Every Learner is Different. BARBRI Bar Prep Meets Your Students Where They Are.
Whether you have students taking the legacy UBE exam, the NextGen UBE exam, or both, our newly established and effective course pedagogy makes it easier for you to support students taking the exam across different jurisdictions.
Both our legacy UBE and NextGen UBE bar review courses are intentionally designed for adult online learners, leveraging research-based learning design, the latest advancements in educational technology, and adaptive learning to provide students with an unparalleled, dynamic learning experience and strong outcomes.
New Scaffolded Pedagogy and Instructional Videos
The scaffolded approach to our courses incorporates a spiral instructional design that helps learners build knowledge and skills and gain confidence. Students approach their bar prep in three phrases with practice questions throughout.
Foundations Episodes Present Key Concepts in Each Subject
Leveraging the learning power of story-driven instructions, students are introduced to core legal concepts with our Foundations Episodes. These are animated explainer videos that teach foundational concepts through the power of stories with a recurring cast of characters in realistic legal scenarios.
Deep Dive Lectures and Practice Materials Build on that Foundation
After building this foundation, students take a deep dive into short lectures, presented by BARBRI’s popular and effective faculty lecturers. Infused with a scenario-based learning approach, these lectures, along with the practice sets and questions layered throughout, mirror the style, scope, and format of each exam.
Final Review Focuses on Most Important Material
- Legacy UBE: Students then move on to the final review focused on recapping the most important and highly tested concepts.
- NextGen UBE: Students then move into a final review focused on recapping the topics starred by the NCBE for memorization.
Additional practice questions are assigned in both courses to continue building competence and confidence.
New Text Resources
Redesigned text resources aid course navigation, drive engagement, and reinforce learning — all enabling better outcomes. New digital text delivery with VitalSource™ is optimized for mobile or desktop and provides an improved digital bookshelf experience with notetaking, highlighting, text-to-speech functionality, and an embedded flashcard creator.
The Course Companion
Allows students to acquire substantive knowledge in a flexible manner to suit their individual needs — either by using the Course Companion alongside the Deep Dive Lectures or as a standalone text, actively working through the problems as they read.
- Contains all the information students need to know in each subject
- Presents substantive content in a clear, accessible way, with examples and hypotheticals throughout
The CMR: A Score Maximizer
The Conviser Mini-Review (CMR Max) conveys key concepts and skills in a concise, visual, and accessible way. Designed specifically for final review, it includes everything students need to review in the final weeks of study.
- Features exam tips, rapid review summaries, hot topics, and charts
- Provides a capstone to scaffolded pedagogy alongside final review lecture
Personalized Bar Prep and Trusted Support for Every Learning Style
BARBRI bar review provides students with a deeply personalized approach to their bar preparation, features that support every learning style, and trusted support every step of the way.
Our proprietary Personalized Study Plan enables students to create a customized calendar and automatically adjust their daily schedule and assignments based on performance.
Leveraging the power of adaptive learning to help them focus their prep on areas of opportunity to maximize their time
Our team of experts are there every step of the way, including attorney support and 24/7 technical support
Early course access provides students with up to four months of full access to all BARBRI assignments and materials
Bar Coaching provides personalized support with small group coaching led by a bar coach expert.
New Assessment Platform with Self-Evaluation
- Answer Essays and Performance Tests for Legacy UBE prep
- Answer Integrated Item Sets and draft answers to Performance Tasks for NextGen UBE prep
- Access a self-grading feature with BARBRI rubrics and answers enabling effective self-directed review
- Get streamlined feedback with seamless in-app answer submissions connected to BARBRI grading system
Simulated Exam on BARBRI’s Platform Drafted by BARBRI Experts
- The BARBRI Simulated MBE for Legacy UBE prep provides a full day, 200 question simulated MBE exam
- The BARBRI Simulated NextGen Exam mirrors the NextGen online exam-taking experience and is aligned with NCBE-drafted content. It is completed over 9 hours and consists of three Simulated Exam Sections that each include:
- 40 MCQs with machine grading, plus 2 Integrated Sets, and 1 Performance Task graded by BARBRI
- A full expert-led review and analysis lecture of each section to maximize learning and improvement
- Student performance on our simulated exams establishes their BARBRI Pass Predictor report and contributes to their subject-level Strength Scores, allowing their course to adapt their abilities in real time.
BARBRI’s NextGen UBE Course
While we’ve intentionally aligned our NextGen course with the established and effective pedagogy of our Legacy UBE course, we have designed the NextGen course to fully align to the NextGen content scope. We have:
- Restructured written materials to consistently indicate depth of knowledge required
- Developed all new NextGen assessment questions, including NCBE released NextGen question sets
- Created unique skills instruction modules that use a scenario-based learning approach designed to align with how students will answer questions on the NextGen exam.
New Immersive and Interactive Skills Scenarios to Master NextGen Question Sets
New skills instruction and assessment pedagogy designed for online adult learners leverages the power of contextual learning through scenarios — placing instruction and practice directly in the context of the NextGen exam.
Students are first introduced to the tested skills needed in short, instructional videos presented by engaging faculty experts. Students then apply what they learned in three phases.
Immersive Client Scenarios
We bring the legal scenario to life by placing the student in the role of an associate working through an assignment at a fictious law firm, where they will learn and practice the foundation skills tested on the NextGen bar exam. These include issue spotting and analysis, investigation and evaluation, client counseling and advising, client relationship and management, dispute resolution, and legal research, writing and drafting.
Interactive Question Sets
Students then work through our unique integrated question sets that reinforce substantive knowledge and skills with unfolding problems, matching how they’ll be tested on exam day.
Expert Instruction
Students remain immersed in the scenario through detailed feedback from a law partner.
This context-based learning approach immerses the learner in real-world legal scenarios, backed by adult learning theory as a way to help adult students master complex topics, learn how to apply the assessed skills, and further develop their critical reasoning skills for the NextGen exam.
NCBE Licensed Questions
We’ve partnered with the NCBE to integrate four sets of NCBE-licensed content into our NextGen Bar Review course, continuing our commitment to provide the most authentic and effective preparation for NextGen bar exam success. Each of these four sets will consist of 40 MCQs, 2 Integrated Question Sets, and 1 Performance Task.
Three sets are strategically integrated throughout the course reinforcing knowledge and skills as student progress and ensuring students practice with exam-relevant content.
Students will access the fourth licensed NextGen question set directly from the NCBE platform. This fourth and final set will serve as the Final Prep Exam assigned during the final review portion of the course. This experience allows students to apply their knowledge in a timed, exam-like setting directly inside the NCBE bar exam platform, eliminating the uncertainty of encountering a new system on exam day so they can focus on performing their best.
Primer Videos for Family Law, Trusts + Estates, and Professional Responsibility
Although Family Law and Trusts & Estates will not be directly tested on the NextGen Exam, concepts in these subjects will appear in Performance Tasks and may be included in Integrated Sets. Specific Professional Responsibility rules, while not considered a Core Concept, will appear in Integrated Sets.
The animated narrative storytelling in the Primer Videos gives students the framework needed to tackle exam questions in these subjects efficiently.