UC Berkeley School of Law
All students of UC Berkeley School of Law are eligible to sign up for a
free account on BarEssays.com, paid for by a very generous donation to
the Law School by UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall Alumni. The account will expire
on August 1, 2012.
In order to obtain your free UC Berkeley account:
- After reading through the rest of this page,
click here and then click on “Sign Up”
- Go through the first three steps of the sign-up process
(accept terms of use, fill out name/password).
You must sign up using your Boalt Hall e-mail account to be eligible.
- When you reach the payment screen, ignore it and sign out
of your account.
- BarEssays.com will activate your account as soon as
we verify your UC Berkeley enrollment and class year
(usually within 24 hours).
Information About BarEssays.com for Boalt Hall Law Students
What is BarEssays.com?
BarEssays.com is a unique and invaluable study tool. We provide a database of 800+ graded essays from past California Bar Examinations including both high and low scoring essay answers to more than 60 different essay questions covering 14 legal subjects.
In addition to the Essay Database, you will receive access to the BarEssays.com Short Review Outlines and Checklists. These clear and easy-to-understand outlines and checklists serve as a fantastic tool to help you understand and review key elements of each subject.
The subjects covered by the BarEssays.com essay and outline databases include:
Multistate Subjects:
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Real Property
- Torts
California-Specific Subjects:
- Corporations/Business Associations
- Civil Procedure
- Community Property
- Corporations
- Professional Responsibility
- Remedies
- Trusts
- Wills and Succession
How can BarEssays.com help first and second year law students?
Lawyers and law school graduates very often recommend that first-year law students obtain and utilize bar exam study materials. Why?
The bar exam and the first year of law school have a lot in common. The bar exam tests the same first-year law school legal subjects, requires the same IRAC writing style, and provides similar timed (and stressful) testing conditions that you will have during your first-year final exams.
BarEssays.com believes in the power of learning by example – i.e. a key to succeeding on written legal exams is proper knowledge about what it takes to receive a high score. We provide you with hundreds of both high scoring and low scoring essays, handwritten and typed. You will see what you need to do, and what to avoid, to receive high scores on essay exams.
And, in addition to facilitating your law school studies, your account on BarEssays.com will give you a major jump-start on your preparation for the California Bar Exam.
What is the best way to use BarEssays.com?
BarEssays.com recommends that you write as many essay exams as possible. That is, print out an essay, time yourself for one hour, and write it out. After simulating your essay, search our database to look at high and low scoring essays to compare your essay to our graded examples. Learn from the mistakes on the low scoring essays. Emulate the positive aspects of the high scoring essays. The more essays you practice, the more essays you review, the better you will become at essay writing.