest and looking for a scholarship? Billing your firm?
We have BARBRI bar prep options that fit your needs and your learning style.
Traditional Bar Review
Full-time course | 8-10 week
Candidates with a J.D. from a U.S. law school looking for the quickest, most efficient & effective course to pass any U.S. state bar exam
Extended Bar Prep
Part-time course | 6- or 10-month
Best for candidates without a J.D. from a U.S. law school looking for the most comprehensive bar prep or students who want more study time & flexibility
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