[blindLaw] The perennial bar prep question. (Cerridwyn Nordstrom)

Caleb E. Smith ces2266 at columbia.edu
Tue Nov 15 05:34:56 UTC 2022


I agree with everything above about Themis.  Absolutely fantastic

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:31 AM Cerridwyn Nordstrom via BlindLaw <
blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Maura,
>
> I just took the bar in July of this year. For bar prep I did Themis and
> added on adaptibar. To me, Themis was basically ideal. I worked with their
> accessibility team and they were super helpful and I didn't have any
> massive accessibility issues while using their program. On top of that, a
> big difference between Themis and Barbri from a more general lens is how
> they present the material. Themis breaks their lectures and problem sets
> down into shorter sections (like 15-20 minutes) whereas Barbri covers whole
> topics in long videos that cover everything at once. I personally do better
> with shorter lectures, so this was a big perk for me.
>
> I originally also got adaptibar specifically for their MBE sets, because I
> had multiple people recommend it. However, Themis now has access to Uworld
> which provides 1000s of real MBE sets, so I didn't use adaptibar as much.
>
> As an aside, if you use reddit at all, I have found the r/barexam forum
> really really helpful as someone going through the bar exam. From that
> reddit, I know a lot of people had massive tech issues with Barbri this
> time around (the program going down or Barbri doing multi day updates
> during the bar prep season). Overall I was glad I chose Themis.
>
> I am happy to talk more about this over private messages as well, but I
> hope that helps.
>
> Take care,
>
> *Cerridwyn Nordstrom* (She, her, hers)
>
> *“‘No’ has fueled many a revolution.”*
>                                                       - Cheryl Marie Wade
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